CHICAGO — Late final 12 months, we informed you about Cedric Johnson, a person accused of carjacking and gun possession, after Decide William Fahy rejected the state’s detention request and despatched him dwelling on digital monitoring.
Final week, Johnson as soon as once more appeared earlier than Fahy. Prosecutors mentioned, nonetheless on digital monitoring, he received caught with a gun whereas driving in an Uber. That also wasn’t sufficient to persuade Fahy to maintain him in jail on the brand new allegations. Though the choose did conform to detain Johnson till the choose dealing with the carjacking case had an opportunity to assessment the matter.
Right here’s the inside track.
Again on December 23, a 55-year-old girl was exterior her automobile within the first block of West Hubbard when a person jumped behind the wheel and drove away, knocking her to the bottom and inflicting a head harm, in response to a Chicago police report.
Lower than an hour later, cops discovered the girl’s BMW X1 crashed close to the 6300 block of South Regular.
Two witnesses informed cops they noticed a person run from the BMW’s driver’s seat holding a firearm. Officers adopted the driving force’s route and arrested Johnson on the rear porch of a boarded-up, deserted dwelling. The cops additionally discovered a loaded handgun with an prolonged ammunition journal beneath the porch steps, prosecutors mentioned.
What’s extra, CPD discovered a video displaying Johnson standing throughout the road from the carjacking scene about two minutes earlier than the BMW was taken, officers mentioned.
Citing the violent nature of the carjacking, the allegations that police discovered a gun close to Johnson, and the truth that Johnson was adjudicated delinquent for theft as a juvenile, prosecutors requested Fahy to maintain Johnson in custody throughout a detention listening to on Christmas Day. Fahy spiked that concept and despatched Johnson dwelling on an ankle monitor.
Final Thursday, June 6, Chicago law enforcement officials noticed a automobile with no entrance plate in site visitors. They made a U-turn, realized the automobile additionally had a non-functioning brake mild, and pulled it over, in response to a CPD report.
In response to the report, the driving force was working for Uber, and his backseat passenger was Cedric Johnson.
Detecting the scent of burning pot and eyeing an aerosol product marketed to hide the scent of burnt pot contained in the automobile, the officers requested the driving force and Johnson to step out, the report mentioned.
Police mentioned they discovered a loaded handgun with an prolonged journal beneath the rear of the driving force’s seat, near the place Johnson’s ft had been. The seat design made it inconceivable for the gun to slip from the entrance of the seat to the again, main the cops to conclude that Johnson had possession of the weapon, in response to the report.
Each males denied possessing the gun, and the Uber driver mentioned there shouldn’t be any weapons within the automobile.
In court docket the subsequent day, prosecutors charged Johnson with aggravated illegal use of a weapon, and so they as soon as once more requested Fahy to detain him on the gun cost. And, as soon as once more, Fahy mentioned no. As a substitute, Fahy ordered Johnson to go on digital monitoring within the new case.
Nonetheless, the choose did detain Johnson for 3 days for violating pretrial launch within the carjacking case. Throughout a second detention listening to on Monday, Decide Alfredo Maldonado agreed to maintain Johnson in custody.
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