A vehicle carjacked from Union Twp. while occupied by a 15-year-old boy was later recovered in Newark, according to police.
Sunday a couple arrived to police headquarters around 2 p.m., to report their car had been stolen with their 15-year-old son inside. The couple told police that they parked the 1998 Honda Passport outside a bank on the 1900 block of Morris Avenue with the engine running, with their son on the back seat, while they went to an ATM on Sunday.
The couple said when they came back out minutes later, their car and son were missing.
A passerby drove the couple to police headquarters to report incident.
As police ensued a search, an officer observed the boy walking near Grandview Avenue.
The boy told police that as he sat in the vehicle, two men jumped into the car and drove away eastbound on Morris Avenue. When on of the men noticed the boy in the back seat, they stopped the vehicle and ordered the boy out of the car in the area of Lowes.
The suspects were only described as black males in their early twenties.
The heavily damaged vehicle was later recovered on the 200 block of Broadway in Newark.
Anyone with information on this case, they are asked to contact Detective Matt Sakala at 908-851-5030.