2 suspects in custody after robbery, kidnapping of woman from Delaware Wawa

MINQUADALE, Del. (WPVI) -- Police said two suspects are in custody in connection with the robbery and kidnapping of a woman in Delaware.

The ordeal for the 71-year-old victim began at 5 p.m. Tuesday at a Wawa north of Wilmington and ended at another Wawa seven miles away.

She was carjacked, kidnapped and robbed.

But, it didn't take long for the police to grab a suspect.

Police say 54-year-old Norris Farlow of New Castle is the man captured on surveillance inside the Wawa on Philadelphia Pike in Bellefonte.

They say he pointed a gun at the victim in the store parking lot and got into her car with her.

"She was directed to various locations throughout the county, the city of Wilmington, then finally stopped at the Wawa at Memorial Drive, and that's when she handed over an undisclosed amount of cash to the suspect," said New Castle County Police Cpl. Tracey Duffy.

Police say the suspect then left in another vehicle.

Police sent out copies of the surveillance pictures of the suspect with patrol officers.

Around 11:15 p.m. Tuesday, two officers stopped a car that rolled through a stop sign without stopping. Farlow was at the wheel.

"Through their observations and through the alerts they receive through our portal system, they were able to identify the driver of that vehicle as our suspect from the carjacking/kidnapping," said Cpl. Duffy.

Inside the car, police say they found drug paraphernalia and the orange shirt Farlow was wearing in the surveillance video.

Police said Farlow's accomplice, 51-year-old John Johnson, was arrested on Wednesday.

New Castle County credited the patrol officers with getting Farlow off the street as quickly as they did.

"It's great police work by those two officers from D Squad. And again, it's great police work, great investigation all the way around," said Duffy.

Police say Farlow has a long arrest record. Last December he was arrested for leading police on a high-speed chase that ended in a crash.

Both men are being held on multiple felony counts.