A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of carjacking after allegedly using a “ghost gun” to force an Uber driver out of his vehicle in Valley Center, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred about 10 p.m. Monday in the 16900 block of Eagle Way, where the teen requested a ride using the Uber app, according to Sheriff’s Sgt. Evan Sobczak.<\/p>\n
“When the Uber driver arrived, the male suspect produced a unserialized 9mm ‘ghost gun’ handgun, pointed it at the driver, and forced him out of the vehicle,” Sobczak said.<\/p>\n
The suspect then allegedly drove off in the victim’s car.<\/p>\n
With assistance from San Pasqual Tribal Police officers, deputies located the stolen vehicle unoccupied in the 16800 block of Kuttap Way, Sobczak said.<\/p>\n
A short time later, deputies detained a person matching the suspect description outside a nearby residence, Sobczak said.<\/p>\n
The victim later positively identified the juvenile as the suspect, Sobczak added.<\/p>\n
The teen was arrested on suspicion of carjacking and possession of an unserialized firearm and booked into Juvenile Hall, according to the sergeant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of carjacking after allegedly using a “ghost gun” to force…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75,56866],"class_list":{"0":"post-114833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-san-diego","9":"tag-san-diego-headlines","10":"tag-san-diego-news","11":"tag-valley-center"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}