A Quebec woman says her Audi A4, which she listed for sale on Facebook Marketplace, was stolen right in front of her eyes and later used in a rampage through Von Mills Mall in Ontario Was.
Taylor-Anna Kobinger from Laval, Ky., spoke to Global News for hours after surveillance video shows a car speeding through a mall north of Toronto, smashing the front entrance.
Kobinger said she put her car up for sale on Facebook Marketplace on Saturday evening, four days before the break-in at Von Mills Mall on Wednesday morning.
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Taylor-Anna-Kobinger from Laval, Quebec, in an interview on Zoom.
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On Sunday, Kobinger said he got tons of messages from people who were interested in his black 2011 Audi A4, including one who wanted to test drive it.
Kobinger agreed to meet the man at a library near his home and said the first test drive went well. He then wanted to test drive it again, but this time on the highway. She said no because the car had a flat tire, but agreed to go around the block a second time.
That’s when things took a turn.
“He started driving dangerously at the second turn,” Kobinger said in an interview on Zoom.
Kobinger and the man then exited the vehicle to change seats when he suddenly returned to the driver’s seat.
“Both of our doors were open,” Kobinger said. “Both his feet were not even in the car. So his left foot was hanging out and his right foot he pressed on the gas.
“Then, he pushed the car so that the doors could be closed,” she continued. “I tried to grab the handle back, but then I slipped.”
He said the theft happened in front of a park and in front of a lot of people and a couple stopped to help him. He gave her his phone to call the police.
Kobinger said that her phone was also in the car when the man left and that when she returned to the scene a short time later, her phone was where she last saw her car.
“It was right there, just standing in the snow,” she said. “As he came back [and] Put the phone back where he stole the car.”
Days later, a video released by York Regional Police shows a black 2011 Audi A4 drive through the glass doors at Entry 6 of Von Mills Mall at about 1 a.m. Wednesday. Police said the vehicle had Quebec license plates X10 SNP.
The video shows the car driving around the mall in a series of edited camera angles. Police said the Audi is then shown exiting through another set of glass doors at Entry 1.
York Regional Police Sgt. Clint Whitney said the two suspects in a car made their way to an electronics store, where they allegedly “ransacked the store and then proceeded to take quantities of electronic equipment.”
The video released by police did not show an active burglary at the electronics store.
In a police update around 4:40 p.m., investigators said the vehicle had been located and would be examined for evidence.
“I haven’t seen it physically. I saw it on camera in a mall, which was amazing,” Kobinger said. “I thought it was in a container like all the other cars in the old port of Montreal. Or in pieces.
Kobinger said York Regional Police called her Wednesday morning, while she was at work, and told her that her vehicle had been used in a robbery at a mall.
He said he had listed his Audi for sale in order to put money down on a house.
Kobinger said, “It hurts because I worked so hard to get that car and I put a lot of money into it to sell it.” “And now everything is down the drain. I lost everything.”
“Yes, the car is there. But how much will it cost to fix it? If it’s even fixable.
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