🌱 Waukegan man’s Facebook Marketplace test drive that ended in prison time
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- Waukegan man’s Facebook Marketplace test drive that ended in prison time
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• Waukegan man sentenced to 6½ years in prison for carjacking woman during Facebook Marketplace test drive (meigsindypress.com) — A man from Waukegan has been sentenced to 6½ years in prison after pleading guilty to a 2024 vehicular hijacking of a woman’s SUV arranged through Facebook Marketplace in Chicago. Authorities say he violently forced the victim from her vehicle, struck her companion, and was later tied to the stolen Chevy through police body-camera footage. 
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