Man desired for brazen carjacking at gas station
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Police are looking for a man dreamed for a brazen carjacking at a Palo Alto gas station near U.S. Highway one hundred one late Sunday morning. The vehicle was recovered Tuesday morning at Stanford University.
Around 11:50 a.m., the man walked up to the driver of a black two thousand twelve Dodge Ram pickup truck fueling up the pickup truck at the Shell gas station at one thousand one hundred sixty one Embarcadero Road near Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center, police said.
The man yelled, “Give me the car!” and appeared to be holding a weapon in his right forearm placed behind his back, according to police.
The truck proprietor backed away from the man who entered the driver’s seat and drove away, in the process tearing off the gas nozzle and hosepipe, which was later found toughly a mile west from the station at Embarcadero and Middlefield roads, police said.
The Dodge Ram with California license plate number 84634F1 was seen traveling west on Embarcadero Road, police said. The vehicle has a white and blue removable magnetic door seal on the passenger side door.
The carjacking was reported to police harshly five minutes later. Responding officers were incapable to find the suspect or truck, according to police.
The truck possessor, a man in his 40s, was not injured during the encounter, according to police. He met with investigators and a police artist to help create a sketch of the suspect.
A resident who learned about the carjacking through a post on Nextdoor neighborhood social network found the Dodge Ram parked and unoccupied on the Stanford campus Tuesday morning, police said.
The carjacker is described as a “chubby” Hispanic man in his 20s seen wearing a plain dark-colored T-shirt and dark jeans, police said.
Police are asking anyone with information about the carjacking to call the dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be emailed to [email protected] or sent by text message or voicemail to 650-383-8984. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the Police Department’s free mobile app, downloadable at bit.ly/PAPD-AppStore or bit.ly/PAPD-GooglePlay.
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a resident of Crescent Park
on Jul Ten, two thousand seventeen at 8:56 pm
john_alderman is a registered user.
Why are the license plate and door seal blurred out in the photo?
a resident of another community
on Jul Ten, two thousand seventeen at Ten:05 pm
a resident of College Terrace
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 6:36 am
a resident of College Terrace
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 9:Ten am
It should be a law that in order to operate a business in (county name) business have to install and operate security cameras.
a resident of Menlo Park
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 9:48 am
Maybe he needed the vehicle for a family emergency or was late for work. Being that the truck was abandoned and located at Stanford the following day clearly indicates that he had no intention of keeping it. He was most likely in a hurry to get from point A to point B and maybe too embarrassed to ask for a lift.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at Ten:29 am
maditalian_1492 is a registered user.
a resident of Menlo Park
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 11:04 am
QUOTE: Mark Silverman,
I’m confused. Are you justifying stealing a vehicle because you’re late for work?
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 11:16 am
We abandon using that gas station due to scary people milling around, because the employees don’t care about the customers’ safety [portion eliminated.]
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 11:Nineteen am
john_alderman is a registered user.
@Mark Silverman – Carjacking is a “perceived crime”?? Sheesh, of course you are justifying a real crime, please at least own what you are doing. You are also acting liek teh victim of the crime is some inanimate object, the car, but you disregard the VICTIM a real person who had their life threatened. How about you think about walking in their boots. They most likely aren’t sleeping as well tonight as you.
a resident of Triple El
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 11:27 am
This article is poorly patched from the original and an update. They recovered the vehicle, but it still reads “the vehicle was last seen. “.
Editors, step it up, please!
a resident of Menlo Park
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 11:41 am
Quote: @Mark Silverman – Carjacking is a “perceived crime”?? Sheesh, of course you are justifying a real crime, please at least own what you are doing.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 11:49 am
I thought that gas station has security surveillance cameras. Seems irresponsible not to have those.
a resident of Menlo Park
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 11:50 am
Left behind to add. As long as no one was injured in the process, a vehicle is lightly replaceable. Besides, I wouldn’t want a stolen car returned as I’d just as soon get a fresh replacement. You never know what took place in that car during its absence.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 12:Ten pm
I wish someone would steal my old pick-up. Hell, I’d even give them the keys but wouldn’t want that issue to come up in the case of an eventual arrest.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 12:11 pm
Menacing a man and stealing his major property ARE crimes. No excuses.
a resident of Mountain View
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 12:29 pm
@Mark Silverman, I’m still confused.
a resident of Stanford
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 12:39 pm
a resident of Stanford
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 12:48 pm
Your own kids taking things without permission is in a entire different ballpark from being threatened by a stranger who emerges to have a gun. But let’s suppose the carjacker had a family emergency or was late for work. Now he’ll get where he needs to be, but what if the victim also had a family emergency or was late for work?
a resident of Mountain View
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 12:57 pm
“it’s too bad we can’t have cars available for everyone’s use like google does with bicycles.”
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at 1:55 pm
a resident of Barron Park
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at Two:28 pm
I’d like to see Silverman pull a similar stunt in the Central Valley (or any barrio) using his brand of logic. We’d see just how far he would get in terms of ‘borrowing’ someone else’s car in order to run a brief private errand.
In the meantime, talk is cheap.
a resident of College Terrace
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at Two:45 pm
Sometimes reading PAOnline is mind-boggling. How do we know “He had a driver’s license that gave him permission to drive just about any vehicle” and what’s that got to do w/what reportedly happened? And how does the fact that the STOLEN truck was found parked on campus mean that the person who took it was either in a hurry or dealing with an emergency? That’s a fat leap of a conclusion. Was it found near the hospital’s ER?
a resident of Ventura
on Jul 11, two thousand seventeen at Trio:21 pm
Scrolling downwards, it’s not too difficult to differentiate those with common sense/basic values from the lunatics.