Federal prosecutors recently secured a lengthy prison sentence for a Chicago carjacker who seriously injured a bicyclist while fleeing at high speeds, as well as a separate indictment against another man accused of stealing an SUV on Michigan Avenue.
“The news cycle in Chicago is dominated by violence,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Shawn McCarthy wrote in a court memo last month. “Particularly the senseless, reckless and extremely dangerous violent crime of carjacking. Innocent persons living their lives and going about their business have found themselves with the barrel of a loaded gun pointed at them, threatened and hurt as violent offenders forcibly take their vehicles away.”
