Baby Missing After Carjacking in Georgetown Early This Evening (30th & M St. NW)

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Anonymous wrote:The baby was left in the car seat on a street in SE but the car is still missing. Curious about where/with who?

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/4-month-old-girl-found-after-being-taken-in-georgetown-car-theft/3508529/

Thank goodness she is safe.

I hope these guys get charged with kidnapping and child abuse, and get put away for a long time.

Sounds like these guys are on the loose joyriding in the jeep? At our councilmembers safety walk the USAO representative told us they can't charge carjackers cos when four sets of prints are found they don't know who the jacker was.. COMPLETE IMPUNITY and zero solutions offered.

That really seems like laziness. If a link is found between all the suspects, clearly they all carjacked together.

Nope, not according to the communications guy from prosecution at the Council meet n' greet. We brought up carjackings (a friend of ours has been carjacked in DC), and according to the rep, "carjacking cases are very hard to prosecute because who is to say the person who is found with the car is the one who stole it?" So... they don't prosecute. Interpret that as you will.

What in the world is the logic of this? If a diamond necklace is stolen from someone and a person is found in possession of that necklace surely they can reasonably be charged with theft? Same with just about any other stolen goods. What is special about a car that we would think innocent people are just routinely driving stolen vehicles.

And why not at least charge with possession of stolen goods. If they want that charge dropped they can give a name of who they believed gave them lawful possession of the car? If you’re found with a vehicle that is stolen and you are innocent, you should have a reasonable story as to how this happened. Hand over the name.

Nope. They're like oh the car passes through many hands, who knows who stole it, oh well! When stolen cars are recovered they don't even dust them for prints (firsthand experience when we recovered our own stolen, not jacked car).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is so F*cked Up..it's time for Congress to act..it's time for us to act. Is anyone ready to demonstrate? I'm ready to express myself.

Congress should do whatw? You will act how? Seriously what do you think will prevent this crime?

Tougher laws for juvenile carjackers for starters, dummy.

[Anonymous]

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/4-month-old-girl-found-after-being-taken-in-georgetown-car-theft/3508529/

Baby found on the street!

Mom was in perfume store

[Anonymous]

MPD answers questions from press:

https://twitter.com/DCPoliceDept/status/1743449580509814957

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This city can't gentrify fast enough.

Do you think there is more gentrification coming? I know quite a few UMC/MC folks who are considering leaving. I've been in DC for a long time and for the first time ever I've started to consider relocating.

[Anonymous]

Are we sure it was the Mom? I bet it was an Au Pair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so F*cked Up..it's time for Congress to act..it's time for us to act. Is anyone ready to demonstrate? I'm ready to express myself.

Congress should do whatw? You will act how? Seriously what do you think will prevent this crime?

Tougher laws for juvenile carjackers for starters, dummy.

Precisely

[Anonymous]

We are leaving after 30+ years.

[Anonymous]

Buh bye. People with money are leaving (or already left).

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Anonymous wrote:Had that become law, had Congress and Biden not intervened, the baby would not have been kidnapped, nothing that SERIOUS, just "criminally restrained."

That makes no sense. The baby would have been taken because the person who stole the car didn't know the baby was probably inside and saw a car, possibly with keys and easy to steal. It isn't right they stole it but that parent lacked judgement as well to leave the baby in the car in the freezing cold.

She probably left the car running and they got right in. Maybe she thought she had a quick return or something. Let’s wait for the details.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are we sure it was the Mom? I bet it was an Au Pair.

no

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The baby was left in the car seat on a street in SE but the car is still missing. Curious about where/with who?

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/4-month-old-girl-found-after-being-taken-in-georgetown-car-theft/3508529/

Thank goodness she is safe.

I hope these guys get charged with kidnapping and child abuse, and get put away for a long time.

Sounds like these guys are on the loose joyriding in the jeep? At our councilmembers safety walk the USAO representative told us they can't charge carjackers cos when four sets of prints are found they don't know who the jacker was.. COMPLETE IMPUNITY and zero solutions offered.

That really seems like laziness. If a link is found between all the suspects, clearly they all carjacked together.

Nope, not according to the communications guy from prosecution at the Council meet n' greet. We brought up carjackings (a friend of ours has been carjacked in DC), and according to the rep, "carjacking cases are very hard to prosecute because who is to say the person who is found with the car is the one who stole it?" So... they don't prosecute. Interpret that as you will.

What in the world is the logic of this? If a diamond necklace is stolen from someone and a person is found in possession of that necklace surely they can reasonably be charged with theft? Same with just about any other stolen goods. What is special about a car that we would think innocent people are just routinely driving stolen vehicles.

And why not at least charge with possession of stolen goods. If they want that charge dropped they can give a name of who they believed gave them lawful possession of the car? If you’re found with a vehicle that is stolen and you are innocent, you should have a reasonable story as to how this happened. Hand over the name.

Nope. They're like oh the car passes through many hands, who knows who stole it, oh well! When stolen cars are recovered they don't even dust them for prints (firsthand experience when we recovered our own stolen, not jacked car).

Well no wonder people think this is a low risk crime to commit (as far as getting punished).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The baby was left in the car seat on a street in SE but the car is still missing. Curious about where/with who?

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/4-month-old-girl-found-after-being-taken-in-georgetown-car-theft/3508529/

Thank goodness she is safe.

I hope these guys get charged with kidnapping and child abuse, and get put away for a long time.

Sounds like these guys are on the loose joyriding in the jeep? At our councilmembers safety walk the USAO representative told us they can't charge carjackers cos when four sets of prints are found they don't know who the jacker was.. COMPLETE IMPUNITY and zero solutions offered.

That really seems like laziness. If a link is found between all the suspects, clearly they all carjacked together.

Nope, not according to the communications guy from prosecution at the Council meet n' greet. We brought up carjackings (a friend of ours has been carjacked in DC), and according to the rep, "carjacking cases are very hard to prosecute because who is to say the person who is found with the car is the one who stole it?" So... they don't prosecute. Interpret that as you will.

What in the world is the logic of this? If a diamond necklace is stolen from someone and a person is found in possession of that necklace surely they can reasonably be charged with theft? Same with just about any other stolen goods. What is special about a car that we would think innocent people are just routinely driving stolen vehicles.

And why not at least charge with possession of stolen goods. If they want that charge dropped they can give a name of who they believed gave them lawful possession of the car? If you’re found with a vehicle that is stolen and you are innocent, you should have a reasonable story as to how this happened. Hand over the name.

Nope. They're like oh the car passes through many hands, who knows who stole it, oh well! When stolen cars are recovered they don't even dust them for prints (firsthand experience when we recovered our own stolen, not jacked car).

Well no wonder people think this is a low risk crime to commit (as far as getting punished).

Precisely. This is not a punishable offense in DC. Take care, take babies, take lives. Oh well.

[Anonymous]

I think she left the car running so the heat was on, left key in w/door unlocked. With the cold temps it would be obvious from the exhaust that it was on and no driver was there. They wouldn't see the baby in the back. May have been asleep.

Hope the perfume and candles were worth it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think she left the car running so the heat was on, left key in w/door unlocked. With the cold temps it would be obvious from the exhaust that it was on and no driver was there. They wouldn't see the baby in the back. May have been asleep.

Hope the perfume and candles were worth it!

Maybe the mom was one of those DCUM posters who complains about having to do her returns with no gift receipt, and this only proves her point, it would have been much faster with the receipt!