Chicago – A judge in Chicago sentenced a man to 15 years in prison on Thursday for committing three armed carjackings while he was conditionally free for two cases of stolen motor vehicles. Taj Newson, 27, known to be guilty of the charges before Judge Steven Watkins, according to the court reports.
Newson, who has been convicted three times for the possession of stolen vehicles, was conditionally released for two of those cases when he made arrangements to inspect a car that was for sale, so that he could carjack it during a test drive, said civil servants.
According to prosecutors, Newson took a Chevy from 2004 on November 16, 2023 for a test drive and forced the victim from the vehicle in block 4200 from North Pulaski.
“I don’t want you to be injured,” he would have said to the owner.
The hijacking task group of the CPD located the stolen Chevy about two hours later with the help of the city’s license plate reading network, according to the newspaper report from Newson. The police approached the vehicle and kept Newson in block 3600 from West Roosevelt. He would have told the agents that he was “testing”. [the car] For a customer. ”
In addition to that case, Newson was guilty of carjacking another driver in block 3000 of West 52nd Street on October 9, 2023, and the hijacking of another vehicle in a parking lot at a bank in block 5400 from West Belmont on November 7, 2023.
Judge Watkins gave him fifteen years for each case and ordered that the penalties had to be served simultaneously. With good behavior, Newson is eligible for early release after half the time.
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