carjacking

A man suspected of a carjacking in Vermont was shot by a state police trooper in Massachusetts Friday morning as he drove at the officer, authorities said.

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.

Police are looking for two men wanted in a carjacking that was caught on camera more than two months ago in Brockton, Massachusetts. The incident happened on Court Street around 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 10. Surveillance footage police released Monday shows the moments 50-year-old Marian Grindstaff was carjacked. “I was on my phone and one of the kids just…

Brockton Police are looking for two men caught on surveillance video carjacking a woman.

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...

Surveillance footage obtained by NBC10 Boston appears to show a suspect in an attempted car theft speed down a street in Boston with the vehicle’s owner clinging to the hood. Witnesses told police the suspect jumped into the car on Massachusetts Avenue near Boston Symphony Hall Monday night, before driving away and crashing moments later. Police said owner of the...

Two people were arrested early Tuesday after they allegedly carjacked a minivan in downtown Boston, according to police. Fifty-three-year-old Adrian Thompson of Dorchester adn 24-year-old Mahad Ali Farah-Haji of Charlestown are expected to be arraigned on carjacking charges in Boston Municipal Court on Tuesday. Boston police said a man told authorities he was parked on Surface Road just before 1:30...

A Massachusetts man is being held without bail after police say he stole a car with a child in the backseat in Lynn. Jonathan Leighton, 30, of Lynn, was arrested around noon Friday. Authorities say he was driving a car that had been reported stolen earlier in the day when he broke down. A man stopped to try to help...

A Lynn, Mass. man faces several charges after stealing a car with a child in the backseat.
Jonathan Leighton, 30, was arrested around noon Friday and charged with six different offenses, according to Lynn Police.

A 29-year-old man was recovered from the Fort Point Channel Wednesday morning after he allegedly carjacked a taxi and broke into a building in Boston. William Thoresen, of Shirley, was rescued from the water shortly after 2:45 a.m. after he jumped into the channel, according to the Boston Police Department.

A man police say fled a traffic stop, led officers on a high-speed chase, crashed, and then carjacked another vehicle at gunpoint earlier this week has been held without bail. Donald Foy, 28, of Spencer, was arrested around 8 p.m. Thursday after he was wanted earlier that same morning. Foy, who police considered a “violent fugitive,” allegedly led police on...

Massachusetts State Police have made an arrest following a search for a man who allegedly led officers on a chase from Webster to Worcester before carjacking a vehicle at gunpoint overnight. Webster police arrested 28-year-old Spencer resident Donald Foy after a foot chase that ended on the roof of a Worcester building. Foy was wanted for an armed carjacking Thursday...

A 25-year-old man was arrested early Tuesday after he allegedly carjacked another man at gunpoint in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Police received a call shortly after midnight of a man knocking on doors on Laurel Street and saying his car had just been stolen. At the scene, officials encountered the barefoot victim, who was described as nervous and shaken.

A Massachusetts delivery driver is recovering after she told police in Brockton she was attacked and robbed before two suspects took off in her vehicle Wednesday night.

Police in Massachusetts are searching for a man who they say hot-wired a dump truck and took it for a joyride.

A Massachusetts man is facing numerous charges in connection with a carjacking in Chatham.

Brockton police say a child who was reportedly in a vehicle that was carjacked on Thursday evening has been found safe.

Police in Massachusetts have arrested two 14-year-old boys and two 16-year-old boys in connection with an armed carjacking in Worcester.

A man is under arrest following a carjacking on Thursday night near the set of a Denzel Washington movie being filmed near Boston’s South End.
Police say the suspect, Victor Lee, 52, of Dorchester, had stolen a woman’s purse at a nearby business a few blocks away from the area of Shawmut Avenue and Union Park Street.