El Cajon
Three hitchhikers were arrested early Tuesday after they allegedly forced a sailor to drive to El Cajon where they robbed him at knife point, police said.
El Cajon police said Joseph Maddock, 24, a crewman from the destroyer tender Cape Cod, picked up two men and a juvenile about 10:30 p.m. near Washington and India streets.
The three allegedly forced Maddock to drive to El Cajon, where they tied him up and robbed him, Officer Joel Hernandez said.
Hernandez said police later arrested the three suspects in an El Cajon motel room. The two men were identified as William Wayne(Cloud, 22, and David Charles Wells, 21. Hernandez said both men were transients. The name of the juvenile, described as a runaway from Chicago, was not released.
All three were being held on suspicion of robbery, kidnaping, forgery, assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery, Hernandez said.
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