An employee is speaking out about the terrifying moments when he said he saw a suspect steal a woman's car with her children still inside earlier this month in Plantation.

Travaughn Andre Gaines, 45, is now behind bars on two counts of kidnapping-confining a child under 13 without parental consent, along with one count each of grand theft auto and grand theft, records showed.

According to an arrest report, the alleged incident happened Sept. 15 when a vehicle was stolen from outside One Price Dry Cleaning in the 8200 block of Broward Boulevard. Two children, a 10-year-old girl and her infant sister, were in the back seat of the running car when it was stolen.

The girls' mother said she was going back and forth from the vehicle to the dry cleaners to put clothing in her car when it was

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