CHICAGO, IL : 2 in custody after stolen car crashes on SW Side; officer injured on Wednesday, 27th September 2023

A stolen car crashed on the city's Southwest Side Wednesday, and a Chicago police officer suffered a minor injury.

Two men remain in custody after crashing a stolen vehicle police say may have been taken during a carjacking on the city's Southwest Side Tuesday.

It's unclear if the two suspects were responsible for Tuesday's carjacking of a Ford Escort at 48th Street and Kostner Avenue.

Officers were alerted about the vehicle when its license plate pinged a license plate reader along 35th Street.

Details about what happened next are not completely confirmed, but police officials say it was as the driver of the stolen car traveled in the 900-block of West Cermak Road that the vehicle hit a building, becoming wedged between a light pole and the structure.

The driver managed to free the vehicle and traveled for another block before abandoning the vehicle.


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