{"id":738630,"date":"2026-06-15T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/738630\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:40:11","slug":"family-minivan-stolen-from-downtown-driveway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/738630\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Minivan Stolen From Downtown Driveway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/minivan.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Family Minivan Stolen From Downtown Driveway\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Evans&#8217; minivan being driven away around 4:16 Sunday morning (screengrab from security footage submitted to VOCM)<\/p>\n<p>A local business owner is making a public plea after someone stole a family minivan from his driveway in downtown St. John\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Evans of Fogtown Barber Shop in St. John\u2019s says someone took his white 2024 Kia Carnival in the early morning hours on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Evans, who has a family of six, told VOCM Open Line with Brian Callahan the van contained four car seats, and they\u2019re left with no way to get their young children around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just totally gutted,\u201d says Evans, \u201cit\u2019s very difficult to transport a family of six around\u2026 somebody just took it, \u00a0they took it from under our noses while we slept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evan says he keeps the van locked, but thinks he may have accidently dropped his keys, which are also missing.<\/p>\n<p>He says the night before they came home with their arms full of kids, and he thinks the keys may have been dropped or fallen out of a pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who\u2019s seen the minivan, licence plate number JTS 367, is asked to contact the RNC at 709-729-8000.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Chris Evans&#8217; minivan being driven away around 4:16 Sunday morning (screengrab from security footage submitted to VOCM)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-738630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}