Charges Filed In Munster Carjacking
On July 21, 2021, the Munster Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division secured charges with the Lake County Prosecutor’s Office against a 20-year-old Chicago man for an armed carjacking that occurred in Munster on January 3, 2021, according to Lt. John Peirick of The Munster Police.
Chauncey V. Jordan is accused of carjacking two women at gunpoint while they sat in a vehicle in a driveway in the 8100 block of Monroe Avenue. Jordan and another unidentified male approached the women’s vehicle and Jordan produced a semi-automatic handgun and demanded the women’s vehicle, keys, and cell phone. Jordan and the unidentified subject fled in the women’s vehicle and a short time later, the vehicle was found, unoccupied, in the 11000 block of Lowe Avenue in Chicago, by Chicago Police. The vehicle was processed by Munster Police and evidence located within the vehicle was linked to Jordan.
Jordan is currently incarcerated in the Cook County Jail on unrelated armed vehicular hijacking charges in Cook County. Two counts of Robbery, level 3 felony, one count of Auto Theft, level 6 felony, and two counts of Theft, A misdemeanor, were filed against Jordan. A warrant has been issued for his arrest, Peirick stated.
