The Observation Deck

Around 11PM Tuesday night, Lakewood Police received a frantic call from a North Olmsted woman saying that she was on the phone talking with her boyfriend when 3 black males forced him out of his car at gun point and took his car. She was not sure where it happened but was pretty sure he was in Lakewood. After calming her down, they tried to call her boyfriend's phone at it was not answered. Lakewood Police fanned out across the city looking for a black car with New York plates. The only description they had.

Police quickly narrowed the search and located the male. He had been forced out of his car at the Lakewood Dog Park.


Police looking for the Lyft driver's phone in the bushes and the snow on Detroit Hill. They found that and other items believed to be from the car.

Waiting for the full report.

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Oh please stop with the sensational Carjacking title!

It’s “a robbery resulting a car being stolen.”

That’s Lakewood cityspeak, remember.

NOT a carjacking!

I will tell you as a ex-yellow cab driver. There are some problems arising out of this experience.

In the old days, you would signal the dispatch you were being robbed in a couple ways. They would respond with police, cabs were yellow, with big numbers easy to spot, impossible to resell. Even with that robbing car drivers happened often enough. To cure that safes were built into the chassis and were hard to remove. Only key back at Yellow Cab.

Last night police tried first to find any Uber drivers in the area. They could see the ones that were checked in online, if they were turned on. Then they found out he was a Lyft Driver, not an Uber driver. Then they were downloading apps trying to find Lyft Drivers. When they final found one in the area, they intercepted him pulled him over and asked if he had a way to find other Lyft Drivers, he said told them no. They asked about a phone number they could call to get info on the caller, the fair, etc. The only number they could find was an emergency number and they were told this did not rise to emergency as it had already happened an hour ago. With car-jacking quickly becoming the way to steal cars, and more and more people trying cab driving it is going to get worse I fear.

Police did an amazing job finding what they did in the circumstances,

As the Lakewood is getting worse people are hitting the Social Kangaroo Courts, to my knowledge none of the people involved were from Lakewood. Just passing through.

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Sort of an odd thing here.

Went to look at the police logs for that date and the 22nd is missing. The 21st and 23rd are up. Hmmmm.

http://www.onelakewood.com/accordions/police-call-logs/

Was it recorded on the 23rd after midnight?