5 Arrested Soon After Violent Carjacking : Crime: Driver flagged down on Santiago Canyon Road is beaten. Deputies stop car nearby and jail three adults and two juveniles. It is the third case in three days.

A violent carjacking on a deserted stretch of Santiago Canyon Road ended in the arrests soon afterward of five people, the Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday.

The attack occurred about 11 p.m. Monday, when a 17-year-old driver pulled his 1988 Nissan Sentra over to the side of the road when two men standing next to a red pickup truck flagged him down.

The driver, an Anaheim resident whose name was not released, stopped to see if he could help. But three men appeared and surrounded the car. When the teen-ager got out, he was knocked to the ground, punched and kicked, said Sheriff’s Lt. Dick Olson.

Four passengers in the car who were pulled out by the attackers managed to run away. They were not injured.

The attackers, who were not armed, drove off in the car but were stopped by deputies a short time later at the intersection of Chapman and Hewes avenues in an unincorporated area of the county near Orange.

Two of the suspects were arrested at the scene but three others escaped. They were later arrested a short distance away in the 18000 block of Pearl Street.

Three adults--Sergio Castro, 21, of Maywood, Richard Castro, 20, of Anaheim, and Edgardo Solis, 19, of Anaheim--are being held at Orange County Jail under $50,000 bail each on robbery and auto theft charges.

Two juveniles, 16-year-old and 15-year-old males from Anaheim, are being held at Orange County Juvenile Hall.

Olson said the incident served as a reminder that drivers need to be extremely cautious about stopping in remote areas late at night.

“If someone sees an accident, I would hope that they would render some sort of assistance even if it’s just making a phone call,” Olson said. “But there’s a difference between an accident and someone who is just broken down.”

Olson said the incident does not appear to be related to a carjacking in San Clemente early Saturday during which four to six men forced the driver of a 1992 Mercedes-Benz to pull over on Camino de Estrella.

The men, armed with handguns, demanded money from the driver and four passengers, then drove off in the car. The men, all in their early 20s, remained at large Tuesday, Olson said.

Also, Fountain Valley police on Monday arrested two Westminster men and a female juvenile in connection with a carjacking that occurred in that city Sunday afternoon in the parking lot of an Albertson’s supermarket at Magnolia Street and Edinger Avenue.