Car with child inside stolen as woman pumps gas in New Orleans; 1-year-old found unharmed

NEW ORLEANS – As a 30-year-old woman pumped gas at a station in a New Orleans neighbourhood, a man jumped in the car and sped away with her 1-year-old daughter inside.

NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reports (http://bit.ly/126uaGL ) that New Orleans police say they found the car — with the child inside and unharmed — a couple miles away at an intersection.

Police say it happened about 10 a.m. Thursday. They described the suspected carjacker as a man in his late teens with a thin build.

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Information from: The Times-Picayune, http://www.nola.com

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