Girl dragged when man steals her automotive as she’s pumping gasoline at Glen Head, Nassau County gasoline station, police say

GLEN HEAD, Nassau County (WABC) — A girl was dragged when her automotive was stolen as she was fueling up at a gasoline station on Lengthy Island on Wednesday.

The incident was caught on digicam in Glen Head.

The 42-year-old girl was pumping gasoline into her car simply earlier than 11 a.m. on the 76 Fuel Station on Glen Cove Highway when one other automotive pulled up subsequent to her.

The girl, who requested to be recognized as Cindy, admits she left the automotive operating, however mentioned she thought she had locked the doorways.

The video exhibits a passenger in that different automotive received out, entered the sufferer’s car, and drove off.

The girl was holding onto the car and was dragged a number of toes earlier than letting go.

“I initially thought that my automotive was not in park and began to drive away so I attempted to chase the automotive down and so they ended up dragging me into Glen Cove Highway,” Cindy mentioned.

She suffered cuts and bruises to her fingers, wrists, and ankles.

“On my knee, I’ve a reasonably large patch of street rash on right here after I was dragged. It hurts and my ankle, I have to’ve landed after I rolled off the automotive or one thing. It looks like I’ll have sprained it,” Cindy mentioned.

Detectives say the person stopped her car close to the intersection of Glen Cove Highway and Glen Head Highway, grabbed her belongings together with a handbag and laptop computer, and received again into the opposite automotive which then drove off.

“Since they knew that there wasn’t a fob within the automotive, they rotated, they dropped it off over there. They took her purse, the laptop computer, all of her enterprise stuff and so they simply deserted the automotive,” Cindy’s husband, Steve mentioned.

Investigators consider there might have been three or 4 folks within the White Porsche Cayenne which they’re now trying to find.

Nassau County Police mentioned the sixth precinct, which incorporates Glen Head, has had 132 vehicles stolen via October of this yr.

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