NEWARK, NJ – The Newark Public Safety Director, Fritz Fragé, is seeking the public’s help to identify two carjacking suspects involved in an incident on last Friday.
Police officers were alerted to a carjacking event at about 5:15 p.m. outside the T-Mobile store located at 24 Jones Street. The suspects executed their plan when the car owner went inside the store, leaving her vehicle running with her 11-year-old daughter in the backseat.
The first suspect monitored the owner while the second suspect got into the vehicle. As the second suspect drove off, the mother emerged from the store and banged on the window of the moving vehicle. The girl was let out of the vehicle two blocks away at Irvine Turner and West Kinney Street.
The vehicle was later recovered in a parking lot in the 200 block of West Kinney Street.
The first suspect is described as a Black male with dreadlocks, wearing a black sweater, grey shorts, and sandals. The second suspect, also a Black male, was dressed in grey sweatpants and a black sweater.
