Denver, CO – October 18, 2024 – Always check the backseat! After checking the VIN, it is probably the most basic steps to perform before leaving with a repo. But apparently, a deep sleeping kid and a lack of following the basics led to yet another story of a car being repossessed with a sleeping child inside.
Police received a call about a stolen car and a kidnapping at about at about 9:23 am from a family who were reportedly “just passing through” and had stopped by the hotel in the 11900 block of West 6th Avenue to do laundry. During this time, they left a 13-year-old sleeping in the back of the car.
“Oh my. What do you think? I think someone had stolen my kid,” the child’s uncle Alex Vasile said.
Lakewood police said they tracked down the car within 20 minutes because of a tracking system inside. Locating the car at the lot of an unnamed tow yard on the 800 block of East 48th Avenue, police made contact with the person responsible for the repossession who still claimed to be unaware the boy was in the car.
Officers said that they had to bang on the windows of the locked car vigorously to wake the boy up. Officers reported that the boy slept through the whole incident.
“I sleeping in the car. I sleep 10 minutes, and I don’t know! I’m sleeping you know!” said Mario Mustata, the boy who slept in the car.
Police confirmed the child is now safe and reunited with his family.
The obvious presence of GPS in the vehicle that police used to locate the vehicle lends to the probability that the car was owned by a Buy-Here-Pay-Here lot.
Thirteen is really on the edge of childhood and adolescence, but anyone who can sleep through being towed away in a car seems to have a similar lack of awareness.
Source: FOX3 Denver
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