A 26-year-old convicted robber was charged Thursday with carjacking a vehicle near Fashion Island and leading police on a chase before barricading himself in a house and ultimately surrendering.
Alfredo M. Hopgood-Otero of Costa Mesa is accused of taking one vehicle, and when it broke down, carjacking a black Jeep Cherokee at gunpoint.
Officers were dispatched at 3:33 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a carjacking near Fashion Island, police said.
Police picked up the pursuit of the black Jeep Cherokee for several miles until Hopgood-Otero pulled over on Santiago Drive in the Dover Shores neighborhood, jumped out and ran away and hid in a residence, where he barricaded himself, police said.
Officers eventually caught up to Hopgood-Otero at 8:50 p.m. in a backyard within a perimeter police had established, and he surrendered without incident, police said.
Hopgood-Otero pleaded not guilty Thursday to two counts of carjacking, a count of attempted carjacking, leading police on a chase, five counts of assault with a firearm, a count of burglary, a count of possession of a firearm by a felon and a count of prohibited person owning ammunition, all felonies.
Hopgood-Otero also faces sentencing enhancements for personal use of a firearm and committing an offense while out on bail.
Hopgood-Otero was charged last year with a felony count of assault with a deadly weapon and single misdemeanor counts of brandishing a weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance. He was out on bail in that case when he was accused of the carjackings in Newport Beach Tuesday.
Hopgood-Otero pleaded guilty in July 2018 to robbery at an automatic teller with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon as well as misdemeanor counts of being under the influence of drugs, possession of a controlled substance and destroying or concealing evidence.