PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) -
The man police suspect of having stolen a car at gunpoint, 22-year-old Jose Heredia, was arrested Monday night after officers found him hiding near where the crime occurred.
Police said they responded to a reported carjacking in the 8100 block of Southeast Main Street on Monday night. When they arrived, they learned that a man in a van had gotten out and pointed a gun at 33-year-old Ramiro Marin Mendez and demanded he give up his 1998 Acura Integra.
Mendez complied, and then Heredia drove away in the stolen car followed by the red van he arrived in. As officers arrived in the area, a sergeant spotted the stolen Acura and red van driving eastbound on Southeast Washington Street at 92nd Avenue.
Eventually, the van drove east while the Acura drove another direction, and so the sergeant followed the Acura.
When the car spun out, then Heredia got out and ran. He was eventually located and arrested by officers as he was hiding on the MAX tracks nearby.
Heredia was arrested and booked in the Multnomah County Detention Center on two counts of robbery in the first degree and two counts of robbery in the second degree, and he is being held on $1 million bail.
The red van has not been located at this time.
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