car theft

A baby girl was left on a front porch after being taken in a car theft Friday evening. News4’s Jackie Bensen spoke with a reesident of the home where the baby was found.

A 4-month-old girl was found after being taken in a car theft in Georgetown, D.C. police confirmed. The white Jeep SUV with a missing gas cap door was taken from the 3000 block of M Street NW about 6 p.m. on a bitter cold winter evening. The baby’s mother left the car running while she went inside a Le...

Over the past few years, car thefts in D.C. have increased at an alarming rate. Police say more than 50 vehicles were stolen in the first four days of 2024 alone. News4’s Megan McGrath spoke to a D.C. woman who says her Lyft was stolen as she was trying to get inside.

Ten teenagers were indicted in two carjacking rings in D.C. and Maryland, prosecutors said. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the FBI and local police said organized groups committed armed carjackings and sold the cars from a garage on Florida Avenue in D.C. Five of the teens were juveniles at the time of the crimes, but all...

Ten teenagers were indicted in two carjacking rings in D.C. and Maryland, prosecutors said.

A woman stole an ambulance in D.C. as its crew responded to a call, police say. Video shows the ambulance in motion with its lights flashing as the driver repeatedly honks the horn and then waves. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Food delivery drivers in D.C. appear to be a recent target of carjackers. “The livelihood of others is being taken by individuals who simply want to joyride for 20 minutes and then dump the car,” a concerned former ANC commissioner in Northeast D.C. told News4’s Joseph Olmo.

A 15-year-old suspect in a fatal crash involving two stolen cars was supposed to be home and on GPS monitoring after an alleged string of crimes in late April. The 15-year-old girl already was facing numerous charges before the Thursday morning crash that killed her teenage stepsister in Northeast D.C., authorities said. Now the teen suspect faces five more...

A 15-year-old girl appeared in court Friday after a fatal crash involving two carjacked vehicles in Northeast D.C. Investigative Reporter Ted Oberg and the News4 I-Team reports.

An inmate who escaped custody in Virginia in August was arrested Wednesday morning in Fairfax County, according to the Virginia Department of Corrections. The U.S. Marshals Service and Fairfax County police arrested 21-year-old Naseem Isaiah Roulack at a hotel in Springfield. He allegedly tried to evade authorities by jumping from a third-floor window with an assault rifle, hurting his...

Carjackers threatened to throw acid on a man when carjacking him at Tysons Corner Center Thursday evening, Fairfax County police said. It turned out to be candy. Two juveniles approached the victim as he sat his BMW X5 in a parking garage and knocked on the window, police said. When the victim got out of the car, the juveniles threatened…

A 17-year-old and two 18-year-olds were arrested in connection to armed carjackings that terrified drivers. They allegedly tried to sell the cars from the parking garage of a luxury apartment building on Florida Avenue NE, News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

Following an undercover operation, three teenagers have been arrested in an alleged criminal scheme that targeted luxury vehicles for armed carjacking, then marketed them on social media. 

A woman visiting D.C. was in the back seat of a Lyft car on Florida Avenue NW on Monday when the driver of a stolen car crashed into the Lyft and then ran.

According to D.C. police reporting, when Rep. Henry Cuellar says he was carjacked Monday night, he became at least the 754th carjacking this year in D.C. in 2023.

According to D.C. police reporting, when Rep. Henry Cuellar says he was carjacked Monday night night, he became at least the 754th carjacking this year in D.C. in 2023. Investigative Reporter and the News4 I-Team looks at the spike.

Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar says three young men with guns carjacked him in Navy Yard Monday night. Nobody was hurt, and his car was recovered, but the theft is shining yet another light on the surge in carjackings in the District.

An inmate who escaped custody in Virginia in August now is suspected in an armed carjacking in Maryland in September. In August, Naseem Isaiah Roulack, 21, escaped from two Virginia Department of Corrections officers at Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital in the Richmond area. Roulack was serving a 13-year sentence for aggravated malicious wounding, grand larceny and hit-and-run at Greensville…

Family members identified two of the four teenagers who died when a stolen car crashed into a tree in Glenarden, Maryland, Friday evening.

Family members identified two of the four teenagers who died when a stolen car crashed into a tree in Glenarden Friday evening. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.