Feds Indict Jailed Man Over Carjacking At Old Orchard Mall

Skokie IL

02 February, 2021

6:30 PM

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CHICAGO — A Chicago man jailed since his arrest last year on armed robbery and carjacking charges was indicted Monday in federal court in Chicago. Omarion Franklin, 18, has been held without bail since July 2020 on charges resulting from an incident in the Old Orchard shopping center parking lot. At the time, police and prosecutors said Franklin and a younger co-defendant pointed guns at a pair of men as they sat in a parked car in the lot's second level. After fleeing south onto the Edens Expressway and leading police on a chase at speeds approaching 100 mph, the two teens crashed into a parked car in the Old Irving Park neighborhood on Chicago's Northwest Side, more than 9 miles from the mall. Franklin was arrested hours later after a standoff with a SWAT team near his home in the Cragin neighborhood. Related: Feds Indict Lake County Man Over North Shore Carjacking AttemptNo Bail For 18-Year-Old Charged In Skokie Armed CarjackingOld Orchard Carjacking Leads To Chase, Crash, SWAT Standoff: Cops Omarion Franklin, 18, has been held without bond in Cook County Jail since July 2020. A federal grand jury indicted him on one count of carjacking. (Cook County Sheriff's Office)In December, Cook County prosecutors filed additional charges against Franklin in connection with earlier carjacking in Skokie. Police said he was indicted on armed robbery, aggravated vehicular hijacking and aggravated kidnapping over a June 21 incident in the 4900 block of West Fitch Avenue. Franklin is the second teenage carjacker jailed in Cook County since last summer in connection with a North Shore carjacking to be indicted by the November 2020 federal grand jury. He faces up to 15 years in prison on the new charges. Unlike in state prison, there is no parole in the federal penal system.