15-Year-Old Boy Charged With Fleeing Police, 2 Carjackings

CHICAGO — A 15-year-old boy believed to have taken part in the driveway carjacking Nov. 21, 2021 in Mount Greenwood, was arrested Thursday hours after he was involved in another carjacking, Chicago police said.

The teen took a vehicle from a 36-year-old woman in the 7600 block of South Cicero Avenue in Auburn-Gresham hours before the Vehicular Hijacking Task Force spotted him driving the woman's vehicle in the 6700 block of South Evans.

Around 10:17 a.m. Jan. 27, police said members of the Vehicular Hijacking Task Force spotted the 15-year-old driving the woman’s vehicle in the 6700 South Evans. When task force officers tried to stop him, police said he drove away.

The teen was taken into custody, when he was also identified as a participant in a carjacking in the 11600 S. Oakley, where a group of teens took a 52-year-old woman’s Alfa Romeo SUV by gunpoint as she was unloading groceries, police said.

The 15-year-old has since been charged as a juvenile with two felony counts of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a weapon, receive/possess/sell a stolen vehicle, and aggravated fleeing for more than two traffic control devices. He was also issued various traffic citations.

Last week, the task force arrested an 11-year-old boy who was also said to have taken part in the Oakley Avenue carjacking. The owner of the Alfa Romeo described him as a “little boy.”