Police Issue Arrest Warrant For Suspect In Wheeling Carjacking
Surveillance video and a victim's photo identification prompted police to name 38-year-old Leon Spektor as their suspect.
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Surveillance video and a victim's photo identification prompted police to name 38-year-old Leon Spektor as their suspect.
The on-duty Monroe District officers pursued the suspects for a carjacking shortly after 9:30 p.m. in the 800 block of North Racine, according to Chicago Police.
Police said the carjacker took the family on a terrifying 45-minute drive, before leaving them unharmed in Chicago.
The occupants of the Dodge Durango that hit Jane Powell didn't bother to check on her; instead they fled on foot. CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez reports.
In each incident, the victims were parking near their homes when they were confronted by armed suspects who forcibly took their cars.
Jacob Brian Barth, 32, of Howard Lake, Minnesota, was charged with vehicular hijacking in connection with the incident, according to Chicago Police.
A man who carjacked a woman's vehicle on the Stevenson Expressway after a hit-and-run crash involving a state trooper last month has been arrested and charged, according to Illinois State Police.
A man was forced out of his vehicle and shot Thursday night in a South Side Gresham neighborhood carjacking near the Auburn Park Lagoon.
Authorities are warning residents about an armed robbery and carjacking that happened a minute apart Wednesday morning in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
Both boys have since been charged with a misdemeanor count of criminal trespass to a vehicle, police said.
Two teenage boys were in custody Tuesday morning, after crashing a car they stole at gunpoint on the South Side.
A man was shot and killed early Thursday after refusing to give up his car to a thief in the Noble Square neighborhood.
Car and train traffic slowed on the Bishop Ford Freeway after a police pursuit of a carjacking suspect led to a police-involved shooting.
The suspects crashed on I-290 near Ashland Avenue as they were being pursued by Chicago Police in connection with several carjackings.
Chicago police were asking for help identifying five suspects in a brazen carjacking in broad daylight in the Bucktown neighborhood.
The mayhem started when a 67-year-old man told investigators his gray Toyota Camry was stolen by four males armed with baseball bats.
The incident occurred at Julian and Paulina in Wicker Park late last Friday.
Selina Gonzalez was dragged several feet, but she and her baby will be okay.
A 12-year-old boy and two 17-year-old boys are facing charges after they shot at Chicago Police officers Monday night in Lawndale.
Lavontay Chavis, 20, and the 17-year-old boy both face two counts of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm, police said.
An innocent bystander was shot during a robbery attempt early Tuesday when he stumbled across a carjacking in the South Loop.
Guillermo Parada, 25, and 22-year-old John Zuniga have both been charged with armed robbery.
Chicago Police said two people stole the Maserati after rear-ending it in the 400 block of North May.
At a memorial for Chris Florez on the corner where he was killed, Leonardo Lucio and his 7-year-old son Angel knelt and lit a candle.
A manhunt was underway in Oak Park, after a man was killed when he tried to stop a carjacking, and was thrown from the side of a moving car.
