A 24-year-old Massachusetts man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting an Uber driver and stealing her car. Christopher Dawkins has been charged with carjacking, strangulation/suffocation, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and receiving a stolen motor vehicle, the Boston Police Department said. Police said they were called to the scene near Boston’s South End …
A Florida man was arrested Monday after he carjacked a Good Samaritan at gunpoint then later fled police through the mangroves of the Halifax River. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said a victim reported that the suspect, later identified as 34-year-old Grant Hagood-James, asked hi for a ride in Daytona Beach Shores, then pulled a …
A Connecticut man driving a stolen car tried to exchange it for another by carjacking a woman in the drive thru lane at an East Haven Dunkin’ Tuesday night but ran afoul of two store employees who subdued the man and held him down until police arrived. East Haven Police said that 28-year-old William Rodriguez …
Three Florida children were kidnapped when the rental car they were sleeping in was carjacked Saturday morning. Local 10 reports that video surveillance captured 26-year-old Noel Castro commandeering a Nissan Versa from in front of a motel along Tamiami Trail and Southwest 23rd Avenue, just south of the Little Havana neighborhood. According to CBS News, …
A Maryland woman was killed Sunday when she tried to stop a man from stealing her car at a convenience store in Sterling, Virginia. A criminal complaint says that Melody Waldecker, 54, left her car running when she stopped at the 7-Eleven in the Town Center at Sterling shopping center just after 11:30 a.m., the …
The second “person of interest” in a fatal carjacking earlier this month has been arrested on drug charges. Giovany Crespo Hernandez was arrested on Monday, according to jail records. Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said last week that investigators believe Hernandez was the last person to speak with Katherine Aguasvivas before she was carjacked and …
Authorities in Florida have made an arrest in their investigation into the shocking fatal carjacking last week that was recorded by a witness and say they are looking for a second man who was identified by the “independent investigation” of the victim’s brother. Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said that Jordanish Torres-Garcia was taken into …
The investigation into the fatal carjacking of a south Florida woman in central Florida last week has taken a few twists and turns with the discovery of the vehicle the suspects used prior to stealing Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvivas’s SUV — and the arrest of a sheriff’s deputy in another county for leaking information to …
Authorities in central Florida are looking for a woman who appeared to be carjacked and kidnapped in a witness video recorded early Thursday evening. The video shows a white Dodge Durango at a stop light in unincorporated Seminole County as an armed man in a hoodie and a Halloween-type mask points a gun at the …
An 18-year-old man and an 11-year-old boy have been arrested for carjacking a Virginia home health care nurse who was moonlighting as a DoorDash driver. Deon Smith, 40, told WTVR that she was dropping off an order just after midnight on November 30 when she was approached by the two suspects as she returned to …
Ring surveillance footage captured last Thursday night showed an Illinois mother and daughter robbed at gunpoint in their driveway by two people. CBS News reports that Michele Pettiford and her 12-year-old child had just returned from a volleyball event when they were targeted by two assailants dressed in black. The incident, according to police, happened …
A Florida woman has been arrested for allegedly carjacking her mother after an argument. The Cocoa Beach Police Department said that Amber Scheuren-Rusnak, 25, has been charged with aggravated battery and carjacking in the incident, which took place about noon on Thursday, WOFL reported. Jail records show she has also been charged with aggravated abuse …
