TEMECULA – Authorities Friday sought a 26-year-old suspect who took his girlfriend's vehicle during a domestic dispute at the Pechanga Indian Casino and later abandoned it on the Reservation.

Benjamin Masiel, of Temecula allegedly took the vehicle about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday from the 45000 block of Pechanga Parkway, according to sheriff's Sgt. Michael Hatfield.

At about noon Thursday, tribal rangers for the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians found the abandoned vehicle on a dirt road on the reservation, Hatfield said.

Masiel is considered armed and dangerous and anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call sheriff's deputies at (951) 776-1099.