Friday, March 10, 2017

Police find missing girl in abandoned stolen car left running in parking lot

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CBC

1 hour ago

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© Police handout Amber Alert child Toronto police have located a four-year-old girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert after the car she was in was stolen when it was left running outside the family home.
A passerby found the car in a parking lot, not far from the family's home in the Jane Street and Lawrence Avenue area, around 9:30 a.m. ET, Det. Ranbir Dhillon told reporters.
The car was found running with the child inside, he said. The girl was checked by paramedics as a precaution and then reunited with her parents, who were taken to the scene by police.
Dhillon said police still don't have any information about who may have taken the vehicle.
'An opportune crime'
Police were called to the home on Romanway Crescent shortly after 6 a.m. ET, Staff Sgt. Tim Jacob told CBC Toronto earlier Friday.
The girl's mother started the car in the driveway to get it warmed up, then went back into her home to get a second child, police said. She came out to discover the car and the child were gone.
"We are thinking it's an opportune crime where it's a vehicle that's running and nice and warm for somebody to take it," Jacob said.
A police car is seen outside the home where a car was stolen with a child inside on Friday morning.