Ok but deputies say all of this could have been worse. Investigators at this hour on the streets searching for the guy. It was pretty shocking. Not even a couple of blocks down the road. Reporter folks on lakeland on edge following a brazen carjacking at the popular bone fish grill along pipkin road. Especially this early in the morning or late at night. Getting out of my car all the time and making sure theres reporter on the Facebook Page the Polk County Sheriffs Office sending a major alert. Investigators say the woman was in her car at the time, a Toyota Avalon shortly after closing time early sunday morning, the suspect walked up to the car with a chain wrapped around his hand and forced her out of the vehicle. Thankfully she was not harmed. The suspect drove off about a mile down the way where he crashed that car and burned it. Of course this is an area with plenty of businesses and restaurants, folks we spoke with this morning simply just maybe should make you more aware. Ive be
Slowdown heading towards the veterans expressway westbound on hillsborough avenue. Not sure if its from the crash or not but you might want to give yourself extra time if youre heading to the veterans expressway. Your drive on 275 looking pretty good, still. Still in the green, 13 minutes from the apex to i4 and down there at the bottom if your starting in downtown its going to take you just five mince to get to the five minutes to get to the Howard Frankland. As you wake up this morning a dangerous carjacking suspect is on the loose in office sending out a major warning. Abc action News Reporter Rodney Dunigan is live at the scene of the crime outside of bone fish grill on pitkin road. Is the victim in the carjacking doing all right . Reporter thankfully shes ok but this all could have turned out a lot worse. This all happened after closing time early sunday morning. Apparently this guy walked up to the woman as she was sitting in her car, a toyota avalon. Had a chain around his hand