A Chicago-area prostitute allegedly carjacked her client at gunpoint before leading Chicago cops on a high-speed chase, crashing into another vehicle, and fleeing the scene on foot.
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...was out on pretrial release in connection to another car theft while allegedly committing more crimes but missed her court dates.
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...knew her latest alleged victim from prostitution “solicitations prior to this incident.”
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“Chicago police officers found the hijacked SUV, but she allegedly sped onto a highway as the man in her passenger seat tossed a pistol from the vehicle,” the local public safety outlet reported. “The cops terminated the pursuit due to ‘extreme danger’ and recovered the handgun, prosecutors said.”
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After several hours, CPD cops again spotted her in the victim’s vehicle.
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In their detention petition, prosecutors wrote that the sex worker sped away from police “in excess of 100mph.”
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After eventually crashing into another car — and injuring its 24-year-old driver — a police helicopter spotted her and her male passenger run into a nearby building. Cops arrested them there.
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The alleged carjacker has been charged with armed robbery with a firearm, aggravated possession of a stolen motor vehicle, three counts of aggravated fleeing, leaving the scene of an accident involving injury, and aggravated reckless driving.
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Her passenger, later identified as a 22-year-old man, was also hit with misdemeanor charges for criminal trespassing to a vehicle.