Bay Area woman traveling for business carjacked at knifepoint in Madera County, deputies say

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A pistillate was near stranded adjacent orchards aft being carjacked successful wide daylight.

At astir 8 a.m. Friday, the pistillate was driving unsocial successful a Chevrolet Panel Van erstwhile she pulled implicit connected the broadside of the roadworthy adjacent Avenue 21 and Road 26.

Merced County Sheriff's Deputies accidental she stopped to hole the load successful the back.

"As she was doing so, she was approached from down by 2 males who brandished a knife, pressed it up against her rib cage and demanded her vehicle," Madera County Sheriff Lieutenant Robert Blehm said.

Both suspects wore full-face masks astatine the clip of the attack. Deputies accidental the pistillate did what they asked and handed implicit the keys.

Investigators accidental 1 antheral drove distant with her van, the different drove disconnected successful a achromatic SUV.

The pistillate was traveling from Vallejo for business. Her van was filled with merchandise valued astatine $60,000.

"She sells merchandise astatine assorted section swap meets passim the Valley, truthful she had diversion clothing, workout supplements, things of that nature," Lieutenant Blehm said.

Sheriff's deputies person present registered the van's licence sheet to a statewide strategy arsenic they enactment to way down the thieves.

The Sheriff's Office is uncertain if the carjacking was random oregon targeted.

"I deliberation it's hard to accidental with certainty that they knew what they were doing. I deliberation that the skis masks and the agrarian quality of the country successful the region wherever it occurred would beryllium highly suggestive that it was a preplanned incident," Lieutenant Blehm said.

If you person immoderate accusation connected this incident, you're asked to interaction the Madera County Sheriff's Office.

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