NEWARK, NJ – Police in Newark are searching for two armed fugitive carjackers in the city. According to Newark Public Safety Director Fritz G. Fragé two suspects are wanted in connection with a Thursday night carjacking.
A carjacking occurred in the 80 block of Green Street at approximately 9:08 p.m. Two males armed with handguns approached the victims in a 2008 Nissan Altima.
The suspects entered the vehicle and drove away eastbound on Green Street as the driver and a passenger complied. As the suspects entered the vehicle and drove away, one of the males opened the driver’s door and demanded that she get out of it.
In Irvington, detectives investigating the incident recovered the vehicle an hour later at 21st Street and Madison Avenue.
The suspects are described as a black male with a slim build, wearing a black hoodie, light-colored jeans, and a black ski mask and a second black male with a slim build, wearing a white and black varsity jacket with a white line across the front of the jacket.
