A 26-year-old man was charged last week with carjacking an elderly man in San Dimas, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Joshua Frontino (DOB 5/18/89) of San Dimas has been charged with four felony counts: carjacking; elder abuse, infliction of injury; grand theft auto with prior; and fleeing a pursuing peace officer’s motor vehicle while driving recklessly in case KA110034. The felony complaint includes a special allegation that the defendant inflicted great bodily injury during the commission of the crime. Additionally, the charging document alleges Frontino was previously convicted of unlawful driving or taking of a vehicle in 2012.
Frontino is scheduled to be arraigned in Department F at the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Pomona Branch. Prosecutors will ask bail be set at $140,000. Prosecutors said on June 27 the defendant reportedly carjacked a 73-year-old man who was sitting in his pickup truck at a restaurant parking lot in San Dimas. Frontino allegedly pulled the victim from the vehicle before severely beating the elderly man. The defendant then reportedly fled the scene in the truck, prosecutors added. The victim’s truck had a security system, which pinpointed the vehicle for authorities, prosecutors said. Law enforcement located the stolen car with Frontino inside. After a police pursuit, the defendant was arrested in connection with the attack. If convicted as charged, the defendant faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in state prison.