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Weekend carjackings include Texas couple attacked in French Quarter

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New Orleans Police are investigating another string of weekend carjackings.

In one case, the armed robbers took a Texas BMW from a man and woman in the French Quarter.


"The suspects approached the victims, demanded their vehicle... the victims complied, and the suspects fled in the victims' vehicle," according to a police report.

The car was a white BMW X1 with Texas plates.

It happened just after midnight Friday night into Saturday in the 1300 Block of Dauphine Street.

Another of the carjackings was Uptown.

Shortly before that two men were carjacked in the

2900 block of 2nd Street.  The pair told cops an SUV pulled up to them.

"Two armed suspects exited the SUV demanded the victim’s property. The victims complied. Then suspect one fled in the victim’s vehicle and suspect two fled in the black SUV."

Shortly after 2:00am Saturday morning a man was carjacked in the 6400 block of St. Claude Street.

"The suspects brandished a firearm and demanded victim exit his 2010 Dodge Charger. The suspects then fled in the victim's vehicle."