{"id":276112,"date":"2026-08-31T23:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276112\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T23:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:40:11","slug":"anonymous-celebrity-pays-towing-fees-for-philly-carjacking-victim-charged-hundreds-of-dollars-to-get-car-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276112\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous celebrity pays towing fees for Philly carjacking victim charged hundreds of dollars to get car back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days after Aniyah Monroe shared\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/aniah-monroe-carjacking-victim-philadelphia-camden\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">her story with CBS News Philadelphia<\/a>, we met with her again. This time, we had a happy ending and a wad of cash.<\/p>\n<p>This all started last month when Monroe was carjacked while making an Uber Eats delivery in Northern Liberties. She was on the phone with her grandmother at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When she got out the car, I heard her scream,&#8221; Dollie Monroe told CBS News Philadelphia. &#8220;And I was like, that don&#8217;t sound good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Monroe was OK. Weeks later, she received a letter in the mail from Camden County police saying her car was in an impound lot in Camden, New Jersey. Then she found out it would cost her nearly $900 in towing and storage fees to get it out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I should not have to pay for my car that was stolen from me,&#8221; Monroe said.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia police told CBS News Philadelphia they located the car three hours after it was stolen but didn&#8217;t notify Monroe because they thought Camden County police would. Camden County police sent a letter Monroe said she received nearly three weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Monroe said she ended up borrowing money to get it out last week, all while a big-name celebrity with Philly ties had seen the story and wanted to help. He contacted CBS News Philadelphia, sent over the money and just asked to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, we delivered the good news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you so much because I really appreciate that because you know, people don&#8217;t have to help me,&#8221; Monroe said.<\/p>\n<p>She showed us a dent in her car and said there was a bunch of garbage inside, and her wallet and daughter&#8217;s car seat were gone. Turns out, Monroe says the tow company waived some fees and it cost her around $600. The anonymous donation covered that and then some.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went and got my car back. My child is safe,&#8221; Monroe said. &#8220;I&#8217;m good. I don&#8217;t have no complaints.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Days after Aniyah Monroe shared\u00a0her story with CBS News Philadelphia, we met with her again. This time, we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7980,915,28,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-276112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-camden","tag-new-jersey","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276112","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=276112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}