{"id":158299,"date":"2026-01-31T19:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/158299\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:36:07","slug":"san-diego-carjacking-suspect-apprehended-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/158299\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego carjacking suspect Apprehended in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/San-Diego-Police-Cruiser.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/San-Diego-Police-Cruiser.jpg\" alt=\"San Diego Police cruiser\" class=\"wp-image-198527\"  \/><\/a>A San Diego Police cruiser at a crime scene. (Photo courtesy of SDPD<\/p>\n<p>A man suspected of a carjacking earlier Saturday in the North City neighborhood of San Diego was arrested in Yuma, AZ, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday, a man was filling his Lexus ES-300 with gas at 2750 Via De La Valle when another man brandishing a handgun approached him, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Police Department.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The suspect demanded the victim\u2019s car, wallet and cell phone, then drove away in the Lexus, police said, adding that the victim wasn\u2019t injured.<\/p>\n<p>Responding officers learned that the Lexus was located via tracking in Yuma. Authorities notified the Yuma Police Department and Arizona Highway Patrol, with the latter department attempting to stop the suspect, who fled, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The APD caught the suspect following a vehicle pursuit and took him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>The SDPD\u2019s Robbery Unit is investigating the case, and asked anyone with relevant information to call 619-531-2299 or Crime Stoppers at 888-580- 8477.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013City News Service<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Diego Police cruiser at a crime scene. (Photo courtesy of SDPD A man suspected of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1956,2040,27058,74,76,75,2131],"class_list":["post-158299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-arizona","tag-arrested","tag-carjacking","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-suspect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158299","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=158299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}