Man charged with one carjacking is a suspect in a second incident

Police say a woman was held captive in her own back seat on Jan. 12 by a suspect who also might have locked a Minneapolis man in the truck of a car last week.

By COURTNEY BLANCHARD, Star Tribune

Last update: January 24, 2008 - 9:29 PM

A man charged with carjacking and kidnapping a woman at gunpoint in Minneapolis is a suspect in another robbery that left a man locked in his trunk for several hours, police said.

Trevonnie Terrell Mack, 19, of Minneapolis, faces two felony charges of aggravated robbery and kidnapping. Police said he and another man carjacked a woman from the 2900 block of Bryant Avenue N.

After getting off work about 6:30 a.m. Jan. 12, the woman drove to pick up her boyfriend in north Minneapolis. She had just parked when Mack and his accomplice came over to her window, gesturing to ask if she wanted marijuana, police said.

She refused and started to text message her boyfriend to let him know she was outside. Police said Mack opened her door and took her cell phone.

He put a silver handgun to her head and told her to get in the back seat or he'd shoot her, police said.

The other suspect got in the front seat, and they drove from Minneapolis to Richfield, where they went to an apartment building to get drugs, police said.

The woman told police that along the way, they used her cell phone to make a call.

Dumped in Brooklyn Center

From Richfield, they drove to St. Paul to pick up a girl, who the woman believed to be Mack's girlfriend. They ended up in Brooklyn Center and stopped near the Metro Transit depot.

Mack cocked the gun, held it to her head, and said "Your ride is over." He searched her and stole her Social Security card and other ID, police said.

Then he pushed her out and drove away in her car.

Police said they arrested Mack last week on suspicion of another carjacking in north Minneapolis.

Joel Ganley, 53, was abducted at gunpoint from the alley behind his north Minneapolis home last week. He said two men robbed him and threw him into a car trunk, where he was rescued by police 2 1/2 hours later in Robbinsdale.

Sgt. Jesse Garcia of the Minneapolis Police Department said he wasn't sure whether the second suspect in both cases is the same man. Police are still looking for the additional man or men involved in the crimes.

When Mack was arrested, he had the woman's ID cards in his wallet, and she identified him in a photo line-up, police said. He admitted to driving the woman's car, with her in it, but said his accomplice pointed the gun at her, and that it was a silver BB gun, police said.

Courtney Blanchard • 612-673-4921

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