WARMINGTON: Carjackers punch woman in head while she fills up her Mercedes in Brampton
Masked thugs don't wait for night anymore but take anything they want from hardworking people in broad daylight
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In Canada, it’s not safe to fill up your car at a gas station anymore.
Especially if it’s a Mercedes.
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The logic in the world today is your success is someone else’s at a fraction of the cost. We pay the bills and the criminal world reaps the benefits.
And they don’t wait for a quiet street at night anymore. They will rob you in the middle of the day with video cameras running. The criminals don’t care. They know it’s their feeding ground.
These two gutless, masked bandits were not filling up their tank or stocking up on snacks in this Brampton Circle K store at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday but were shopping for a luxury car. Not with their money as a byproduct from their hard work. They were using their fists to target a 60-year-old woman to illegally fleece her of her silver Mercedes Benz C300 sedan that she had obtained legally.
This is what Canada has become. Never mind all of this talk of becoming the 51st state. The country is in a sorry state. This ugliness was all caught on another person at the gas station’s cellphone and what was recorded is not something that should be tolerable in Canada. Yet it is tolerated.
What the video posted by 6ixBuzzTV shows is a screaming woman being attacked by two men who were both pushing, shoving, pulling and punching her. One of the blows to her head looked like something from the UFC but word is she was not seriously wounded. But it must have been scary for her and you could hear her horror from her screams – which garnered no help from anybody, including the person who filmed it from his car.
“She advised police that she was approached by two suspects who demanded the keys to her vehicle,” Peel Regional Police said. “She resisted but the suspects were able to acquire the keys to her Mercedes sedan.”
In the video, you can see the thugs get into the car and start to drive off – then throwing the woman’s purse out of the window. They then sped away before police arrived.
Police say the victim suffered “minor injuries.”
The first man was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, black jacket, blue jeans and white face covering.
The second man has black facial hair and was wearing a dark-coloured sweater, black pants, black shoes and light-coloured headband.
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Deputy Chief Nick Milinovich said this carjacking “personifies why police officers do the jobs they do.”
“These criminals have targeted a more vulnerable person in our community and it is outrageous,” he said. “It can’t go unanswered and won’t be accepted.
“I am confident our members will do everything possible to make sure it doesn’t go unanswered and the culprits are held accountable and the public can help but calling in any tips,” Milinovich added.
The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information is asked to call the Central Robbery Bureau at 905-453-2121, ext. 3402.
Perhaps someone will recognize these guys and could even call Crime Stoppers if they want to remain anonymous.
Things are really shifting with the carjacking crisis. There was a time when the thugs exclusively snuck around in the middle of night and used technology to make their grabs. But some of these criminals, who don’t have those talents or know-how, instead just pick a vulnerable victim and take from them what is not theirs.
We saw that with Team Canada’s overtime hockey hero Mitch Marner in 2022, when thugs took the Maple Leafs star’s high-end SUV at gunpoint.
People and their cars have become sitting ducks. It’s madness and it has to be dealt with. Police do dismantle some of these carjacking rings but when they get one down, another pops up. Hopefully they catch these guys.
The Central Robbery detectives are pretty good at that so stay tuned. Just last week they tracked a carjacked Mercedes to the actual truck it was being loaded on, and seven guys are now before the courts. It would be nice to see these guys before the courts. If you can help make that happen, please call Peel police.
In the meantime, how does anybody with a nice car feel comfortable filling up their tank anymore?
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