From Bill Lindelof:
Sacramento police are investigating a couple suspected of erratic and dangerous actions, including ramming a car, auto theft and attempted purse snatching.
The incidents began about 3:40 p.m. Sunday near Franklin Boulevard and 23rd Avenue in South Sacramento when a man in a vehicle waiting at an intersection was approached by a 22-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman on foot. The male suspect ordered the driver out of the vehicle, but when he refused the suspect grabbed the vehicle keys.
The two suspects fled to a red Kia Spectra, where unidentified women waited. Before they could get away, police said, witnesses used their own vehicle to block the Spectra.
The suspects then rammed the witnesses' vehicle until it moved out of the way. The suspects fled but surfaced not far away, in the 4000 block of Florin Road at 4:05 p.m, police said.
There, the same red Spectra pulled up to a vehicle in a parking lot. The 19-year-old woman allegedly tried to take the driver's purse but was unsuccessful.
The suspects fled in the Spectra and police soon received a report of the car driving recklessly on Mack Road. Officers found the unoccupied Spectra in the 6000 block of Mack.
A security guard told officers where the suspects were, and the man and woman were taken into custody.
Sacramento police were not releasing the names of the suspects Monday because the investigation is ongoing.
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