Police: Child, 5, found unharmed after kidnapping, car theft in Wolcott
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A file photo of a Wolcott, Conn., police vehicle.Wolcott Police / Contributed
WOLCOTT A 5-year-old girl was found by the town’s top cop “physically unharmed” more than two hours after being kidnapped during the theft of a motor vehicle from a local convenience store late Sunday night, police said.
Police took a 911 call around 11:30 p.m. about a vehicle stolen from Cumberland Farms at 1655 Meriden Road with a 5-year-old child inside, officials said.
All police units, as well as additional units from Waterbury, responded to the scene.
Officers found that an 11-year-old boy had also been in the vehicle that was taken, but had managed to jump out of the vehicle before the alleged suspect drove off, police said.
Investigators said footage from the store showed a blue Kia with several people inside pull into the lot next to the victim s vehicle. Someone from the Kia got out, got into the victim s car, backed up and while trying to flee, hit another parked car, they added. The 11-year-old jumped out of the vehicle at that time, according to police. Police have shared surveillance video showing suspects stealing a vehicle with two kids inside of it in Wolcott on Sunday night.
The suspect who was in the victim s vehicle with the 5-year-old girl inside and the blue Kia then turned right and drove toward Waterbury, authorities said.
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The suspects, however, remain on the run.
“She’s been shaking all night,” said Deserea Morris, the girl’s mother, in an exclusive interview with Channel 3. “The trauma she has to go through. That was not the best experience. They should pay for what they done.”
Wolcott Police Chief Edward Stephens said the girl and her 11-year-old brother were in the car when their mom stopped at a Cumberland Farms gas station on Meriden Road around 11:30 p.m. Sunday.
That’s when a second car pulled up and a suspect jumped into the running vehicle. It was caught on surveillance video.
Two men have been charged with two counts each of involuntary manslaughter after a pickup truck being towed by another pickup truck last month came loose, struck a motorcycle and killed its riders, Topekans Anthony and Tamara Vardys.
Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay announced in a news release Friday that his office had filed charges against Randy Dean Clelland and Rigo Oliver Phinney linked to the crash, which Topeka police said occurred just after 10 p.m. March 20 at the intersection of N.E. US-24 highway and Meriden Road.
Clelland and Phinney were using a pickup truck and a chain to tow another pickup, which was disabled, when the chain came loose as the pickup in front tried to turn north from US-24 onto Meriden Road, Kagay said.
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