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Chicago police have arrested five people over the past two days in connection with a string of carjackings throughout the Windy City dating back to November 2020, officials announced Thursday.
Chicago Police Superintendent David O. Brown said the five ranged in age from 15 to 39 and were all charged with felonies following their arrest the past 48 hours. Brown announced just weeks ago the department was bolstering its vehicular hijacking task force, adding 40 officers and strengthening community engagement efforts.
Most recently, officials announced the arrest of 39-year-old Robert Pinkston in Chicago’s Riverdale neighborhood. Police said he approached a man, 30, at gunpoint on Nov. 27, 2020 and stole his vehicle. Pinkston was charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm.
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Chicago Police Department on Sunday submitted its third reform report to an independent, federal mandated monitor – filing 93% more documents than in the two prior reports and ramping up efforts in the pace and progress of police reform, officials said.
The police department, otherwise known as CPD, submitted 8,102 documents during Independent Monitoring Period No. 3, the department said. This is a ceiling, not a floor, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said during a Friday press briefing ahead of the report’s release. It should not be just an exercise in the checking the boxes. It should lead to our department s cultural change, should be transformational.
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A 13-year-old boy has been hit with a felony charge in connection with a carjacking in November when he allegedly stole a vehicle at gunpoint from a man in Chicago, police said Thursday.
The teen, whose name was not released because he is a juvenile, was arrested Wednesday morning by Chicago Police Department’s (CPD s) Vehicular Hijacking Task Force and charged with one felony count of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm, police said.
Investigators were able to link the teen to a carjacking on Nov. 21, 2020, when he took a vehicle by force from a 33-year-old man in the Windy City’s Wentworth area, officials said.
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Black women gather at Chicago Police Department headquarters Jan. 11 for a march and rally in support of Anjanette Young, a Black woman terrorized by police when they broke into her home during a wrongful police raid in 2019. Photo:Haroon Rajaee
CHICAGOâCongressman Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) hosted an online virtual forum with the Leaders Network and others concerning wrongful police raids in Chicago.
Participants included members of the Leaders Network; Illinois State Representative 9th District Nicole âNikkiâ Harvey; Senior Pastor Marshall Hatch; Betty Magness of Rainbow PUSH; Thomas L. E. Stovall of Urban Reformers and many other community leaders. Participants want a Congressional inquiry on police raids and the subsequent fallout for victims who have been traumatized in these incidents.
Ride-hailing driver carjacked at gunpoint in Bucktown
By Sun-Times Media Wire
CPD: Teens being arrested for armed carjackings in Chicago, suburbs
Carjackings are exploding in Chicago, the suburbs and across the nation. Even more frightening is who is behind the gun and the wheel.
CHICAGO - Armed carjackers targeted a ride-hailing driver Thursday in
About 8:52 p.m., the 53-year-old drove to the 2100 block of West Cortland Street in his 2015 Infiniti Qx60 when a black Audi sedan pulled up alongside and two males got out, Chicago police said.
One of the males pointed a gun at the man and told him to get out of his car, police said. The man complied and the suspects drove off in his Infiniti.