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Published on April 27, 2024
Chicago Man Sentenced to Over 11 Years for Series of Carjackings and UPS Truck RobberySource: Illinois Courts

A Chicago crime spree that included carjacking four vehicles and sticking up a UPS truck has led a local man to be slapped with an eleven-year prison sentence. Jaheim Henyard, 22, pled guilty to the series of crimes spanning from the summer of 2020 through the ensuing months, with his reign of terror spreading across Chicago and neighboring towns, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Illinois.

In one harrowing incident, the court heard how Henyard, along with his accomplices Darius Young and Xavier Tate, robbed a UPS driver at gunpoint, making the driver lie face down while they looted the truck for boxes before making their getaway; this heist took place in the suburban serenity of Oak Park on August 21st, 2020, but this wasn’t Henyard’s first or last crime—he had carjacked another vehicle in a Westchester supermarket parking lot in December 2019 where an exchange of gunfire ensued between Henyard's accomplice and the armed victim, In July of the following year Henyard tried but failed to seize another car in Oak Park.

The Department of Justice reports that U.S. District Judge Sara L. Ellis dealt out the sentences this month, with Henyard receiving eleven years and three months, Young, 28, of Berwyn, Ill., four years, and Tate, 27, of Chicago, seven years and nine months behind bars for their crimes. The defendants had all entered guilty pleas, accepting responsibility for the UPS robbery and the string of carjackings.

The FBI along with local police departments in Chicago, Oak Park, and Cicero pieced together the case, which also received assistance from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, on the day Henyard got his due. Morris Pasqual, Acting United States Attorney, and Robert W. “Wes” Wheeler, Jr., Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago FBI Field Office, were wingmen in announcing the sentences, according to authorities. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Charles W. Mulaney and Simar Khera represented the government in court.