{"id":231437,"date":"2025-09-16T13:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/231437\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:24:11","slug":"chicago-man-charged-in-armed-carjacking-on-south-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/231437\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago man charged in armed carjacking on South Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/leonard-carson-41.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Leonard Carson | Chicago police <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; A man was charged in connection with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/carjackings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">armed carjacking<\/a> early Monday in Chicago&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/park-manor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Park Manor<\/a> neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Leonard Carson, 41, allegedly carjacked a 22-year-old man at knifepoint around 12: 45 a.m. in the 100 block of East 70th Street, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Carson was arrested roughly 30 minutes later in the same block. He was charged with one felony count of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a weapon along with aggravated assault\/use of a deadly weapon and criminal damage to property, both misdemeanors.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Carson has a detention hearing scheduled for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">No further information was immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this report came from the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/park-manor\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Park Manor<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/carjackings\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carjackings<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Leonard Carson | Chicago police CHICAGO &#8211; A man was charged in connection with an armed carjacking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":231438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[37394,960,5404,6082,5386,1818,50,124765,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-231437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-carjackings","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-cook-county","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-park-manor","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115214199581309826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}