Chicago-A man from a suburbs accused of having beaten a 15-year-old boy during a carjacking while a complicit pulled the child’s mother out of the family car, has been sentenced to a probationary period of four years. Judge Carol Howard sentenced the 34-year-old Douglas Cluchey on Thursday after he had guilty for one indictment for vehicle hijacking, according to the court reports.
In October 2021 the boy drove his mother to a restaurant in block 800 from West Chicago Avenue and then went inside to pick up their food order. While he was in the restaurant, a woman dragged his 49-year-old mother out of their Honda pilot from 2011, stamped her foot and claimed to have a gun, according to the prosecutors. Cluchey is said to have jumped on the driver’s seat.
When the boy came out to investigate the commotion, Cluchey hit him twice in his face, the prosecutors claimed. Then he and his complicit drove away by car. A security camera registered the carjacking and the characteristic tattoos of Cluchey are visible on the images, according to the prosecutors. But neither the boy nor his mother could identify Cluchey as the car thief.
Doctors in St. Mary’s Hospital treated the young for a concussion and the mother for an injured ankle and bruises on her body.
The police have localized the SUV in a parking lot in a suburb of Hillside by following a GPS device. The car was ‘filled with drugs and used needles’ and Cluchey was on the driver’s seat, a prosecutor said during Cluchey’s first performance before the court a few days later.
According to information from prosecutors, the Kaping Cluchey’s fifth conviction for crime has been since 2010. His earlier cases include two burglaries, theft and Mafia actions.
The case continued to run for more than three years because Cluchey had not appeared in court since December 2021. An order was issued and the case was suspended until last June. The reason for the absence of Cluchey is unclear.
The prosecutors dropped eleven other crimes with which he was confronted with the carjacking store, including the most serious indictment for heavy vehicle hijacking with a passenger under the age of 16.
