ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta police are looking for a car thief who went on a joyride before jumping out and running into the woods.
Witnesses said he looked 8 years old and could barely see over the steering wheel.
“That’s wild to me, I can’t believe that happened,” neighbor Zoe Goodson, told Regan.
According to police, a Toyota Camry was stolen from a neighborhood on Huntington Place on Sept. 20.
While heading to the address, dispatchers told the officer responding to the reports that a child had been seen driving a vehicle matching the stolen Camry’s description, a police report said.
The call that came into police said a child about 8 years old was seen parking the car on Misty Lane, then running away.
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Police told Channel 2’s Tom Regan that it appeared the car thief simply drove the car around the complex.
“Hey, that’s a car driver around here, guy looks awful young, awful small to be driving a car,” Capt. Jakai Braithwaite described. He said witnesses calling police said they saw “just a little head peeking over the wheel through the windshield.”
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When the officer got to Misty Lane and spoke to a witness, the man said he’d seen someone around 4 feet tall park the car then run away.
The witness told police he’d never seen the child before and when they left, he took the keys out of the car.
Another police officer took the victim to the scene to retrieve her car.
She told officers that earlier that day, she’d started her vehicle then went inside for about five minutes. When she went back outside, the Camry was gone.
Braithwaite told Channel 2 Action News it was lucky the child who took the car didn’t take the vehicle out onto any main streets.
The woman was able to confirm the car was hers and took it home, but police were not able to find the child believed to have taken the car.
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