Charges Filed Against Three Men In Carjacking Case In New Lenox: Cops

NEW LENOX, IL — New Lenox police announced Tuesday that it had obtained arrest warrants for three men in connection to a March carjacking, according to a news release from NLPD.

Police charged: Elijah Castle, 22, of Chicago Heights; Devante Davis, 27, of Chicago; and Narquis Thomas, 21, of Chicago with more than a dozen felonies each, including aggravated vehicular hijacking, armed robbery and aggravated unlawful possession of a stolen motor vehicle, according to NLPD.

On March 10, Illinois State Police joined a vehicle chase started started by the Grundy County Sheriff's Office for the theft of multiple vehicles in the area. That chase went through New Lenox, where one of the fleeing vehicles, a stolen BWM, crashed in the area of Interstate 355 and Interstate 80.

A total of six people, including two gunmen, got out of the stolen BWM and approached a New Lenox resident near Edmonds Street who had two children with her, police said. The woman was forced at gunpoint to hand over the keys to her SUV, according to police.

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As the woman was being carjacked, another vehicle with two more children inside pulled into the driveway, police said. The men tried to take that vehicle, as well, but the driver was able to escape, police said. No one was hurt during the carjacking and attempted carjacking.

The carjacked woman's SUV was found about 20 minutes later crashed in Markham, where the six men were seen fleeing on foot, police said.

Castle was already in custody Tuesday in the Illinois Department of Corrections on unrelated charges, and Thomas was in the custody of the Cook County Department of Corrections, also on unrelated charges, according to police. Davis has yet to be arrested.

Police said a fourth person charged is a juvenile. The juvenile's name has not been released publicly, but police said that person has been identified and charges are pending from the Will County Juvenile State’s Attorneys.

The NLPD is still working on the identification of the remaining two men.

The six people involved in the New Lenox carjacking are also accused of robbing car dealerships in Schaumburg, Springfield, Lincoln, Bloomington, Peoria and Manchester, Missouri, according to police. Additional charges against them may be coming from those agencies, as well, police said.