A Domino’s Pizza delivery driver can thank her lucky stars that her car doesn’t have an automatic transmission. If it did, two car-jackers would have gotten away with her vehicle.
Two 16-year-old black male residents of Crossroads for Youth escaped June 4 and allegedly attempted to car-jack the pizza delivery driver as she was getting into her vehicle parked behind the Domino’s Pizza in the Oxford Towne Center, northeast corner of Drahner and M-24.
According to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Dept., the suspects, wearing identical blue sweats, approached the 47-year-old Lake Orion driver around 10:48 p.m., implied they had a gun and would shoot her if she didn’t comply with their demands.
After failing to start the vehicle (a two-door 1999 Daewoo Lanos), the suspects ordered the driver to start it, then get out.
Apparently, neither of the suspects knew how to drive a stickshift, so they fled the scene on foot. One of them stole the driver’s cell phone before leaving.
With the emergency brake disengaged, the car rolled backwards over a curb and into a ditch. Around 1:40 a.m., one of the boys was spotted by the Lake Orion Village Police walking along M-24 near Atwater St. He was taken into custody. As of Tuesday, the other suspect was still at-large.
OSCD Lt. Larry Perry said both suspects will be charged as juveniles.