An armed robbery crew pulled off nine separate robberies in less than two hours on the city’s Near West Side and West Town early Friday, according to a community alert from Chicago police.
Chicago police will reconstitute a multi-agency task force to reverse a rise in carjackings this year. On Friday evening, a 72-year-old man was punched and robbed of his car in the latest hijacking.
Klevontaye White surrendered to police in Old Town last week to face allegations that he raped and robbed a woman at knifepoint in 2018, less than three years after he was sentenced to a five-year prison term for carjacking.