Man Arrested in Death of Couple : Suspect: A 24-year-old from Bellflower will be arraigned today on charges that he ran over two young campers sleeping in their tent at San Onofre State Park.

A 24-year-old Bellflower man arrested in connection with the weekend deaths of two teen-age campers at San Onofre State Park will be arraigned today on suspicion of felony drunk driving, felony hit and run and two counts of vehicular manslaughter, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol said Monday.

After police tracked down the license-plate number on the 1967 Ford Mustang left at the scene, Douglas John Freels was arrested at his home about seven hours after the incident, which investigators believe occurred at 2:30 a.m. Sunday, Oceanside CHP Officer Jerry Bohrer said.

Officers immediately took Freels to a hospital near his home for a blood-alcohol test, Bohrer said. Results will not be available for several days.

A Department of Motor Vehicles spokeswoman said Freels has no record of other traffic violations.

Freels was being held in the Vista Detention Facility on $10,000 bail.

Meanwhile, park officials said Graham Jacob Grubb, 18, of Laguna Niguel and his girlfriend, Amanda Jocon Ciskowski, 19, of San Diego, who apparently were run over as they slept, had pitched their tent in a parking lot next to their car, in an area not designated as a campsite.

Steve Long, lifeguard supervisor for the Pendleton Coast District, which oversees San Onofre State Park, said the couple evidently entered the park sometime after the day-use lot closed at 10 p.m. and, finding the campsites full, pitched their pup tent in the parking lot at the southern end of the park, which was otherwise deserted.

He said that ranger vehicles patrol all the parks at night and that rangers, had they seen the couple camped in the parking lot, would have asked them to leave. The last patrol passed the area where they were camped, about a quarter of a mile past the designated campsites, shortly after midnight, he said.

Long, who was called to the accident scene on Sunday morning, has worked at the park for 12 years. He recalled at least one other fatal accident involving overnight campers in the parking lot struck by motorists.

“It’s a tragedy,” he said of Sunday’s accident.

Investigators also said a passenger in the Mustang, identified as John Herrera of Downey, was questioned and released.

Bohrer said the suspect and his passenger were traveling north at about 30 m.p.h. through the 500-space, day-use parking lot that is bisected by old Highway 101 before it ends in a cul-de-sac about six miles south of Basilone Road.

Long said the Mustang apparently veered off the narrow two-lane road into the ocean side of the parking lot and struck the tent where Grubb and Ciskowski were sleeping.

The driver ran over the couple, struck the rear of Grubb’s vehicle and dragged the victims’ bodies under the rear wheels for about 35 feet before coming to a stop, Bohrer said.

The driver and his passenger then fled to a pay telephone and called a cab to take them home, officers said. Police said Freels told them that he and Herrera had earlier been to Capistrano Beach and San Clemente and were “just going for a drive” through the state park.

“(The bodies) were still there when we arrived,” Bohrer said, adding that Freels told officers that “he felt like he hit something but didn’t know what it was. He said he walked to the front of the vehicle . . . but he doesn’t remember much.”

Freels, one of five children, lives at home with his family, investigators and neighbors said. A man who answered the telephone at the family’s Bellflower home said, “We don’t really want to talk about it right now.”

Martha Casillas, who has lived next door to the Freels family for eight years, described Douglas Freels as a “very good person.”

“He never caused trouble or made any noise,” Casillas said. She added that his parents apparently did not know of the fatalities when their son was picked up by police.

“My son went over there and asked (Freels’) mother what happened when the police came,” Casillas said. “His mother said (Freels) didn’t explain anything to her. She just knew that he came back from San Diego and was in an accident.”

Dennis Hanks, who has lived across the street from the family for 14 years, said Freels is a quiet person who spends much of his time at home and stays out of trouble. Hanks said the beige-colored Mustang Freels drove on Sunday is one of two that Freels’ father had refurbished.

The victims’ families said they have not yet decided when to hold planned memorial services for the two.

Ciskowski’s father, John Ciskowski of San Diego, said about Freels’ arrest: “He should be made to pay, but he is already in trouble. I’m sure he’s hurting badly already.”

Earlier accounts of the accident said Grubb’s Toyota land cruiser was hurled 180 feet, but Bohrer said the impact merely spun the vehicle around 180 degrees.