UPDATE: Vehicle found, suspect arrested after armed carjacking in Tyson Foods parking lot
Potter County deputies arrested one suspect Tuesday afternoon after finding a vehicle that had been stolen in an armed carjacking Monday.
At about 2 p.m. Tuesday, Potter County Sheriff’s Office deputies located a vehicle in the 3100 Block of SW 5th Street that had been stolen from the Tyson Foods parking lot a day earlier. One suspect was detained and questioned and then booked into Potter County Detention Center on a charge for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
This investigation is still ongoing at this time.
As previously reported, the Potter County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) was looking for two suspects involved in an armed carjacking in the Tyson Foods parking lot Monday afternoon. According to PCSO, officers responded to a call around 3:10 p.m. of a report of an armed robbery in the parking lot of the Tyson Foods plant in the Amarillo area.
A 50-year-old woman told officers she was sitting in her vehicle when she was approached by a white man in his 40s, and a white woman in her 20s. The woman told sheriffs that both suspects were brandishing handguns and both pointed them at her, instructing her to exit her vehicle.
Both suspects were reported to be wearing masks to cover their faces. They drove off in the woman's 2008 Red Nissan Maxima with a Texas license plate of KFY2509. The suspects drove away in the Nissan in an unknown direction.
Individuals with any information in this case are asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 806-374-4400 or the Potter County Sheriff’s Office at 806-379-2900.
This article originally appeared on Amarillo Globe-News: PCSO: Woman in Tyson Foods parking lot has car stolen at gunpoint
