Crime & Safety
5-Year-Old Girl Is Safe After Carjacking
Police say a carjacking this morning led to a frantic search for a 5-year-old girl. She was later found safe at the St. Louis Galleria.

RICHMOND HEIGHTS, MO — Police in Moline Acres, a northern suburb of St. Louis, spent the morning frantically searching for a 5-year-old girl taken in a carjacking around 8 a.m. They say a woman stopped at a Conoco gas station on Chambers Road and was returning to her car when a man pulled her from the black Dodge Charger and sped away.
The child was found a little more than an hour later at the St. Louis Galleria shopping mall in Richmond Heights, apparently dropped off by her erstwhile kidnapper. The car, which has Illinois plates, is still missing.
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