SUN | Gone in 19 seconds: Baltimore County Police warn drivers about car thefts

BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD (WBFF) — Two women left a car running outside a Towson coffee shop Thursday. Just 19 seconds later, it was gone.

The man behind the wheel wasn’t a thief, but a Baltimore County Police detective demonstrating how quickly an unattended vehicle can disappear while its driver runs a simple errand.

As police public affairs interns Kayla Clarke and Lola Selfe headed inside the shop, Detective Trae Corbin emerged from a nearby alley, calmly walked over to their vehicle, opened the door and drove away.

Clarke and Selfe didn’t return to the parking space until more than four minutes later. When Sun reporters repeated the coffee run, it took more than six minutes for the driver ordering coffee to return to the parking spot.

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