Crime & Safety
Orland Man Charged in Connection With Tinley Carjacking
Tinley Park police arrested a man on Friday who they said played a part in stealing a car from an old lady after threatening to shoot her.
Police have arrested a man in connection with a carjacking that occurred last week outside a local dollar store.
Michael J. Kroll, 23, of Orland Park, was arrested Friday and charged with one count of vehicular hijacking, according to a news release sent today by . He appeared in a Bridgeview courtroom this morning, where his bail was set at $750,000.
Though the report doesn't detail Kroll's role in the hijacking, it says charges stem on Harlem Avenue where two men approached a woman in her 90s and asked her for directions. The woman was getting into her car at the time, police said.
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One of the men ordered the woman out of her 1999 Oldsmobile Cutlass and grabbed her purse before driving away. The duo threatened to shoot the woman but didn't show a gun, police have said. The woman wasn't seriously injured.
An official from the was not immediately available for comment around 5 p.m.
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