Charges filed against man and woman in Centerville carjacking, pursuit

Sidney Robert Clayman, left, and Christina Ashley Redwine

Credit: Montgomery County Jail

Credit: Montgomery County Jail

Sidney Robert Clayman, left, and Christina Ashley Redwine

Charges were filed Friday against a man and woman in a Centerville carjacking earlier this week that led to a police pursuit that started in Springboro and ended in Dayton.

Sidney Robert Clayman, 27, of New Paris, and Christina Ashley Redwine, 29, of Centerville, are charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle. Redwine also is charged with robbery and theft, according to a release from the Centerville Police Department.

Both are in the Montgomery County Jail under a $25,000 bond.

A woman called 911 around 12:45 p.m. Wednesday after she said a man and woman took her money and the silver van she was driving from a parking lot at a Centerville shopping center near the intersection of Spring Valley Pike and state Route 48.

The man reached in and took her money, the caller reported. The victim said she got out of the van and chased the suspect, before he circled around the van and jumped in. The van took off with the man and a woman inside. They crashed into another van on the way out of the parking lot, the caller said. The victim, who is from Waynesville, told police the van belonged to her parents.

Law enforcement in Warren County spotted the van eight minutes later, headed west on state Route 73 near Interstate 75 in Springboro, according to a Centerville police report.

Police pursued the van as it traveled north on I-75 up into Dayton, turning onto U.S. 35 before exiting and leading police to the area of Third and Broadway streets. Police briefly lost track of the van before finding it abandoned behind Wright-Patt Credit Union on Third Street. Officers found and arrested two people nearby who matched the descriptions of the suspects near the intersection of West Fourth and Hawthorn streets, the report stated.

The charges against Clayman and Redwine were filed in Kettering Municipal Court, which handles court services for the city of Centerville.

A van stolen from Centerville June 30, 2021, is found abandoned in the back of Wright-Patt Credit Union on East Third Avenue in Dayton. Two people were arrested who were charged July 2, 2021, in the case. The suspects were identified as Sidney Robert Clayman of New Paris and Christina Ashley Redwine of Centerville. JIM NOELKER/STAFF

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