A man was arrested after he apparently stole a woman’s vehicle that was parked outside a dry cleaners in Plantation while her 10-year-old and 8-month-old daughters were still inside.

Travaughn Andre Gaines was arrested Saturday after, police said, he stole a vehicle parked in front of the One Price Dry Cleaners located at 8263 West Broward Boulevard around 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 15.

According to a warrant for his arrest, it was a rainy day when a woman was going back and forth from her vehicle to the dry cleaners. She left her car running with her children inside to try and quickly enter the dry cleaners.

But officers say that’s all the time Gaines needed to slip inside the vehicle and flee the scene.

Dry cleaners workers described the tense moment.

“A gentlemen that was pacing the parkin

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