Off-Duty CHP Officer Robbed During Carjacking

An off-duty California Highway Patrol officer was the victim of a carjacking early Saturday during which the thieves also took his service revolver and a wallet containing his CHP identification, authorities said.

Richard Marshall, 27, was forced to lie face down in the street at gunpoint by three men who apparently did not know he was a police officer, said Burbank police Sgt. Janice Lowers.

“He complied, which is probably why he is still alive,” she said.

The carjacking occurred about 5 a.m., just after he had parked his Ford Explorer on Riverside Drive near Chavez Street, Lowers said. He was on his way to the nearby Griffith Park Equestrian Center to go riding.