carjacking

A man allegedly carjacked a running vehicle with an 8-month-old child and the baby’s grandmother inside today, leading to a slow- speed police pursuit through downtown Los Angeles and his eventual arrest.

Police were able to stop the carjacker in downtown LA before anyone was seriously hurt. Kim Tobin reports for NBC LA at 11 p.m. Saturday Oct. 17, 2020.

A man stole a car with a baby inside in Northeast D.C. on Wednesday and then returned the vehicle and child minutes later, authorities say. A witness tells News4 she saw the carjacker park, look around and run.  The car was stolen from Third and K streets NE just after 8 p.m., D.C. police said. It was returned a...

File photo. Police Friday said they have arrested a 20-year-old man they believe attacked and carjacked an 82-year-old man in his vehicle at a convenience store parking lot in Culver City.

A 26-year-old was charged with capital murder and other counts Wednesday in connection with a Pico Rivera carjacking that killed 13-year-old Isabella Cortes on Sunday.  The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that Jose Elias Aguilar of Los Angeles faces one count each of murder and corporal injury to a child, as well as four counts each...

A transient convicted of going on a one-day crime spree in Pacific Palisades, in which he carjacked three women, was sentenced to 141 years to life in state prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. Brian Thomas Cruz, now 50, broke into a woman’s home on Aug. 11, 2014, and forced her at knife point to drive…

A 13-year-old girl was killed and her 8-year-old brother suffered major injuries Sunday when they were ejected from their family’s minivan during a carjacking in Pico Rivera. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Monday, July 6, 2020.

A 13-year-old girl was killed and her 8-year-old brother suffered major injuries Sunday when they were ejected from their family’s minivan during a carjacking in Pico Rivera.  The family of six was at La Mano Tortilleria in the 9200 block of Whittier Boulevard at about 2 p.m. Sunday, said Deputy Juanita Navarro-Suarez. The parents went into the business, leaving...

A 13-year-old girl was killed during a carjacking. Annette Arreola reports for Today in LA on Monday July 6, 2020.

A woman was pumping gas in Northwest D.C. Tuesday morning when a man jumped into the driver’s seat and took off with her baby still inside.

The woman who allegedly went on a carjacking spree in Manhattan, stealing three cars, flipping one over and crashing into more than a dozen other vehicles before being taken into custody last week, told police she had “four to five margaritas and did two bags of coke” before the fiasco, according to a criminal complaint.

A 16-year-old girl brazenly fought off a carjacking suspect who stole the vehicle she and her two younger siblings were in in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood. Imama Muratab’s father left the teen, along with her 9-year-old brother and 4-year-old sister, inside their Toyota Highlander around 11 p.m. Sunday while he ran into a restaurant in the 3100 block...

Police are looking for a man suspected of stealing a car from a dealership in South LA and running over one of the employees who was trying to stop him.

Santa Ana police are looking for a man who broke into a woman’s home. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 18, 2019.

A Lyft driver was attacked in South Los Angeles by passengers. He was left with serious injuries and no job.

Police chased a carjacking suspect who then crashed his car into another car and fled on foot. Conan Nolan reports for NBC4 News on Thursday, August 16, 2018.

A burglar was nearly taken out when a man spotted him in the street trying to steal his truck and turned the tables. In a strange twist, the case has a connection to a West Covina little league player who has become a viral sensation.

A baby taken along when his family’s car was stolen has been reunited with his family thanks in part to a WFLA photographer.

A Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team that surrounded a Burger King restaurant in the Jefferson Park area of Los Angeles believing an armed carjack suspect was inside entered after several hours and found no one there, authorities said Sunday.

Witnesses describe a bloody encounter when a couple was shot several times during an attempted carjacking in the foothills above Azusa. Gene Kang reports for the NBC4 News at 5 on Tuesday, March 27, 2018.