{"id":267552,"date":"2026-08-18T14:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267552\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:50:06","slug":"baby-left-on-side-of-road-after-thief-steals-car-with-child-still-inside-in-philadelphias-east-falls-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267552\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby left on side of road after thief steals car with child still inside in Philadelphia&#8217;s East Falls section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA &#8212; A one-year-old boy is safe after police say his mother&#8217;s car was stolen in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The mom had briefly stepped out of the vehicle while the child was still inside when the suspect took the car, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It happened in the 3400-block of Henry Avenue just after 11 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The mother had a tracker in the vehicle, which led police to the 4000 block of -Parkside Avenue in West Philadelphia, where the car was found abandoned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">However, the child was not inside the car seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say his grandparents found him unharmed about a half-hour later, sitting on a sidewalk, a full block from where the car was stolen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials say they believe the thief didn&#8217;t realize the child was inside when the car was stolen, and dumped the baby on the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Investigators are reviewing surveillance video and collecting fingerprints and DNA evidence from the car, hoping to track down the car thief.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8212; A one-year-old boy is safe after police say his mother&#8217;s car was stolen in Philadelphia. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[112787,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-267552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-112787","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}