A 23-year-old Chicago man accused of teaming up with two relatives to take back a repossessed car at gunpoint is free on electronic monitoring after a judge denied prosecutors’ request to detain him.
Prosecutors said a 33-year-old repo man was dispatched last Thursday to pick up a Chrysler 300 in the 800 block of South Keeler due to delinquent payments. After the repo man began driving away with the Chrysler, Bush allegedly pulled his green Charger in front of the truck on the 800 block of South Kilpatrick.
Three men got out of the Charger, with one pointing a firearm at the repo man and ordering him to “drop” the Chrysler, prosecutors said. The tow truck driver complied. Bush allegedly climbed back into the Charger while his two relatives drove away in the no-longer-repossessed Chrysler.
“Numerous” cameras aboard the tow truck captured the ambush as it unfolded, prosecutors said in a detention filing.
The Charger’s description was entered into a police database, and cops pulled it over in Villa Park later the same day with Bush behind the wheel. Prosecutors said he had a pistol on him and later identified both the gun and himself in still photographs taken from the tow truck’s footage. Bush told investigators the two other men involved were his father and brother, the detention filing said. He admitted he only wanted to get the car back and noted he holds a concealed carry license, according to the document.
Prosecutors charged Bush with armed robbery and aggravated vehicular hijacking. They sought to have him detained while awaiting trial, but Judge Maryam Ahmad denied their request and instead ordered Bush released on electronic monitoring. As of Tuesday, he is the only person charged in connection with the alleged hijacking.
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