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Chicago teen charged with carjacking delivery driver in Back of the Yards

By FOX 32 Digital Staff
Published  April 12, 2022 6:33am CDT
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James Hardin | Chicago police

CHICAGO - An 18-year-old was charged with carjacking a delivery driver at gunpoint last March in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.

James Hardin was accused of taking a vehicle from a 39-year-old delivery driver on March 28 in the 900 block of West 51st Street, police said.

Hardin was arrested Sunday on the same block that the carjacking took place, according to officials

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He was charged with one felony count of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm.

Hardin, of the Austin neighborhood, is due in bond court Tuesday.

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