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Driver carjacked curbside at Florida’s busiest airport

January 10, 2023 GMT

Terminal C at Orlando International Airport is seen on Sept. 6, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. Officials at the seventh-busiest airport in the U.S. say that bad weather has prevented the delivery of reserve jet fuel.Officials at Orlando International Airport on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022 reassured visitors that contingency plans were in place. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A driver was carjacked curbside at Florida’s busiest airport, and authorities said Tuesday that they were still searching for the suspect.

The armed suspect approached the driver’s car early Monday at the Frontier Airlines’ curbside section at Orlando International Airport, the Orlando Police Department said in a news release.

The driver got out of the car, and the suspect got in and drove away. There was about a 10-to-20-minute time lapse between when the carjacking took place and when it was reported to authorities, the news release said.

The car was found later in an Orlando suburb about 25 miles from the airport, according to the police.