New Lead in Carjackings

Police have released two photos from a surveillance camera of people they would like to speak with about two carjackings in South Jersey.

Officials tell NBC 10 that the people in the photos may have been using an ATM card missing since the carjackings took place.

Investigators in Gloucester County said a man pulled off the carjackings on Sunday. One was in Woodbury, the other was about a mile away in West Deptford.

In both cases, the carjacker targeted women at shopping centers along Route 45, police said.

Police confirmed that a 50-year-old Woodbury Heights woman said she was approached about 1 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of the Acme on Route 45 in Woodbury.

The carjacker made the woman drive for a while, before telling her to leave the car after he took her credit cards, $50 from her purse and a ring.

West Deptford police said there was another carjacking at the parking lot of the ShopRite supermarket on Sunday.

A woman said a carjacker approached her and her young child, and threatened to pepper spray the child if she didn't surrender her ATM card.

The carjacker then kept the card after failing to find an uncrowded ATM where he could force the woman to make a withdrawal.

If you have information, call the West Deptford Police Department at 856-845-2300.

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