Carjackers Flash Badge, Drive Off in Cadillac

Two men flashing “police-type badges” approached a car in rush-hour traffic Tuesday afternoon, ordered a man and a woman to get out and then drove off in the car, police said.

The incident, which occurred at 5:28 p.m. in the 1600 block of West Lincoln Avenue, was the second carjacking in the city in the last five days.

The victims, Juan Manuel Carillio, 38, of Anaheim and Elizabeth Marie Giliszek, 45, of Yorba Linda, told police that they were driving west on Lincoln Avenue when two men in a Honda behind them began honking their horn, Sgt. Gary A. Querry said.

Police said the two men displayed badges, so the pair, thinking that the men were police officers, pulled over.

One man ordered them out and drove away in their 1979 Cadillac Seville, with the other man following in the Honda.

The carjackers were last seen driving the car north on Euclid Street. Police did not say whether they used a weapon during the robbery. Neither victim was injured.

Last Thursday in Anaheim, a 19-year-old man was shot twice in the head as he sat in his girlfriend’s car outside her workplace in the 1700 block of West Ball Road.

The victim, Timothy Schlick, survived the attack and is expected to recover. About an hour after the incident, police arrested 20-year-old Harold E. Harris of Santa Ana on suspicion of attempted murder.