BMW Stolen While Paying for Gas at Hess in West Roxbury

A man who went to pay for gas at the Hess Station on Washington Street in West Roxbury, looked back, and saw that his car had been stolen. The vehicle, a BMW, was later found crashed into a commercial building farther down the road.

The victim said that around 10:30 p.m. on April 13 he left his 2003 BMW with the engine running at the Hess station, and went up to the service window to pay for gas, according to a Boston Police report. The man said an unknown woman asked him to open a bottle that she had just bought from inside the Hess station store. And when the attendant asked him for the pump number, the man looked back and his vehicle was gone. The man said he did not see anyone or what direction the car had been driven, and that the female he had just helped was also gone.

The vehicle was found crashed into a wall at 5260 Washington St., a commercial building, after an employee notified the police around 8:07 a.m. on April 14. The vehicle had sustained heavy damage to the front end and needed to be towed, according to a police report. There was also damage to bricks of the doorway to the building's storage room. 

The victim reported a GPS unit and two cellphone were in the vehicle when stolen, and those items were not recovered.