Cops Probe 2 Simultaneous Armed Carjackings

Parsippany Police say they are investigating two carjackings in the township.

Officers responded to Paul Miller Land Rover on Route 46 just after 8 p.m. Wednesday to look into a report of an employee who had just been carjacked at gunpoint, according to a police statement. While there, they received word of another carjacking—this one in progress—at the nearby Wawa on New Road.

At the Land Rover dealership, an employee told officers that while he was parking a 2013 Range Rover Super Charger, a white car (believed to be an Infiniti) pulled up and two men armed with handguns and wearing bandannas over the lower half of their faces exited the white vehicle and demanded the keys to the Super Charger. The employee reportedly turned over the keys and both vehicles exited, going out onto Route 46.

Police said the employee was unharmed and that the retail value of the Super Charger was $111,416. 

At the Wawa, a separate victim told police that he was sitting in his parked 2013 BMW 750i when a man wearing a ski mask, dark pants and a white long-sleeved shirt approached his driver’s side window from the rear of the vehicle, pointed a handgun at him and told him to exit the car. Police said there was a brief struggle with the carjacker, but the victim was able to break free from the assault and get into the Wawa, and the suspect drove off in the BMW.

Police said the Wawa victim was treated by Parsippany’s Rockaway Neck Volunteer Ambulance Squad and transported to Morristown Medical Center for further evaluation and treatment.

Police estimated the value of the stolen BMW as approximately $80,000. 

The two crimes are connected, added PPD spokesperson Ptlm. Earl Kinsey.

Detectives from the Parsippany Police Department’s Investigative Division as well as detectives from the Morris County Sheriff’s Department’s Criminal Investigative Division are investigating the crimes. Anyone with information regarding the incidents should contact the Parsippany Police Department at 973-263-4300 or send an email.