Charges are expected Thursday against two 18-year-old men suspected in an armed carjacking of a 75-year-old woman in La Quinta.
Daryl Haxiel Urbano of Coachella and David Reyes III of Palm Desert were arrested Tuesday morning on suspicion of carjacking, assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit a crime, according to inmate records.
Deputies responded at around 12:40 a.m. Tuesday to the 47700 block of Dune Palms Road in La Quinta to a report of a woman whose vehicle was stolen, according to Sgt. David Aldrich of the sheriff’s department. She was approached by two male subjects, one who demanded her vehicle, a black Camaro, and her purse. The suspects armed with a semi-automatic firearm, authorities said. She was not injured.
The suspects drove westbound on Highway 111 in her Camaro and a white Lincoln sedan, which were seen by patrol deputies later that morning driving northbound on Village Court in Indian Wells, Aldrich said.
When deputies attempted to stop the vehicles in the 44600 block of Village Court, “the Camaro failed to yield and fled westbound on Highway 111, (and) the Lincoln rammed a sheriff’s patrol unit, disabling both vehicles,” Aldrich said in a statement. “The suspects fled into the nearby residential area.”
Patrol units set a perimeter in the area so the Riverside County Special Enforcement Bureau could conduct a yard-to-yard search, according to Aldrich. Reyes and Urbano were found in the 74900 block of Verbena Drive by around 7 a.m. and were taken into custody without incident. They were both booked into the John J. Benoit Detention Center in Indio, where they remained held on $60,000 bail.
Two unidentified 16-year-old boys, Cathedral City and Thousand Palms residents, were found to be outstanding suspects in the La Quinta carjacking before they were arrested later that day in a separate carjacking in Palm Desert, Aldrich said. The were arrested and booked into juvenile hall.