Police arrest two carjacking suspects with help from UPS driver
Published 9:46 pm Friday, January 16, 2009
EVERETT — It was a UPS driver who delivered two suspected carjackers to police, according to court documents filed Friday.
The driver saw two people yelling for help early Dec. 29 after a woman was forced to drive off at gunpoint. The delivery man jumped into his vehicle, followed the car and called 911.
The men were arrested a short time later.
Prosecutors on Friday charged the two suspects, Camino Gahagan and Robert Koppel, with first-degree kidnapping while armed with a gun and second-degree assault.
Gahagan, 29, and Koppel, 27, are accused of hiding in the backseat of a woman’s car while she and her friends went inside the Top Foods grocery store in Everett. When the woman slid into the driver’s seat, Koppel allegedly put a gun to her head and demanded money. The woman’s friends ran into the store.
The woman told investigators Gahagan told Koppel to shoot her after he counted to three, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Craig Matheson wrote. When Gahagan finished counting, Koppel allegedly fired a .45-caliber gun next to the woman’s head, according to court documents. The round struck the windshield.
The police found the car thanks to the help of the UPS driver.
