Flint, MI – May 18, 2023 – Engine running; piece of cake, the agent thought as he ran up to the car and jumped behind the wheel. Ten miles away, the flashing lights in the rearview mirror told a different story. Pulled over, he had no idea why the officers thought he was a car thief and kidnapper. That’s because he never bothered to look in the backseat.
Last Friday, Flint Police responded to a call from a frantic mother reporting that her car had been stolen with her two-year-old child in the backseat. Having only stepped away from her vehicle for a minute she saw it driving away from a residence on the 2100 block of South Dort Highway.
Frantic, she borrowed a friend’s car and took chase updating 911 dispatchers of her location all along the way. Officers soon caught up to them and engaged the driver almost ten miles away on I-475, just north of Carpenter Road.
Once pulled over, the agent identified himself and that it was a repossession. But it wasn’t until then that he found out the two-year-old was asleep in the back of the car.
The child was unharmed and reunited with its mother. There were no reported charges of kidnapping.
Source: Flint Journal
Like a broken record, we hear these stories again and again. Repo 101; always look in the back seat before leaving with a vehicle.





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