Guatemalan national arrested for attempted carjacking on campus

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Edwin Walter Perez, 31, has been charged with attempted carjacking after allegedly grabbing the window of a car that was stopped at a traffic light on Mowry Road on the University of Florida campus.

At about 1:08 p.m. on April 7, a University of Florida Police Department officer responded to a call from the victim, who said he was stopped at a traffic light at Mowry Road and Gale Lemerand Drive when a man approached his vehicle, saying something he could not understand…

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