(I hope this a-hole gets locked up for a long time..he was arrested in a stolen SUV four days after the car jacking. how many other's did he rip off over time)


Caught: Man who cops say took woman's car with 2 kids in back seat charged

By Jonathan Lin/The Jersey Journal
on March 21, 2014 at 4:58 PM, updated March 21, 2014 at 5:23 PM


A 26-year-old Jersey City man who police say carjacked a woman's Acura while her two small children were still inside was arrested Thursday in a stolen SUV, authorities said.

Jamie Sabater of Fulton Avenue, who made his first appearance in court today, is accused of knowingly receiving a stolen Toyota Highlander SUV that was reported stolen yesterday at 8:20 a.m., court documents said.


JJ piece:

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... html#incart_river_default

great idea! they're probably exercise better judgement than most adults in deciding when to use deadly force

I'm surprised no-one has made the argument that kids too should carry guns!

Who leaves their kids in a running car? Scared straight now.

Jersey Journal Story Link

There were two carjackings within an hour Sunday night in Jersey City, and in one of them, a horrified couple watched the carjacker drive away in their car with their young children in the back seat.

At 11:24 p.m,. officers responded to the area of West Side and Boyd avenues after a report of a woman screaming that her 8 and 9-year-old children were inside a vehicle that had been carjacked.

At first the woman was too upset to provide information but after a while she told police that she and her husband were closing the roll-down gate of their restaurant when someone got into their black Acura and fled with the children inside.

Police broadcast a description of the vehicle and it was found a short time later at the corner of Clendenny Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard with the children still inside but the carjacker gone, the report says.

A witness told police the carjacker was a 45-to-50-years-old man with short brown hair and he had fled heading north on West Side, the report says.

An ambulance was called to the scene to evaluate the children and the mother who was still ?visibly distraught and upset,? the report says, adding that officers then went to the Jersey City Medical Center to conduct further interviews with the victims.

In the second carjacking, at 12:11 a.m., a 53-year-old man told police he was parking his 2010 Cadillac in a lot near Ocean and Bramhall avenues and when he got out to open the gate, a man with a silver handgun asked, "Are the keys inside?" a police report says.

After the victim responded "Yes," the carjacker took off heading west on Bramhall Avenue, police said.

Officers drove the victim around to see if they could locate his car, but there were no reports of the vehicle being found.