Man impersonates security to hijack two cars
A man impersonating a security official and wielding a gun committed two carjacking robberies early on Thursday, security sources said.
Internal Security Forces sources said that the suspect in the crimes, believed to be in his 30s, forced three 18-year-olds out of their car at gunpoint at 2:00 a.m. on Thursday and forced them to accompany him in his vehicle, a black Golf, in Sahel Alma, a suburb of Jounieh.
The suspect, who claimed to be a security official, allegedly stole a sum of LL140,000 from the three, before releasing two of them in Haret Sakhr and a third in the Kesrouan village of Zeitoun. The sources said that an approximately an hour later, the same man robbed two 18-year-olds in the Nahr Ibrahim region of Jbeil-Kesrouan, pulling off another carjacking and relieving his victims of LL25,000, two cell phones, a watch and a gold chain, before freeing them in Qartaba, Jbeil.
The victims filed charges against the assailant and gave a description of the driver and his car before ISF and judicial authorities issued a search warrant for him.