What to Know
- The NYPD is searching for a man they say stole an SUV from East Harlem with an 11-year-old inside, before dropping the child off and on a street corner in a Bronx neighborhood and making his getaway.
- The NYPD dispatched units in East Harlem after a report came in around 8 p.m. for a stolen vehicle with a child inside the car at the time. The incident happened around E 121st Street and 3rd Avenue, the official said.
- Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
Police across New York City are after a suspect wanted in connection to a carjacking Sunday that saw the brief kidnapping of an 11-year-old boy, a senior NYPD official confirmed Monday.
The NYPD dispatched units in East Harlem after a report came in around 8 p.m. for a stolen vehicle with a child inside the car at the time. The incident happened around E 121st Street and 3rd Avenue, the official said.
According to police, on Sunday, shortly before 8 p.m., a 36-year-old man went inside the City Fresh Market on 3 Avenue and left his 2017 Orange Nissan Rogue 4-door SUV running with his 11-year-old son in the front passenger seat. It was at this point that an unknown man got inside the vehicle and drove along 3 Avenue before letting the child off at the corner of Bolton and Lafayette streets in the Soundview neighborhood around 20 minutes later.
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Officers immediately began a search for the vehicle and 11-year-old, eventually finding the latter unharmed on a sidewalk near Lafayette Boulevard and Bolton Avenue in the Bronx. He was reunited with his father.
Subsequently, at around 9:30 p.m., the alleged suspect of the car theft was later observed inside the BP gas station located at 241-15 Hillside Avenue, removing a cell phone charger without paying and fleeing the scene in an unknown direction.
According to police, the day following the incident, the child stated while inside the vehicle the unknown man side swiped two parked cars but did not know the location. The child sustained minor neck pain and was taken to NYC Health & Hospitals/Harlem, where he was treated and released, police said.
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The department conducted a citywide canvas for the suspect but has turned up no information that has led to his location or identification, the official said.
Police describe the suspect as a man, 5'7" in height and weighing 150 lbs., with a full beard and short, dark hair. He last seen wearing dark colored pants, a multi-colored jacket, dark colored baseball cap, a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt and sneakers.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
