York Regional Police say they’ve located a stolen Audi that was used in a wild mall robbery in which the suspects drove the car through a shopping centre in Vaughan, Ont.
Security camera footage provided by police shows the vehicle smashed through the mall’s glass entrance doors and navigated through the building toward its targeted store.
Police said the suspects committed a break-and-enter in the robbery and stole “a quantity of items” from an electronics store before smashing through another set of glass doors and fleeing the scene. No one was injured in the incident.
The alleged robbery took place at the Vaughan Mills shopping mall, near the area of Highway 400 and Rutherford Road, at around 1:10 a.m. on Feb. 1.
Stolen Car From Quebec
A Quebec woman who claims to be the original owner of the stolen Audi said her car was taken by a man during a test drive.On Jan. 29, a man responded to her ad and came to her home in order to test drive the vehicle, Kobinger said.
The man took the car out twice. Everything went fine during the first test drive, but Kobinger said he started to “drive dangerously” in the second run. Kobinger, feeling nervous, asked to change places with the man. That’s when things went wrong.
“We both got out of the car and as soon as we were walking to change place, he ran back,” she told CTV News in the Feb. 1 report. “He didn’t even have time to sit back in the car completely—he had one foot still out [of the car] and the other foot pressed on the gas petal, and he left with my car.”
Kobinger said she hasn’t seen her car since and was surprised when York Regional Police told her on Feb. 1 that her vehicle had been involved in a theft in Ontario—550 km away from where she lives in Laval.
“Never had I in my lifetime did I thought I'd see my car driving through a mall, especially through windows,” she said.
