Lake County police located a stolen car used to in a Libertyville carjacking. Someone stole an SUV with a toddler with inside.
while trying to stop car thieves from taking her SUV while one of her children was still inside on Feb. 23, police said..
She was seriously injured in the incident, and underwent surgeries at a hospital in Libertyville, but authorities said her injuries are not life-threatening. Officials said the woman pulled into her driveway with two children inside her SUV. She took one child into the house, but as she was coming back out for the second child, she said a white BMW pulled into the driveway. An unknown person got out of that vehicle and fought with the woman before stealing her car with the child still inside, the sheriff's office said.
The 2-year-old child was found abandoned, but unharmed in a Waukegan parking lot a short time after the theft, police said. The SUV was found unoccupied.For 30 minutes, Volkswagen tracking service wouldn't help deputies find stolen car, toddler insideThe BMW was found in a Waukegan a parking lot over the weekend, and sheriff's detectives processed the vehicle for fingerprint and DNA evidence.
Anyone with information can call the Lake County sheriff's criminal investigations division at 847-377-4000 or contact Lake County CrimeStoppers at www.lakecountycrimestoppers.org.The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.
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