Chicago Carjacking: Lyft driver attacked, carjacked in Englewood after telling couple not to vape in his car
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CHICAGO (WLS) A Lyft driver said he was attacked and carjacked by his passengers after telling them they could not vape or snack in his vehicle.
Last Wednesday, 56-year-actor and Lyft driver Phillip Sanchez picked up a fare at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Booked for a half-hour ride, the young insisted on vaping in his car despite signs prohibiting that and eating.
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CHICAGO Four people were arrested Tuesday night after two armed robberies in Kenwood on the South Side.
About 10 p.m. a 23-year-old man went to meet a woman he had met online in the 4700-block of South Ingleside Avenue, and when he arrived she brought him to the basement where he was attacked by four males, Chicago police said.
The males punched him multiple times in the face, forced him to drive his 2014 white Jeep Wrangler to the 7800-block of South Saginaw Avenue, before taking his cellphone and kicking him out of the car, police said. The males all wore ski masks and at least one of them was armed with a gun.
A woman and three men were arrested in a plot to beat, rob and steal the vehicles of two men Tuesday after luring them with the promise of hooking up with a woman they met online, Chicago police said.
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