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Carjackers Steal Vehicle with Child Inside, Tracked and Apprehended

Mother's iPhone tracking app leads to recovery of stolen vehicle and arrest of suspects, child found safe.

  • Carjackers stole a vehicle with a 2-year-old child in the backseat near the Oakland Coliseum.
  • The child was found safe and unharmed near a warehouse in San Leandro, several miles away from the carjacking scene.
  • The mother tracked her stolen car, with her iPhone still inside, to a parking lot outside a McDonald's in Strawberry, about 140 miles away.
  • Surveillance video captured two suspects, identified as Viorel Andrei Morari of Oakland and Carly McVicker of San Leandro, leaving the vehicle.
  • The suspects were apprehended by police while trying to flee on foot, and Morari was booked on suspicion of kidnapping and carjacking.
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