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Chicago Heights, Park Forest Men Arrested In Chicago Carjacking: CPD

The men were arrested on I-57 in Matteson on Wednesday evening.

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Macharion Autry Moore, 24, of Park Forest, and Davion Riggs, 25, of Chicago Heights, were arrested Wednesday in connection with a carjacking in Chicago, Chicago police said.
Macharion Autry Moore, 24, of Park Forest, and Davion Riggs, 25, of Chicago Heights, were arrested Wednesday in connection with a carjacking in Chicago, Chicago police said. (Courtesy of Chicago Police Department)

CHICAGO — Two suburban men were arrested in connection with a carjacking in Chicago earlier this week, Chicago police said.

The Chicago Police Robbery Task Force on Nov. 5 just before 6 p.m. arrested Davion Riggs, 25, of Chicago Heights, and Macharion Autry Moore, 24, of Park Forest, on I-57 in Matteson. The two were identified as suspects who had carjacked a 32-year-old man an hour earlier, in Chicago.

They were taken into custody and each charged with one felony count of vehicular hijacking.

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Detention hearing was set for Friday, Nov. 7, at the George N. Leighton Criminal Court Building.

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