Metro police departments use state funds to battle rising car thefts
Car thefts are rising around the metro and around the country. While the majority of cars are recovered, police only clear or make arrests in a fraction of those cases.
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Car thefts are rising around the metro and around the country. While the majority of cars are recovered, police only clear or make arrests in a fraction of those cases.
Car thefts are on the rise, and many officials complain certain models are too easy to steal. Why do police solve so few cases?
The Hennepin County Attorney's Office has added charges against Romell Roshode Lewis, who was earlier charged with a violent carjacking that was caught on camera in Minnetonka earlier this year.
An investigation is underway and two teens are in custody after a crash involving a stolen vehicle near Concordia University in St. Paul.
A man charged in a deadly carjacking could avoid doing any time behind bars, and the victim's family is furious.
The family of a man killed in a deadly carjacking in north Minneapolis has now started a petition in an effort to get Gov. Tim Walz to step in and prevent a plea deal from happening.
Police now have a man in custody who is the first person to be charged with Hennepin County's tougher carjacking law.
Authorities have arrested a man who's the first person in Hennepin County to be charged with the newly-created carjacking felony.
Minnetonka residents are calling for change after a violent carjacking was caught on video.
A man whose wife and son were attacked by carjackers helped organize neighbors, and beyond, to speak up about crime Monday to the Minnetonka City Council.
A man whose wife and son were recently attacked by carjackers in their driveway helped organize neighbors, and beyond, to speak up about crime Monday to the Minnetonka City Council.
Two men have been sentenced for a February carjacking in which they drove the victim around at gunpoint for several hours while trying to take money from his bank account.
Police are searching for the carjackers who attacked a political party leader in front of her kids.
James Tousignant was building a fence for a neighbor when he saw a group of kids walk by. He said the group attacked a neighbor in her own driveway, while her kids screamed for help.
Sathanandan says she suffered a broken leg, cuts and bruises after four young men carrying guns attacked her outside her home while her 4-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son screamed for help.
A leader of the Minnesota DFL says she was violently carjacked at her north Minneapolis home in front of her young children Tuesday evening.
A Maple Grove man was sentenced to a decade in prison Tuesday for an armed carjacking and shooting involving a woman and her father that happened last year outside of a Twin Cities grocery store.
Two armed carjacking suspects are in custody following a police pursuit that began in Brooklyn Park and ended with a crash in Brooklyn Center, police said.
The Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission voted 5-2 to make first-degree carjacking a more serious level 9 offense. That's the same ranking as third-degree murder.
A Minneapolis man pleaded guilty Thursday to an armed carjacking of a preacher helping the homeless nearly two years ago.
A Minneapolis man pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to the part he played in a brutal carjacking ring targeting Twin Cities rideshare drivers.
Court documents say Shevirio Kavirion Childs-Young, 20, along with others, engaged in a series of violent carjackings and armed robberies that targeted Uber and Lyft drivers during the fall of 2021.
Investigators say the woman was watering her lawn when the group approached her home on Westchester Circle. She tried to close her garage door, but the teenagers got in the way.
Carjackings, car thefts and car chases are ending in catastrophe in Minnesota’s largest county, with offenders sometimes as young as 12.
The Hennepin County Attorney's Office on Wednesday announced a collaboration with local law enforcement in an effort to combat youth auto theft.
