CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A Chicago man whose car was stolen Monday managed to track it and caught the thief, but not before she crashed.
Victor Andrade had left a spare key in his Honda CR-V in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood.
He was in a meeting, when he noticed on an app on his phone that his car was moving. He got into his brother's car and followed for less than a mile. The teen girl behind the wheel of his car then crashed.
“You just crashed my family car!” Andrade yelled at the girl.
“I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” the girl said.
“I was at work!” he said.
“I’m sorry!" the girl said again.
Andrade shared his cellphone video with CBS 2, which showed that exchange seconds after the girl crashed and jumped out of the vehicle.
“She tried, you know, running away,” Andrade told CBS 2. “I tried to be careful with telling her that she needed to stay. She needed to be responsible.”
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On the cellphone video, Andrade can be heard saying: “You’re going to pay for my car...I need your ID!”
“I don’t have my ID on me,” the girl said.
“I need something – your phone number, something,” Andrade said.
"Please, just let me go," the girl said.
Andrade tried calming her down by saying, “I know it’s scary right now, you know, that you’re going to get arrested, but you have to take responsibility.”
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He held the girl until police arrived and arrested her.
The car was totaled.
Andrade works maintenance for a number of buildings and he gets from job to job with that car.
He has started a GoFundMe to help him buy a new car.
The teen girl was identified by police as 18-year-old Yuliana Correa of Albany Park. She faces a felony count each of possession of a stolen vehicle and unlawful possession of a credit/debit card, according to Chicago police.
Correa also faces of misdemeanor count of driving without a license and citations for driving the wrong way down a one-way street, striking an unattended vehicle, and operating an uninsured vehicle.
She was expected to appear in court later Tuesday.