A man wanted on carjacking, kidnapping and burglary charges in Anne Arundel County was arrested yesterday in California after allegedly running from police, trying to carjack someone in a parking lot and being captured in a concrete riverbed, authorities said.

Scott Corey Coale, 24, who formerly lived on Coale Lane in Crownsville, is accused of participating in a botched burglary in Odenton in December, then carjacking a Millersville woman and forcing her to drive him to Glen Burnie to elude police.

An anonymous tipster called Anne Arundel police Monday night to report Coale's location at a motel in Pomona, a community in western Los Angeles County, said Lt. Jeffrey Silverman, an Anne Arundel police spokesman. Authorities contacted their counterparts in California, who sent officers to the motel.

Coale fled on foot and attempted the carjacking at a restaurant before police apprehended him and recovered a handgun that was in his possession, they said.

He was being held at the Los Angeles County jail on charges of attempted carjacking. It is unclear whether he will be tried first in California or extradited to Maryland for prosecution.