Police Arrest Teen for Carjacking

A Redwood City teen is in police custody today while detectives investigate his role in a carjacking and high-speed chase.

At about 3 a.m. on Thursday a 29-year-old man was sitting in his parked car in Redwood City when another man approached him with a knife. The man with the knife demanded that the car owner relinquish the keys to the car and his wallet.  The car owner got out of his vehicle. The man with the knife drove it away.  

Redwood City Police were alerted and emitted a “be-on-the-lookout” broadcast to other law enforcement agencies in San Mateo County.

A San Mateo County Sheriff’s Deputy saw the car in question at about 5 a.m. near Woodside Road and El Camino Real and attempted to pull it over. The man driving the car drove away at a high rate of speed, according to Lieutenant Sean Hart of the Redwood City Police.  After a chase, the car crashed in the 400 block of Roosevelt Avenue.  The man driving the car got out and ran away, through the backyards in the 500 block of Lincoln Avenue.

When the deputy caught up with him, the teen was arrested. Bryan Rios Serrato, 19, was booked into San Mateo Jail for stealing a car, evading the police in said car, and assaulting a law enforcement officer.

Lieutenant Hart encourages anyone with information about the carjacking or the teen to call Detective Dave Stahler at (650) 780-7620 or Detective Lisandro Lopez at (650) 363-4055.