Teen Given 13 Years for Carjacking

A 17-year-old was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in prison for carjacking a Canyon Country woman’s car from in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant.

Gilbert Dominguez of Quartz Hill and his accomplice, Carlos Anguiano, 19, of Los Angeles, pleaded no contest Thursday in San Fernando Superior Court to carjacking. Each admitted that Dominguez was armed with a handgun.

Dominguez got 13 years and Anguiano was sentenced to six years in prison, according to Dep. Dist. Atty. Garrett Worchell.

Dominguez and Anguiano were convicted of ordering a 49-year-old Canyon Country woman from her car at gunpoint on Aug. 4.

The two were arrested in the Antelope Valley after they crashed the stolen sport utility vehicle. A retired police officer--who lived in the area and had heard about the crime as well as the suspects’ description on his police scanner--spotted the two hiding near the crashed vehicle. He held them at gunpoint until sheriff’s deputies arrived.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Max Godinez said the victim was able to identify Dominguez, in part, by the distinctive prison-style tattoos on his arm, Chinese characters that translate to “Trust no one.”