Carjacking Arrest Brings Hope For Answers From Family Of Northwest Side Hit-And-Run Victim
A carjacking arrest is bringing new hope for answers to the family of a hit-and-run victim.
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A carjacking arrest is bringing new hope for answers to the family of a hit-and-run victim.
Veronica Harden, 36, has been charged with two counts of aggravated vehicular hijacking, two counts of aggravated battery, and one count of aggravated kidnapping.
Police said a 40-year-old woman left the keys in her car when she got out at a gas station at 75th and Yates around 5:30 p.m. That's when someone hopped into the Malibu and took off, her son and daughter still inside.
Police said a group of bold robbers broke into a Des Plaines beat a man and left him in the snow as they carjacked three luxury cars he was delivering.
The teen, whose name is not being released because he is a juvenile, is charged with three counts of aggravated vehicular hijacking and one count of aggravated battery.
Police said a male gunman tried to carjack a male victim around 6:15 a.m. on the 2300 block of North Sacramento Avenue.
A 14-year-old girl was charged Tuesday in three carjackings and with possessing a stolen vehicle.
A judge ordered the teens held in custody. Another hearing is set for Tuesday.
Two teens were charged in a carjacking in the Kenwood neighborhood.
Chicago police said the equipment does not belong to CPD.
Police said Aurelio Davila was arrested shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday on the 2500 block of West 23rd Street, after he was spotted driving a stolen vehicle.
A Chicago man has been charged in connection with a carjacking in Orland Park Friday.
A food delivery driver was carjacked late Sunday in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
A suspect who led suburban police officers on a car chase and shot at them is in police custody.
Police said Taevon Abston was arrested shortly after midnight Wednesday on the 100 block of North Laramie Avenue, after officers spotted him getting into a vehicle that was stolen in a carjacking on Feb. 4.
Naperville police said officers spotted a vehicle parked in a lot on the 1400 block of Fairway Drive on Thursday and determined it had been stolen during an armed carjacking in Chicago.
Anthony Blackburn, of the West Garfield Park neighborhood, has been charged with two counts of aggravated vehicular hijacking, one count of attempted aggravated vehicular hijacking, and one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm.
Police said a 48-year-old man was sitting in his parked car on the 1900 block of North LaCrosse Avenue at about 8:35 p.m., when two teens walked up, and one of them pulled out a gun and told him to get out of the vehicle.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested Tuesday in a carjacking in the West Woodlawn neighborhood in December.
An assailant fired shots Monday afternoon while carjacking a woman in Noble Square, police said.
A woman was the victim of a carjacking in Wicker Park Sunday night.
Police on Sunday arrested a suspect after coming across a car in the Greater Grand Crossing community that had been used in a previous carjacking.
Chicago police are searching for two carjackers who held a rideshare driver at gunpoint and then stole his vehicle in West Town Friday night.
Police said a 33-year-old man was making a delivery around 10 p.m. on the 100 block of North Lamon Avenue, when three teens pointed guns at him, and stole his vehicle and personal belongings.
Another carjacking was reported, this time in Chicago's Ukrainian Village.
