Shotgun-toting carjacker arrested after chase in Arleta

ARLETA - Police arrested a shotgun-toting carjacker who led police on a chase while trying to sneak out a window of an Arleta home, where he holed up for about two hours while a young woman hid in a bathroom, Los Angeles police said today.

Oscar Orozco, 22, was taken into custody late Friday on Kewen Avenue near Debell Street, after giving police "two or three bogus names," said a Los Angeles police officer at the Foothill Station.

The woman who hid in the bathroom was not injured nor were any other bystanders in the series of crimes that started with a carjacking near Osborne Street and Telfair Avenue shortly before 8 p.m. Friday, Sgt. Rudy Alaniz said. The carjacker allegedly had a shotgun.

A police pursuit, monitored by a helicopter crew, led to a house on Kewen Avenue where Orozco barged in, Alaniz said. Two young people inside soon got out, but a young woman was trapped in a bathroom.

She telephoned her father and spoke to him and police throughout what was to become an ordeal lasting about two hours, according to broadcast reports.

Orozco was captured by a Special Weapons And Tactics team as he attempted to escape out a window, an officer said.

He was taken to a nearby hospital for minor injuries, possibly suffered while trying to get out the window, the officer said. He was being held in lieu of $555,000 bail, according to the sheriff's department.