Search With Dogs, Officers Leads To Carjacking Arrest

ARLINGTON, VA — Arlington County Police arrested a South Carolina man in connection with a Monday evening carjacking that took place at a gas station near Four Mile Run, according to the daily crime report.

Officers were dispatched around 8:27 p.m., for the report of a carjacking at a gas station on S. Four Mile Run Drive at S. Walter Reed Drive. According to police, the female victim was pumping gas when a man approached her and demanded her vehicle. Taking the car, the suspect then fled into Fairfax County. ACPD broadcast a lookout to area law enforcement.

Around 9:03 p.m., the vehicle reentered Arlington on Columbia Pike, where police initially located it near the 5300 block of Columbia Pike. An officer attempted to intercept the vehicle, but the driver fled at a high rate of speed. Police later found the vehicle unoccupied in the 2600 block of S. Arlington Mill Drive. Following a perimeter search with officers and dogs, police found the suspect and took him into custody.

ACPD arrested Verdell Floyd, 19, of Columbia, South Carolina, and charged him with carjacking and eluding. He is being held without bond.