Suspects arrested in Mountain View carjacking Suspects arrested in Mountain View carjacking (January 20, 2006)

By Nick Burr

Mountain View police have arrested two men in connection with a string of Bay Area car thefts, including a carjacking at gunpoint on Pacchetti Way.

On Jan. 4, police detectives followed a vehicle -- a 2003 Toyota Corolla "originally stolen out of Union City" -- across the Bay and into Newark, said police spokesman Jim Bennett. According to Bennett, the detectives stopped the vehicle in Newark and arrested Stanley Ervin, 25, and Michael Jones, 27, both of Fremont.

"They were both initially arrested for possession of stolen property," Bennett said. Ervin, however, was discovered to be the lead suspect in an earlier Mountain View carjacking.

According to Bennett, on Dec. 30, a woman on the 200 block of Pacchetti Way in Mountain View was getting into her 1999 Honda Civic when a man approached her.

"He displayed a weapon at the victim, possibly a long-barrel rifle, and told the victim to get out of the vehicle," said Bennett. The victim complied, and a second suspect, a woman, jumped in the passenger side and the car drove off, Bennett said.

Bennett said that a white BMW, stolen two months earlier in Fremont, was found at Jones' residence in Fremont and that Jones was then charged with possession of that vehicle.

"Ervin was given additional charges for the Mountain View carjacking; Jones was additionally charged with a [second] stolen vehicle," Bennett said.

He said Mountain View police are looking into the case with other Bay Area police departments.

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