{"id":1394173,"date":"2022-03-22T13:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394173"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:29:42","slug":"man-attempts-to-carjack-fully-marked-police-car-with-officers-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-attempts-to-carjack-fully-marked-police-car-with-officers-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Attempts To Carjack Fully Marked Police Car With Officers Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-attempts-to-carjack-fully-marked-police-car-with-officers-inside%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394173&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-150554977.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>File this under \u201cWorld\u2019s Dumbest Criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two St. Louis, Missouri, police officers were in their fully marked police vehicle on Saturday when a man stepped into traffic, walked up to the passenger side of the vehicle, and pointed a handgun at the officers in an attempt to carjack the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The officers were responding to a call of shots fired when the incident happened, FOX 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/fox2now.com\/news\/st-louis-police-arrest-man-who-tried-carjacking-officers\/\">reported<\/a>. A police summary of the incident that the \u201cofficers were able to maneuver out of harm\u2019s way while the suspect simultaneously discovered he was attempting to carjack a fully marked police car. The suspect took off running.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Assisting officers were able to locate the suspect and take him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/no-charges-filed-against-man-arrested-in-carjacking-attempt-on-two-st-louis-cops\/article_fdf95b7f-e767-551f-9e35-6e60b06a2c41.html#:~:text=Louis%20cops,-Kim%20Bell&#038;text=Twitter-,ST.,27%2Dyear%2Dold%20man.\">reported<\/a> Tuesday that prosecutors have declined to file charges against the man, even though the St. Louis Police Department (SLPD) sought charges of first-degree robbery, armed criminal action, and resisting arrest. Evita Caldwell, a spokeswoman for the SLPD, confirmed to the Post-Dispatch that prosecutors refused to file charges.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/article\/news\/local\/no-charges-man-accused-carjack-st-louis-police-vehicle\/63-1eb4cf87-ece0-43ba-b416-e13df208797f\">told<\/a> KSDK that the case was still \u201cunder investigation\u201d and declined to tell the outlet why charges hadn\u2019t been filed. The outlet also noted that the man who was arrested in the case \u201cis currently facing charges for several incidents over the past few years in St. Louis and Jefferson County, including domestic assault, violating an order of protection and first-degree property damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carjackings have increased during the pandemic, The Daily Wire has previously reported. In 2021, carjackings in D.C. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/d-c-carjackings-surge-nearly-74-in-2021-report\">reportedly<\/a> increased 74% between January and July 12 over the same period in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMayor Muriel Bowser has not responded to multiple requests for comment on the crimes and inquiries on how to combat them, but D.C. police revealed they launched a carjacking task force using \u2018bait cars\u2019 to catch suspects in the city,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/washington-dc-police-carjacking-bait-cars\">reported<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, six teenagers aged 13 through 17 were arrested in the nation\u2019s capital for separate carjackings, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/d-c-police-arrest-six-kids-ages-13-through-17-in-separate-armed-carjackings\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2021, Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) was walking to her SUV \u201cwhen she said two black males approached her and demanded her keys. After she handed over her keys, one man drove her vehicle followed by the second man in another SUV,\u201d The Daily Wire reported.<\/p>\n<p>Later that same day, five suspects \u2013 four men and one woman \u2013 were apprehended for the crime. Scanlon\u2019s office released a statement thanking police for their hard work:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Wednesday afternoon around 2:45 p.m., Congresswoman Scanlon was carjacked at gunpoint in FDR Park following a meeting at that location. The Congresswoman was physically unharmed. She thanks the Philadelphia Police Department for their swift response, and appreciates the efforts of both the Sergeant at Arms in D.C. and her local police department for coordinating with Philly PD to ensure her continued safety.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same?\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>Become a member now and join our mission.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this under \u201cWorld\u2019s Dumbest Criminals.\u201dTwo St. Louis, Missouri, police officers were in their fully marked police vehicle on Saturday when a man stepped into traffic, walked up to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}