Man, woman held in carjackings in Pickens, Greenville counties

PICKENS COUNTY — Police have detained a man and a woman in connection with carjackings in Pickens and Greenville counties Saturday and Sunday.

Authorities said a man carjacked a 39-year-old man at gunpoint about 9:30 a.m. Sunday at a Pickens County restaurant.

According to a Pickens County Sheriff’s Office report, the man approached a employee of the Pickens County restaurant, Aunt Sue’s Restaurant, 107 Country Creek Drive, and pointed a gun at his head and demanded the man’s car.

The victim said the man pointed what he described as a four-barreled pistol at the victim and told him not to look at him, according to the report.

The victim asked the carjacker, described as 5-foot-10, 180 pounds and in his 30s, to let him keep the restaurant door key. The carjacker took the key off a key ring and threw it across the parking lot, according to the report.

The victim said the carjacker, who took the man’s 1994 Toyota Tacoma, may have had a woman with him. The truck was located later on S.C. 288 in Greenville County.

Authorities say a short time later, the man was spotted by a Greenville County sheriff’s deputy on Pumpkintown Road. The man led police on a chase that ended on Cherokee Lane, where he fled on foot.

The suspect was described as a white male with a goatee, was wearing shorts and a camouflage-black hoodie. He is also suspected in an armed carjacking of a 17-year old Saturday afternoon in Greenville County at Jones Gap State Park.