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Stolen vehicle suspect eludes campus police
Pedro Viegas de Sa
One suspect was arrested and another escaped on foot when police
found a stolen vehicle stopped in the De Anza College parking lot
Wednesday afternoon.
Officer Lief Nelson ran a want and warrant check on the vehicle
license plate after he noticed people near it acting suspiciously
around 1:30 p.m.
The check revealed that the vehicle had been reported stolen in
Palo Alto on Sept. 25 and police officers rushed to the
place,.hoping to apprehend the perpetrators.
The police set up a stakeout. When two men approached the vehicle,
they moved in to seize them.“We tried to apprehend the
suspects,” said Foothill-De Anza Community College Chief of
Police Ronald J. Levine. One suspect was arrested. “The
second subject left on foot,” said Levine. Levine said that
police have been alert because there have been a series of car
robberies lately at De Anza. The arrested suspect was held in
temporary custody and was to be released.