SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Salem police say two officers who pulled over a car Tuesday afternoon for an unsignaled turn interrupted an armed carjacking.
In a statement, police say the male passenger bolted from the car on foot when it stopped.
The female driver told the officers she had been carjacked minutes earlier at gunpoint from a parking lot and forced to drive off with her assailant.
Salem police dogs responded and a 20-year-old Woodburn man carrying a loaded handgun was arrested about 20 minutes later. He was booked into the Marion County jail for investigation of first-degree kidnapping, being a felon in possession of a firearm and methamphetamine possession. He was also held on a parole violation warrant.