According to reports, the police found and arrested a hitchhiker that they found hiding in a homeowner’s shed after he allegedly tried to hijack two cars.
Early in the morning on April 7, a man from Cahokia Heights, Illinois, was reportedly hitchhiking in Fairview Heights.
Someone saw the man and decided to offer him a ride. When he got into the vehicle, the hitchhiker allegedly tried to hijack the car, but the driver overpowered him.
A man in Santa Rosa who was found sleeping in his car at a gas pump allegedly backed his car up and slammed into a police vehicle, in addition to injuring a sergeant.
Just before 2:30 am, a patrol sergeant from the Santa Rosa Police Department was working the graveyard shift, and he stopped to grab a cup of coffee at a local 7-Eleven gas station and convenience store.
When he walked out of the store, he reported that he saw someone in the driver’s seat of a vehicle parked in front of one of the gas pumps. He believed the man was unconscious.
On June 27, 23-year-old Isabel Zepeda put her two children, ages 4 and 5, in the back seat and got into her Nissan sedan.
While driving in Ceres, Zepeda was reportedly coming off of Highway 99 at a high speed with the car moving in the direction of a Shell gas station.
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