WESTFIELD–A weekend carjacking is leading police to investigate a series of events in the East Silver Street area.
On Dec. 4, around 2 p.m., Westfield Police received a call for a car that was stolen. The stolen vehicle has not been found, but the theft occurred in the same area that a separate abandoned vehicle was found and another possible car theft was attempted, and the theft of the vehicle included an elderly woman being inside the vehicle at the time of the theft.
Police reported that a 2011 grey Nissan Rogue was outside of Big Y on East Silver Street, in the parking lot and running with an elderly female inside of it. They reported that a white male, approximately 5 feet 5 inches tall, with dark hair and “greenish blue eyes” carrying a shopping bag, entered the Rogue and told the elderly female to get out of the vehicle.
MICHAEL MCCABE
“He told her he needed the vehicle and to get out,” Westfield Police capt. Michael McCabe, said. “But they denied physical contact.”
Police reported that the vehicle left Big Y and headed down East Silver Street toward Walmart.
The family of the victim was contacted by The Westfield News, but they declined an interview request.
Shortly before this incident, police received a report of a white male, approximately 5 feet 5 inches tall, with dark hair and “greenish blue eyes” carrying a shopping bag, approaching a woman in the Amelia Park ice arena parking lot, about a tenth of a mile from the incident at Big Y.
According to police, the male reportedly approached the woman and told her “he was parking security and needed to move her vehicle.” The woman refused and flagged a passerby down and the suspect reportedly left.
Then, later on Sunday, around 8:45 p.m., police reportedly found an abandoned vehicle on South Broad Street, about a fifth of a mile from the Big Y. The vehicle was one that was reported stolen out of Chicopee and the keys to the vehicle were found at some point between Big Y and the abandoned vehicle’s location. McCabe said that police believe it may be related to the incidents at Amelia Park and Big Y.
Police reported that they are currently investigating the matters.
