Six of seven suspects now apprehended from two Chalmette carjackings on Nov. 23 and 24 and arrest warrant issued for the seventh

Sheriff James Pohlmann said six of seven suspects involved in carjackings in Chalmette on Nov. 23 and 24 are now apprehended and an arrest warrant has been issued for the seventh.

No one was injured in either incident

Two juveniles, a 16-year-old male and a 15-year-old male, both from eastern New Orleans, were arrested Wednesday in the Nov. 24 carjacking in which one pointed a gun at a woman as she sat in a Cadillac Escalade at a residence, then made her get out and they stole the vehicle. They have been booked with armed robbery, a more serious charge than carjacking, because they used a gun to take the vehicle, the sheriff said. No bond has been set.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a third man in that incident, Sheriff Pohlmann said. His name hasn’t been released.

The arrests followed New Orleans police linking the juveniles to possession of stolen property taken from carjacked vehicles in New Orleans and St. Tammany Parish.

Sheriff’s deputies spotted the stolen vehicle minutes after the carjacking and pursued them into New Orleans, with the driver fleeing at a very high speed, the sheriff said. The vehicle was crashed at Claiborne Avenue and Franklin Avenue, with the two males fleeing on foot and escaping.

In the Nov. 23 carjacking, a 16-year old Violet male, the fourth and final suspect, surrendered Tuesday after learning of a warrant issued for his arrest, Sheriff Pohlmann said. He was placed in the parish juvenile detention center.

Two other Violet juvenile male suspects in the incident, which happened on a street as a man pulled up in an Infinity at a residence, were caught the night of the carjacking.

A fourth, Melvin Pernell, 17, of Violet, surrendered last week and is being held as an adult in St. Bernard Parish Prison in lieu of a $50,000 bond, Sheriff Pohlmann said.