Police have arrested a man wanted for allegedly carjacking a vehicle with a mother and two young children inside as her husband made a quick run into a drugstore Sunday in Wheeling.
Leon Spektor, 38, was taken into custody about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 300 block of West Chicago Avenue in Chicago. A warrant had been issued for his arrest.
The Chicago Police Department assisted in the arrest, according to Wheeling Deputy police Chief Todd Wolff.
Police on Tuesday had asked for the public’s help in locating the suspect, who had been identified after police reviewed surveillance video from the Walgreens at 10 N. Milwaukee Ave. and conducted a photo lineup with the mother, who was robbed of her cellphone and money. She was released with her children on Chicago’s Northwest Side.
“He took them on a 25-mile terrorizing drive,” Wolff said Tuesday.
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