{"id":216114,"date":"2026-03-12T07:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216114\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:15:11","slug":"undocumented-man-who-assaulted-carjacked-oc-woman-arrested-doj-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216114\/","title":{"rendered":"Undocumented Man Who Assaulted, Carjacked OC Woman Arrested, DOJ Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORANGE COUNTY, CA \u2014 A twice-deported man from Mexico was federally charged with carjacking a restaurant employee in Orange County last month, the Department of Justice said in a statement. <\/p>\n

Fullerton resident Miguel Abrajan-Morales, 30 was charged in a federal criminal complaint<\/a> with carjacking. <\/p>\n

He is also charged in a separate federal criminal complaint with being undocumented in the United States following deportation or removal. <\/p>\n

Abrajan-Morales is currently in state custody at the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, authorities said. <\/p>\n

According to the federal complaint, on Feb. 27 two restaurant employees were leaving work in Placentia when one victim \u2014 later identified as Abrajan-Morales’s ex \u2014 walked to her Ford Bronco and sat in the driver’s seat. <\/p>\n

Unexpectedly, Abrajan-Morales opened and entered the car’s front passenger seat before striking her in the face several times, the complaint said. <\/p>\n

The victim fled from her car through the driver’s door and left the vehicle running on foot.<\/p>\n

The victim’s coworker was entering his vehicle and saw the assault, police said. He then ran toward the victim’s vehicle and began fighting Abrajan-Morales. <\/p>\n

After the fight, the suspect stole the victim’s Ford Bronco and drove away \u2014 nearly striking both employees with the car while he exited the parking lot. <\/p>\n

He was arrested on March 1 in Ontario, police said.<\/p>\n

If convicted, Abrajan-Morales would face a statutory maximum sentence of 15 years in federal prison on the carjacking charge and up to two years in federal prison on the illegal reentry charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, CA \u2014 A twice-deported man from Mexico was federally charged with carjacking a restaurant employee in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-216114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216114","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=216114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}