Anchorage,AK : Police catch suspected carjacker after crash, search in East Anchorage on May, Friday 4th 2018

An armed carjacker was taken into custody Friday morning after a search that shut down East Anchorage streets during the early-morning commute, police said.

An Alaska Native Medical Center employee called 911 at 5:45 a.m. to say she was carjacked at gunpoint in the parking lot by a man who drove away in her black Dodge Charger, Anchorage Police Department spokesman MJ Thim said. She wasn't hurt.

The suspect, identified by police as 25-year-old Cordy Martin, was spotted driving recklessly at a high rate of speed on Boniface Parkway approaching Fourth Avenue, according to an APD release Friday.

A police pursuit was underway at the time after officers spotted the stolen car on Boniface, Thim said.

But Martin "was already driving at a high rate of speed, he was already driving recklessly," he said.

Martin lost control of the Charger, crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with another car, Thim said. The car was a Ford sedan.

A rollover resulted in minor injuries to the Ford's driver, who was taken to the hospital, he said. Martin fled on foot into the area between Fourth and Sixth avenues, and police set up a perimeter.

A K-9 named Alex and part of the police force's SWAT team began a search.

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Police catch suspected carjacker after crash, search in East Anchorage