Thief points gun, takes car from Pa. women

Monday, August 03, 2009

Three Pennsylvania women were held up at gunpoint and had their car stolen in Jersey City Friday morning, according to police reports.

Police were called to the scene at Claremont Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard at 1:38 a.m., reports said.

A 23-year-old resident of Harrisburg, Pa. told police she was sitting in the front passenger seat of her 2006 Buick Terraza when two men carrying handguns walked up to the car and ordered her and two passengers in the back seat out of the car, reports said.

The robbers searched the women, but didn't take anything before they drove off in the car, reports said.

CHARLES HACK