Carjackings are up—and gig staff are getting victimized

Enlarge / A DoorDash Inc. supply particular person arranges an order at the back of a automobile outdoors of a DoorDash Kitchens location in Redwood Metropolis, California. (credit score: Bloomberg | Getty Photographs)

A DoorDash driver named Jeffrey Fang was returning to his minivan in San Francisco after finishing a supply final week when he observed a stranger in his automobile. After a battle, he informed a neighborhood information outlet, one other particular person, an confederate, bought behind the wheel and drove away. Fang’s kids, four and 1, had been nonetheless buckled inside.

4 hours later, after a frantic search by neighbors and regulation enforcement, the minivan was present in one other San Francisco neighborhood, with the kids secure and unharmed inside.