ANAHEIM – SWAT members, a helicopter and police dogs were searching Friday for a man who stole a car at gunpoint in Westminster and later fought with an Anaheim officer before fleeing on foot into a residential neighborhood, police said.

The carjacking occurred at roughly 9 a.m., Anaheim police Sgt. Daron Wyatt said, adding that an officer shortly after attempted to stop the vehicle for an unrelated traffic violation near Crescent Avenue and Euclid Street.

The driver told the officer he didn’t have his driver’s license or registration, and a fight erupted between the officer and the suspect, Wyatt said.

“They fought for several minutes, and (the suspect) fled into the neighborhood on foot,” Wyatt said.

The officer was OK and was among those looking for the suspect, with the search going into the night.

The suspect, police said, was Hispanic, about age 25, 5-feet-10 and weighed 220 or so pounds. He was wearing dark jeans and didn’t have a shirt on.

The westbound side of Crescent was closed between Euclid Street and Westmont Drive into the night.

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