🚔 A couple stole a taxi at gunpoint while fleeing a shoplifting scene with a toddler in tow, cops say
👶 The suspects had a toddler in the vehicle during the carjacking, cops say
🏛️ Both suspects were later captured in Philadelphia and now face extradition to New Jersey
MONROE (GLOUCESTER) — A couple who police believe carjacked a taxi with a gun in the parking lot of a Walmart in Monroe, while traveling with a toddler, has been arrested in Philadelphia.
Shoplifting incident at Monroe Walmart escalates
On Sept. 9, just before 2 p.m., police arrived at the Walmart on Black Horse Pike in Williamstown for a shoplifting in progress.
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Darrin M. Mitchell, 31, of Philadelphia, told a Walmart employee he had a gun, police said. After the shoplifting, Mitchell and Damia Darrah, 32, also of Philadelphia, jumped in a 2017 Ford Explorer taxi and fled, police said.
Taxi driver flees during armed carjacking
A township police officer pulled over the taxi on East Malaga Road near Winslow Road. The 56-year-old taxi driver told police that when he stopped the vehicle, Mitchell pressed an object to his back, claimed it was a gun, and ordered him to keep driving.
But the taxi driver bailed from the vehicle. Mitchell then jumped in the driver’s seat and took off with Darrah and a toddler-aged child inside, police said.
Police said the vehicle fled to Philadelphia but they did not chase it.
Arrests made in Philadelphia; extradition pending
Four days later, on Sept. 13, Mitchell was arrested by Philadelphia police on unrelated warrants and remains in custody at a Pennsylvania jail pending extradition to New Jersey…