Oregon man and woman arrested in California over shooting and kidnapping

Publish date: 2024-05-21

An Oregon man and woman had been arrested following a short police chase in California for allegedly carjacking a woman and her two sons at gunpoint and shooting an elderly man in a separate incident.

Authorities mentioned Edwin Enoc Lara, 31, and Aundrea Elizabeth Maes, 19, were taken into custody on Tuesday when they were pursued by means of police on Interstate Five at speeds of greater than 100mph.

On Monday, police in Bend, Oregon, stated they were looking for Lara as a 'individual of interest,' now a suspect, in the disappearance and of 23-year-old Kaylee Sawyer from Bend.

On Tuesday, authorities arrested 31-year-old Edwin Lara (pictured) and 19-year-old Aundrea Elizabeth Maes, both from Oregon, following a violent crime spree in Yreka, California Police in Oregon said on Monday they were looking for Lara as a 'person of interest' in the disappearance of 23-year-old Kaylee Sawyer (pictured)

On Tuesday, authorities said they arrested 31-year-old Edwin Lara and 19-year-old Aundrea Elizabeth Maes, both from Oregon, following a violent crime spree in Yreka, California. Police in Oregon mentioned on Monday they had been in search of Lara as a 'person of interest' in the disappearance of 23-year-old Kaylee Sawyer (right)

Sawyer, described as having blonde hair and blue-green eyes, was once remaining seen round 1am on Sunday near her condo, situated near Central Oregon Community College the place Lara worked as a campus safety guard.

She used to be dressed in a black dress and brown boots, and was once carrying a inexperienced purse, police said.

Her family reported her lacking on Sunday simply after 7pm.

Earlier experiences indicated Sawyer has a mobile phone however government believe it used to be grew to become off, and the Bend Bulletin reported she is not a scholar on the Central Oregon Community College.

Family participants also stated her automobile was once still in the parking lot of her condominium.

A short while after news of Sawyer's disappearance was made public, a newly-hired Bend Police Officer Isabel Ponce-Lara reported her husband, Lara, is also concerned, Redding.com reported.

Not lengthy after, Lara was once named as an individual of pastime.

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Share Sawyer is described as having blonde hair and blue-green eyes Her family reported her missing on Sunday just after 7pm

Sawyer, (pictured left and proper) described as having blonde hair and blue-green eyes, was closing noticed around 1am on Sunday

Sawyer was last seen near her apartment, located near Central Oregon Community College (pictured) where Lara worked as a campus security guard

She was final noticed close to her apartment, located close to Central Oregon Community College (pictured) where Lara worked as a campus security guard

Just sooner than middle of the night on Monday, Bend police stated they were converting their investigation from a lacking person to a murder and described Lara, from Redmond, as most likely armed and unhealthy.

Lt. Clint Burleigh of the Bend Police Department said Sawyer's frame has no longer been found, and declined to say what information caused detectives to make it a homicide investigation.

'There is a large number of information popping out, temporarily,' he instructed AP. 'It is very fluid.'

Lara had labored as a part-time public protection officer on the community faculty since December 2014, mentioned Ron Paradis, government director of college relations.

'We're cooperating with the police as best we will,' Paradis stated, declining to remark further.

On Tuesday, Lara and Maes have been booked into the Tehama County jail on charges together with tried homicide, kidnapping, carjacking and housebreaking, the Yreka Police Department said.

An officer pictured at the scene of a Super 8 Motel in Yreka, California. The mayhem erupted near dawn on Tuesday in Yreka when a man was shot in the stomach at the motel at around 5am

An officer pictured at the scene of a Super 8 Motel in Yreka, California. The mayhem erupted near morning time on Tuesday in Yreka when a man used to be shot in the stomach on the motel at around 5am

Five minutes after the shooting at the motel, police got the call about the shooting, a man called from a Mobil gas station, saying his Honda Accord had been taken with his family still inside.

Five mins after police got the call concerning the shooting on the motel, a man known as from a Mobil fuel station (pictured), saying his automotive were eager about his circle of relatives still within

Yreka, a former gold mining the town of about 7,500 folks in Siskiyou County, is the place the mayhem erupted near dawn on Tuesday. 

It began when a man was once shot in the stomach on the Super 8 Motel in the town at round 5am.

The man, who has now not been known, was taken to Fairchild Medical Center in essential and volatile condition.

Five minutes after police got the decision concerning the shooting, a man known as from a Mobil gasoline station, saying his Honda Accord were taken with his family still within.

TIMELINE OF VIOLENT CRIME SPREE IN YREKA, CALIFORNIA

Tuesday, July 26

5.00am - Yreka Police Department receives a choice about a shooting victim at Super 8 Motel on 136 Montague Road in Yreka

Officers on scene and contacted sufferer who have been shot in the stomach

The victim was transported the victim to Fairchild Medical Center

5.05am - Police obtain a decision from a male located at Mobil gas station on 735 N. Main St. who reported his automotive used to be curious about his three family members nonetheless inside the automobile

Officers from several companies searched the world for the suspect/suspects

5.41am - Police obtain a 911 call from the 3 victims who reported they had been dropped off on Interstate 5, north of the Weed relaxation house and have been unhurt

Officers spoke back to the realm and transported the sufferers to the Yreka Police Department

6.18am - Police gained details about a mobile phone being pinged with a possible location of the suspects on Intestate 5, north of Redding

7.01am - Red Bluff CHP prompt that that they had two suspects, Edwin Lara and Aundrea Maes, in custody and the victim’s automobile

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'The man had come out of the gas station to peer his canine operating round and his car long gone,' Yreka Police Chief Brian Bowles instructed The Associated Press. 

He stated Lara allegedly pressured, at gunpoint, some of the man's sons to power. 

The mom and two sons had been later dropped off at a rest forestall at around 5.41am alongside the interstate about 30 miles south of Yreka, near the city of Weed.

Law enforcement officers were pinging three cellphones to get the site of the stolen car, Bowles stated.

A freeway patrol officer in Red Bluff, one hundred miles south of Weed, noticed a automobile rushing on the interstate and tried to tug it over. 

When it did dot comply, officers gave chase, the freeway patrol said in a statement.

Police from the within sight town of Corning joined in before Lara pulled over and used to be arrested at around 7.01am, along side Maes.

'We have got crime scenes at a motel, a gasoline station and in Red Bluff greater than one hundred miles away,' Bowles said. 

'We're a small division and stretched past our sources at the moment.' 

Maes' grandmother instructed KATU that her granddaughter did not come home from paintings on Monday evening and believes she would possibly were taken in opposition to her will.

No other details about Sawyer's disappearance has been launched and a vigil used to be being held on Tuesday night time to honor her in Bend.

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