A Quebec woman’s eyes welled with tears as she picked up her stolen Audi from an Ontario auto store, not removed from the place her automobile smashed via the glass doorways of a mall in an “audacious” theft earlier this week.
Taylor-Anna Kobinger, a resident of Laval, Que., examined the facet mirror hanging limp, the bent licence plate and the scratches etched into the black paint of her 2011 Black Audi A4 customized with a “Ladies on Wheels” window decal.
The licence plate of a stolen Audio is seen broken after a Vaughan Mills mall theft ( Ontario Chronicle Toronto/ Siobhan Morris). “It’s so unfair,” she stated on Thursday after travelling to Vaughan, Ont. to select it up.
“There’s over $10,000 to $15,000 of damage, for sure. I did an estimate already for the paint and that was $7,000 to $10,000.”
Kobinger stated she doesn’t have the cash to repair it and is ready to learn how a lot of the injury her insurance coverage will cowl.
“I’ve put so much effort, money, time. I worked so hard to get it,” she stated.
So as to increase the funds for a down cost on a home, she listed it on Fb Market final month. On Jan. 29, a person responded to the advert and took the automobile on a take a look at drive.
“He was really driving very dangerously and I didn’t feel secure, so I [asked] to change places,” Kobinger stated.
When she did, he accelerated. That was the final time she noticed her automobile.
However on Wednesday, Kobinger bought a name from York Regional Police (YRP) informing her that her automobile was concerned in a theft in Vaughan.
A stolen Audio is seen broken after a Vaughan Mills mall theft ( Ontario Chronicle Toronto/ Siobhan Morris).A automobile with the identical license plate as Kobinger’s drove via the glass doorways of Vaughan Mills mall and down a lot of hallways on Wednesday, in response to YRP, who known as the saga “audacious.”
The suspect then allegedly broke right into a retailer and took a “quantity of electronic devices.”
On Friday, YRP stated there isn’t a new data to report on suspect charges or arrests. On the day of the incident, police stated they have been on the lookout for two suspects, however have been unable to supply descriptions since they have been carrying hoods.
“At a certain point, it has to stop,” Kobinger stated. “To damage stuff that some other people worked so hard for. If you want stuff like that, go work for it.”
With recordsdata from Abby O’Brien and Joanna Lavoie.
