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Police: Carjacker Gets Lost, Calls 911 On SelfPOSTED: 11:06 am EST December 28, 2006 BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Police said a man who carjacked an SUV in Boca Raton drove all the way to Palm Springs before becoming lost and calling 911 on himself. According to police reports, Claude King, 31, approached Caroline Funkey's black GMC Envoy while it was stopped at a red light in Boca Raton. The report said King smashed the driver's side window and pulled the driver out of the vehicle. Once inside, police said King began to punch the other four passengers. One of Funkey's...

SHAWNEE, Kan. - A would-be carjacker got away with nothing more than the keys Monday after he apparently was thwarted by the vehicle's manual transmission. The thief was armed with a shotgun when he ordered a 26-year-old man out of his Chevrolet Camaro in a suburban Kansas City parking lot. The driver complied, but when the robber got into the car he was unable to manage the stick shift. The robber fled the scene in a four-door car that someone else was driving. Police are investigating whether the attempted theft is linked to four similar robberies in Johnson County during...

A crazed carjacker was served a generous helping of tea, but absolutely no sympathy, by an elderly woman whose Mercedes-Benz he tried messing with in Mashpee, police charged. Mark Corkery, 32, of Sandwich was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail yesterday at his arraignment in Falmouth District Court. Police said his getaway was foiled when the scrappy senior splashed hot tea on his face and beaned him with a mug that shattered. ``I said, `Get out of my damn car now,' '' Jean Ridino, 57, of Waltham told WBZ-TV (Ch. 4). ``He never even bled. I thought he was a...

A man clad only in boxer shorts allegedly carjacked a couple driving through Newport in a red convertible last night, and then became the subject of an air and land search. He was finally captured early this morning -- still in his skivvies -- in a Newport alley, police say. Newport Police Chief Tom Fromme said Cincinnati police began pursuing Marlin J. Patton, 27, of Cincinnati, some time before 9 p.m. Wednesday. Fromme said Patton crashed into a car in the 400 block of Columbia in Newport about 9 p.m. and jumped from his wrecked car to commandeer a Chrysler...

<p>ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) - A man was dragged to his death while he clung to the side of his Chevrolet Suburban as a carjacker sped down the road from the Ontario International Airport.</p> <p>Seok Young Rhee, 55, was leaving the airport Monday afternoon when an individual ran toward his sport utility vehicle and forced his way inside, police said.</p>

Louisiana Cops in Standoff With Carjacker BATON ROUGE, La. - A suspect in two armed carjackings walked into a kindergarten classroom and took a student hostage Tuesday before firing a gun at officers and holing up in a vacant home. The hostage was later released unharmed to his parents, and no one was hit by the suspect's bullets, police said. The 6-year-old boy appeared to have been taken randomly, Baton Rouge Police Cpl. Don Kelly said. The suspect remained inside the house late Tuesday. Police ordered neighbors to evacuate while trying to open negotiations with the suspect, Kelly said. "When...

Hostage situation going on in Miami. Carjacker takes woman hostage in mail truck. Tune into Fox News Channel.

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Police don't recommend doing it, but a Florida woman is a hero to her mother for pummeling a would-be carjacker. Katrese Forbes was leaving a Tallahassee fast-food restaurant last week when she saw a gun-toting man with a stocking cap over his face pounding on her mother's car window, demanding that she open the door. When the man noticed Forbes, he aimed the gun at her. Then her mother started honking the horn, and the man pointed the gun back toward the mother. That's when Forbes balled up her fist and struck the gunman in the face....

LOS ANGELES (AP) Florida judo club members beat and doused an alleged carjacker with gasoline then handed over the grimacing, moaning 20-year-old to police officers. Tyrone Jermaine Hogan, of Los Angeles, held his ribs Sunday and winced in pain as TV news crews recorded his arrest. ``The boys are punching him in the face and I wanted to go around for a choke, to choke him out, but I didn't want to risk getting punched in the head, so I started pounding him from the back,'' said Christina Baldacci, a Florida International University judo club member. The Florida judo club...