Police are searching for a pair of carjackers who they say escaped after crashing into a police cruiser.
A driver’s car was taken by the two armed carjackers in the area of Northwest 69th Street and North Miami Avenue around 5 a.m. Monday, according to Miami police.
It was not immediately clear if the victim was injured.
A Miami-Dade police officer later spotted the stolen 2004 silver Nissan reportedly at a Sunoco gas station in the area of Northwest 119th Street and 24th Avenue.
When the officer tried to stop them, the carjackers crashed into his cruiser and ran away, said a Miami-Dade police spokesman.
One of the suspects was taken into custody. Police said they are still searching for two others.
No other information about them was immediately available.
The officer was not injured.
Anyone with info on the carjacking is asked to call police.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
