Tag: carjacking
California police arrest man, save child in carjacking following a chase
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KABC-TV reported the woman saw her car moving away Monday night and ran after it, beginning a chase that lasted nearly an hour. She spotted police and shared her phone number, enabling them to track the car using the...
Leafs’ Mitch Marner ‘doing well’ after armed carjacking: ‘It was a scary situation to be in’
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Marner released a statement Tuesday thanking the organization, fans and the Toronto Police Department after his car was stolen by three men, two of them armed with guns and one with a knife, just a day earlier. ...
Philadelphia carjacking surge due to lenient DA policies, requires task force crackdown: former top official
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"We definitely saw an increase after corona," Joseph Sullivan, a former deputy commissioner from Philadelphia, told Fox News Digital. The veteran police officer told FOX 29 that the city has already recorded 420 carj...
Philadelphia taxi driver pistol-whipping, carjacking caught on dashcam video, police say
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The driver, working for a private taxi company, picked up an unknown Black male at Jackson Street and Bleigh Avenue around 6:15 p.m. on Wednesday, police said Friday in a news release. CARJACKINGS IN CITIES LIKE NYC...
New Orleans-area woman, 73, dragged to death during carjacking, four teens arrested, cops say
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The identities of the suspects were not released but New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Shaun Ferguson described them as a 17-year-old male, one 16-year-old girl and two 15-year-old girls. "Look at the natu...
Philadelphia carjacking ring leader arrested and charged in two murders, police say
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Jonathan Akubu, 28, was taken into custody Friday following a weeks-long crime spree, officials said. He is now charged with arson, conspiracy to commit carjacking, aggravated assault and with the Feb. 6 murder of Ge...
Philadelphia man, 60, killed during carjacking in driveway: ‘Total disregard for human life’
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George Briscella, 60, was in the driveway at his mother’s house on the 2100 block of Afton Street just after 8 p.m. Sunday when three men approached him and fired three shots from an AR-15-style rifle, Philadelphia p...
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot: Carjacking ‘crisis’ is linked to remote learning
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Lightfoot argued in favor of the connection Monday as Chicago announced that it is expanding its vehicular hijacking task force and installing more cameras and license plate readers around the city in hopes of preven...
Florida deputies arrest 2 after 78-year-old man ‘brutally murdered’ during carjacking in CVS parking lot
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Javonne Marece White, 19, and Jasmine Yvonne Munro, 25, both faces charges of first-degree murder in the death of Uken Lloyd Cummings, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said. White and Munro were seen handcuffed dur...
Florida man arrested in carjacking case allegedly confesses to killing man, leads cops to body
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Alexander Acs, 33, was booked into the Orange County Jail on a first-degree murder charge and is expected to have additional attempted murder and robbery/carjacking charges added, according to the Orange County Sheri...
Chicago woman reports being carjacked just days after getting car back from previous carjacking
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A 39-year-old female was sitting inside her car in the 5100 block of N. Broadway around midnight when three unknown men wearing all black, ski masks, and rack suits approached her, the Chicago Police Department (CPD)...
Chicago police make 56+ carjacking arrests, recover 284 illegal guns in 2022 so far, top cop says
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Chicago Police (CPD) Superintendent David O. Brown was discussing crimes committed and people who were arrested so far this year when he noted the dozens of carjacking busts for 2022 to date. "Fifty six," Brown repe...
Washington carjacking suspect arrested after crashing stolen vehicle into river during police chase
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The pursuit began after officers tried to stop the suspects who carjacked a driver in Issaquah, located about 17 miles southeast of Seattle, Issaquah police said. NYC DRIVERS CARJACKED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT IN MIDTOWN M...
Rooftop Revelations: A man survives carjacking yet keeps faith
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Leonard Williams, a comedian well known in Chicago and beyond, was the recent victim of a carjacking. Pastor Corey Brooks asked him to tell his story on the 51st day of Brooks' 100-day rooftop vigil to raise funds fo...
19-year-old charged in armed carjacking incident involving Democratic lawmaker
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Federal prosecutors have charged a Delaware man with carjacking Democratic Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon of Pennsylvania and using a firearm during a crime of violence, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Josiah Bro...
Chicago man with pending gun cases charged with carjacking man at gunpoint, admits to murder: Report
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Julius Flowers, 23, and Isaiah Walker, 22, were both ordered to be held without bail in connection to a carjacking in West Rogers Park on the city’s North Side around 6 a.m. on Dec. 1, CWB Chicago reported. CHICAGO F...