CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A number of hundred automotive thefts occur in Cleveland yearly.

19 Investigates is taking you inside how harmful these crimes could be.

A toddler was caught in the course of a violent automotive theft this previous summer season.

Public data from the town present how every thing unfolded.

That day, 911 calls began pouring into the dispatch heart.

“There was a little bit woman, I assume somebody stole her mother’s automotive and so they threw her out in the course of the road,” one caller mentioned.

It was a carjacking and a kidnapping.

The sufferer’s frantic mother referred to as 911 too.

“Any individual simply stole my automotive with my baby in it,” she mentioned.

“The place you at?” the dispatcher replied.

“I’m on 93rd and Quebec,” she mentioned.

All of it occurred rapidly on the east aspect of Cleveland, someday again in August.

The mother mentioned she left her 11-year-old daughter within the backseat of the automotive with it working whereas she checked on an condo for a job she had.

A minute later, her daughter referred to as her, terrified, saying somebody stole the automotive and she or he was nonetheless in it.

Throughout the 911 name, the mom was all of a sudden reunited along with her daughter.

You possibly can hear her reduction on the decision.

It took 19 Investigates months to get police physique digital camera video of the incident.

It reveals Cleveland Cops arriving on scene shortly after the mom is reunited along with her baby.

She mentioned she was okay and headed inside her residence.

Officers acquired extra particulars from her mother, together with the automotive’s license plate, to trace the suspect down.

She mentioned the suspect drove to E. 89th St. and Quincy Ave. along with her daughter and left her there.

Police checked out that space and wound up at a home, the place they discover that blue Hyundai Tucson parked in a driveway.

Extra proof led officers downtown, the place they discovered the suspect in one other automotive.

Reginald Wimberly Jr. was later charged with two felonies, grand theft and abduction.

Some automotive thefts endanger extra than simply property.

This case is only one of a number of thousand automotive thefts that occur within the metropolis every year.

Automotive thefts are up greater than 20 p.c year-to-date in comparison with final yr, in line with the most recent metropolis statistics.

There have been practically 4,000 automotive thefts in Cleveland to date this yr.

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