2nd suspect arrested… Year and a half later.
2nd Suspect In 2006 Enzo Ferrari Crash In Custody
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SLIDESHOWS: View The Day’s Top Photos(CBS) LOS ANGELES A 26-year-old man was in custody Friday after being on the run for more than a year following a high-speed crash in Malibu that left a rare $1 million Ferrari Enzo in pieces.
Trevor Michael Karney, 26, was arrested at 9 a.m. Wednesday in Marina del Rey and is being held at the Inmate Reception Center in downtown Los Angeles on $60,000 bail, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff Department’s Web site.
He was scheduled to appear in court in Los Angeles Friday.
The arrest stems from an early morning incident on Feb. 21, 2006, when a Ferrari Enzo – one of only 400 ever built – smashed into a power pole on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, causing it to rip in half.
Deputies arrived to find Stefan Eriksson, Karney, and a “very large debris field.”
“I noticed multiple pieces of what appeared to be a vehicle,” sheriff’s Deputy David Huelsen testified at a hearing in April 2006.
The hearing was to determine whether there was enough evidence to require Eriksson to stand trial.
Eriksson, a Swedish national, was sentenced in November of 2006 to three years in state prison after pleading no contest to embezzlement and being a felon with a firearm – charges that authorities developed while investigating the Ferrari crash.
At the crash site, Eriksson claimed he had been a passenger in the Ferrari and that the driver, a German who he said he knew only as “Dietrich,” got out and fled into the hills.
Karney allegedly claimed he was a passenger in a Mercedes-Benz and that he, too, saw the Ferrari driver flee into the hills. A search-and-rescue team and a helicopter tried to find the alleged Ferrari driver, but to no avail, Huelsen testified.
Karney told deputies at the crash site that he was a friend of Eriksson and that his home address was a boat slip in Marina del Rey. That boat was a $14 million yacht – one of the biggest in the harbor. The registered owner, Carl Freer, was later identified as a partner of Eriksson in a defunct European video game company called Gizmondo.
Eriksson was taken into custody at the scene after failing two alcohol breath tests. He later admitted to driving the Ferrari.
Authorities later determined that there had been no Mercedes and no “Dietrich” and that Karney had been a passenger in the Ferrari.
Authorities later said they determined that Karney had flagged down another motorist before deputies arrived at the scene. Karney allegedly asked the driver if he could borrow a cell phone. As Karney made a call, he sat in the other vehicle’s front driver seat, the San Francisco Chronicle has reported.
The motorist later called police, saying he had found a fully loaded handgun clip jammed under the seat, according to the Chronicle.
Karney then disappeared. An acquaintance of Karney, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Friday that Karney fled to his native Dublin, Ireland.
He returned to California around a month ago via Tijuana, and a friend helped smuggle him into the United States, the acquaintance said.
Authorities tracked him down this week, thanks to medical bills generated after his return to California and sent to a Marina del Rey address, the source said.
Karney was charged last Oct. 3 with one misdemeanor count each of providing false information to a police officer and resisting, obstructing or delaying a peace officer.
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_222121312.html
Because there was nothing else that those detectives could’ve been working on for 18 months. :rx3:
