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Carjacking Suspects Use Woman To Lure Victims

Trio Of Criminals Suspected In Carjackings

POSTED: Tuesday, January 6, 2009
UPDATED: 9:41 pm EST January 6, 2009

Jacksonville police are searching for a group of carjackers who have not only been stealing vehicles, but also embarrassing their victims.

Police said one of the three criminals involved is a woman. They said she is the one who has been luring the victims to her partners.

Pat Vance was almost speechless when she learned that the two carjackings that police said happened on her street and in her apartment complex -- the Beach Villas Apartments.

"Oh my gosh. In this close neighborhood here?" Vance worried. "I'm a perfect person to be carjacked. All they'd have to do is have to take a finger and flip me out of the car,"

However, according to police documents, both crimes happened to young men lured to the area by a woman suspect.

The first carjacking happened early Sunday morning, when a man came to the Beach Villas Apartments to meet a woman he had met at a club that night. While the man and woman were talking, police said, another person put gun to the man's back and carjacked him.

Police said they believe the same woman was involved in another carjacking the following night. That's when they said a victim picked up the woman, who he knew only as Coca, and gave her a ride home. Detectives said two men approached and one stuck a gun to the back of the victim's head, forced him to the ground and said, 'Give me everything and take all your clothes off."

Police said the men hit the victim in the head with a gun and kicked him as the woman took his keys and the men and woman got away in his car.

"I've been here in this neighborhood for almost eight years, I've never heard about anything like this," said Vance.

Police said they have arrested one of the men suspected in at least one of the carjackings.

Now, as more information about the crimes is released, police and neighbors hope more arrests will come.

"I hope they catch them. Really, people like that, they have no sense. How are you going to carjack somebody and hurt them in the process? That makes no sense at all," said Vance.

Anyone with information about the carjackings or those responsible should call Crimestoppers at 866-845-TIPS.
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