CPS investigate carjacking, robbery in NW
Posted Nov 21, 2013 4:54 pm.
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An early morning crime spree in the city’s northwest has police on the hunt for a couple.
It began at a northwest home on Thursday where a woman was in her car, exiting a garage in the 6000 block of Bow Crescent northwest, when a man and a woman approached her, and entered the vehicle.
Acting Staff Sergeant Shawn Bowen tells 660News, thankfully the woman wasn’t hurt.
“She was threatened with a weapon and forced into the backseat of the vehicle before she was robbed of all the personal items she had on her. She was let out of the vehicle a block away and as I said, she was uninjured,” says Bowen.
At approximately 7:15a.m. Thursday morning, CPS received a report of a robbery at the Days Inn at 4420 16 Avenue northwest and an employee at the front desk of the hotel said they had been robbed by a man and a woman of Aboriginal descent, before they fled out of the front door of the hotel.
Shortly after, the same one stolen during the carjacking was found abandoned at Bow Crescent and Bowness Road. northwest after it had crashed into guard rail on the Shouldice Bridge.
Just before 8:00a.m., an SUV was stolen while it was parked and idling unattended in the 6200 block of 31 Avenue northwest, the vehicle was located a short time later, in the 3000 block of 67 Street northwest.
Sergeant Bowen says police believe these three cases are all related and officers are currently looking at any available CCTV footage relating to the incidents.
Anyone with information is asked to call police or Crimestoppers.
