Two Virginia men are facing charges after police found them in Kansas in a vehicle that belongs to a woman who was carjacked in Sterling.
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said the carjacking happened Friday, when the woman was accosted from behind while she was leaving the CVS on Enterprise Street in Sterling while carrying her toddler.
A man held an object to her neck and demanded money, authorities said. The woman gave him her purse, and he then fled the scene in her 2006 Ford Expedition.
The vehicle’s information was entered into law enforcement databases, and police located the sport-utility vehicle Sunday near Garden City, Kan., the sheriff’s office said. Two people were in the vehicle at the time.
Authorities said one man, 27-year-old Jorge A. Castillo, matched the description given by the woman and other witnesses. He faces charges of carjacking and abduction. The other man, 22-year-old Juan P. Portillo-Alvarenga, is charged with receiving stolen property. Both men are from Sterling.
Loudoun officials are working to have the suspects extradited from Kansas, where they are facing charges of possession of stolen property and credit cards.
