Thief steals car with five-year-old in back seat in Glen Burnie
A five-year-old is at home, reunited with his mother, after a man stole the car he was in in Glen Burnie Monday afternoon.
A five-year-old is at home, reunited with his mother, after a man stole the car he was in in Glen Burnie Monday afternoon.
The car theft was caught on camera.
Call it a crime of chance. Anne Arundel County police Lt. Ryan Frashure says that’s what caused a mother to become a victim to a car theft.
“He approaches her. He asks her for a switch and for a rail. She says doesn’t have money. He walks off in the parking lot. She proceeds to talk to her friend, which is a very brief distance away from the vehicle,” Frashure said.
A man, seen on surveillance footage from a Royal Farms on Oak Manor Drive, paced through the store’s parking lot.
According to police, he claimed to have needed a rail up to Baltimore because his wifey ‘was in labor.’
When the woman stepped away from her car, that’s when the man hopped in her running vehicle.
“She was a victim of chance. She was lightly dispersed by a friend in the parking lot. She was having a conversation with the friend. During that time, the suspect eyed that she was dissipated and quickly hopped in the car and took off in her vehicle,” Frashure said.
What police believe the thief didn’t know is that the five-year-old was in the backseat.
For forty minutes, the mother didn’t know where her child was, who took him, or where they were headed.
Until she got a call from police at Baltimore’s western district.
“We’re just glad that the child was unharmed and that this individual did have the decency to realize that the child was in the car and he did let the child go near the police station,” Frashure said.
The thief left the child and the stolen car just off North Fulton Street in Baltimore.
A trail of clues for investigators, but a glad ending for a mother and son.
“We have very good pictures of the suspect, very good movie from the Royal Farms store. You can’t see the suspects face real clear, but he’s certainly skinny and has good stature that someone would recognize,” Frashure said.
Police are presently searching for the suspect, who is pictured above. He's described as six feet tall with a skinny build. He was seen wearing a black and white baseball cap, a black T-shirt with "Island Quizine" written on the back, black and white Adidas-style pants and black and white footwear.
Anyone with information is asked to contact detectives at 410-222-6135.
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