By: Richard L. Smith
Police officers in Belleville are looking for a male who stole a vehicle left unattended and running in a section of the Township Monday.
At approximately 3:30 p.m., police were dispatched to an address on North 7th Street to investigate reports of a carjacking in progress.
Belleville Police units arrived and immediately confirmed that no carjacking had occurred.
The driver of a 2022 Volkswagen Atlas reportedly left the vehicle running and unattended just before a thief jumped inside and sped away.
The vehicle had a reported NJ license plate number, "J40-RKE".
No injuries were reported.