Father Speaks Out After Children Escape From His Stolen Car
Police have released the name of the woman they say stole a car with two children inside Monday. She is 33 year old Portlander Iosha Millage .
Portland Police say the 9 and 11 year old children were in the back seat of their dad’s car, which he left running while he went into a business Monday afternoon on North Interstate Avenue. When he returned, he saw a woman get into the driver’s seat of his car. He tried to stop her, but she drove off with his two children. The father, who did not want to release his name, implores other parents, “Don’t take the chance I took. Even though it was outside of a school, that doesn’t mean that things like this can’t happen.”
About ten minutes later the car stopped at a stoplight at NW and 15th Avenue and Glisan. The kids jumped out of the car, and flagged down a person nearby, who called 911.
“Those 10 minutes, you know, couldn’t it came quicker. It felt like it was. going by seconds. Those 10 minutes felt like hours. I don’t know where I would be without my kids right now,” said the father.
A short time later, police and deputies spotted and chased the driver in the stolen vehicle, on I-5 into Washington State, they stopped her near the Northeast 134th Street exit and arrested her. The children are not hurt. Their dad suffered minor injuries to his hand.
