Minivan full of sleeping children stolen in South Chicago

Sunday, September 2, 2018
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A minivan full of sleeping children was stolen early Sunday from the South Chicago neighborhood, Chicago police said.

A 30-year-old couple flagged down police just after midnight to report that an unknown man had taken off in their van.
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The couple had left the van running at an Amstar gas station near East 89th Street and South Saginaw Avenue while their children, aged 3, 4, 6 and 14, were asleep inside.

Police said they found the van abandoned a few minutes later in the 8900 block of South Saginaw with the children still asleep inside and unharmed.
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No one is in custody.
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