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One of two teenagers arrested in North 麻豆传媒映画this month after residents noticed them driving erratically in a quiet cul-de-sac has now been charged with robbery and use of an imitation firearm in connection with an alleged carjacking.
The second teen who was in the vehicle was also arrested by North 麻豆传媒映画RCMP but later released without charges.
Police across the Lower Mainland had been searching for the two suspects and a stolen car after a woman reported being carjacked at gunpoint near the University of British Columbia at the end of September.
Police said at the time of the incident the woman told officers she was returning to her car on the 10th floor of a parkade at UBC around 6:30 p.m. when two men approached her. One of the men produced a small handgun and demanded her keys, said police. The suspects then escaped in the woman鈥檚 car.
A week later, police said it was a phone call from a concerned citizen in North 麻豆传媒映画that led to the arrest of the teens.
鈥淭hey figured they were just reporting a reckless driver in their cul-de-sac,鈥� said Sgt. Peter DeVries of the North 麻豆传媒映画RCMP.
But a check of the vehicle licence plate quickly revealed it was the 2007 Kia that had been stolen in the alleged carjacking. Police soon moved in and arrested two youths, whom DeVries described in a press statement as 鈥渧iolent and dangerous.鈥�
The teenager who has been charged in connection with the carjacking is due in Richmond court at the end of October. Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, he cannot be named.
