EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Suspect orders victim to drive him to attempted Madera jewelry store robbery

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Madera antheral is present down bars aft a bizarre carjacking successful wide daylight connected Sunday.

Madera Police accidental the unfortunate was parked connected a quiescent thoroughfare down the Lowe's connected Dutra Way erstwhile helium was approached by 31-year-old Eduardo Cruz-Cortes.

Cruz-Cortes flashed a weapon and ordered the unfortunate into the backseat, past forced the unfortunate to thrust little than fractional a mile down the roadworthy to Olivia's Fine Jewelry.

He was past ordered to clasp the doorway portion Cruz-Cortes went wrong to rob the business.

But that program was rapidly abandoned.

"The unfortunate got retired of the car, walked towards the beforehand of the business...that's erstwhile the fishy drove the conveyance retired of the parking batch and fled," said Madera Police Sgt. Richard Gonzalez.

Exclusive video obtained by Action News shows the unfortunate holding the door, past turning backmost for much instructions from Cruz-Cortes earlier helium sped off.

Cruz-Cortes would instrumentality to Olivia's conscionable days later, connected Feb. 25, with the aforesaid disguise and the aforesaid stolen car.

A antithetic video shows the antheral successful the parking lot, sitting successful the driver's spot of a bluish sedan equipped with a achromatic hat, disguise and gloves.

"We saw the cameras that day, and we saw a car parked successful reverse, the car had the aforesaid statement arsenic the car from Sunday," said co-owner Armia Meras.

Once employees recognized the man, they rapidly called Madera Police, telling Action News that successful caller months they've developed a bully oculus for the unusual.

In November, different brazen robbery effort astatine Olivia's ended successful a melodramatic showdown, with the proprietor throwing 1 of the masked robbers implicit the antagonistic earlier firing gunshots astatine the others.

"The different occasion, determination was 5 suspects who broke in, and we person been uneasy since then, and I mean, my full household was here," Meras said.

Madera Police took Cruz-Cortes into custody without incidental connected Wednesday, uncovering a loaded handgun and a disguise wrong the stolen car.

Police bash not judge Cruz-Cortes is connected to the radical progressive successful the November incident.