Juvenile Charged In Carjacking, Attempted Kidnapping: Stamford PD

STAMFORD, CT — A juvenile accused of stealing a car and money from a woman in a Stamford parking garage was arrested Monday, police said. According to a statement from police, the woman said she was approached by a man armed with a handgun in the Stamford Town Center parking garage around 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.

The woman was sitting in her car, which was parked on the ninth level of the garage.

The accused asked for money and told the woman to turn her phone off, police said. He then told her to get in the backseat of the car, but she refused and ran off, police said.

The accused drove off in the woman's car, which was later found unoccupied and parked on Vista Street.

Police later identified a "person of interest" in several crimes that had occurred in September while patroling the downtown area.

"That person of interest was eventually identified as the suspect for the carjacking," police said in a statement. "He was taken into custody...and interviewed, during which he confessed to the carjacking and other unrelated incidents in the downtown area."

The accused was charged with first-degree robbery, first-degree larceny, first-degree criminal attempt at kidnapping with a firearm and carrying a dangerous weapon. He was ordered to be detained at the Bridgeport Juvenile Detention Center.

"The Stamford Police Department is extremely proud of the hard work of Sgt. Sean Boeger,
Officer Damien Rosa and Louis Burdi in this case," police said. "They were able to develop a suspect in a short amount of time and take a dangerous predator off the streets."