24-year-old man arrested for suspected carjacking in Redlands
A 24-year-old man was arrested in connection to a carjacking Monday in Redlands.
The incident occurred in the parking lot of a Stater Bros. parking lot when the suspected carjacker stole the keys from 81-year-old Nina Steinman as she was feeding several unhoused men from the back of her SUV.
Steinman attempted to stop the suspect.
"I yelled. I said, 'Stop!' My plan was to open the door and to reach him and grab him by the shirt and pull him out, but I couldn't do that and I ended up on the ground," she said.
Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department spotted the Kia in a parking structure on East 11th Street. Robert Carlos Sanchez Jr., who was still in the car and arrested on charges of carjacking and elder abuse.
Sanchez is being held on $250,000 bail.