Dallas – A man who carjacked an 18-wheeler and held the driver hostage for four hours surrendered to police after an officer shot out the tires and fired tear gas into the cab.
Samuel Scott Jones, 32, of Dallas, was arraigned Monday on charges of kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon, sheriff’s Lt. John Norton said. Bond was set at $250,000 on each charge.
An attorney had not been appointed for Jones, who remained in the Collin County jail Monday.
The driver and her dog ran to safety after the standoff, which followed a three-hour police chase through three counties.
It began about 4:20 p.m. Sunday in Collin County, north of Dallas, when a man called police to say that his wife had been the victim of a carjacking.
Norton identified the woman as Christie K. Bundren, 51, of Allen. She was reunited with family at the sheriff’s department late Sunday.
“It just scared me to death,” Bundren said as she tearfully hugged family members outside the department.
A man who answered the door Monday at an address listed for her in Allen said she declined to comment further.
Dallas police Lt. Rick Watson said the carjacker ordered a man out of the truck before driving off with the woman.
The chase wound along tollways, through downtown and residential sections of Dallas and onto Interstate 20 toward Fort Worth.
During the chase, the carjacker conducted an interview with Dallas television station WFAA in which he said he did not believe the chase would end peacefully and spoke about injustice toward black men in the United States.
Department of Public Safety troopers pulled alongside the truck, and a trooper used a rifle to fire at the radiator and tires, forcing the vehicle to a stop on the western edge of Fort Worth.
The suspect surrendered about an hour later, after the tear gas was fired into the cab.
The man may also have been involved in two other carjackings prior to the chase, police said.
