2 Men Arrested After Delivery Truck Is Hijacked
Two men suspected of hijacking a Federal Express truck in Fountain Valley were arrested Tuesday after a police chase that wound through the San Diego Freeway and ended in a Huntington Beach neighborhood, police said.
About 5 p.m., a woman told officials she saw men point a gun at the Federal Express driver in a shopping center parking lot on Newhope Street near Southpark Avenue and then flee in the truck, Fountain Valley Lt. Dale Herzog said.
Fountain Valley police later spotted the stolen truck traveling north on the San Diego Freeway and signaled the driver to pull over. As the truck was slowing near the Magnolia Avenue exit, the two men jumped out of the vehicle and hopped over a wall next to the freeway, Herzog said. Police stopped the moving truck with their own car.
The Federal Express driver was found bound with tape in the back of the truck, which was filled with packages.
Westminster police found one suspect about 5:40 p.m. in a back yard near Magnolia and Heil avenues. The other man was found 20 minutes later in a nearby nursery, Lt. Mike Schliskey said.
Both men, whose identities were not released, were booked on suspicion of robbery, he said.
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