(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A 19-year-old from Chicago has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for carjacking a rideshare driver at gunpoint last year.
Noah Ransom was with four other men early April 9, 2022 getting picked up at a Chicago hotel, prosecutors said, when Ransom pulled a gun on a rideshare driver and took his vehicle.
Illinois State Police located him about 90 minutes later on the city's South Side, but a high-speed chase ensued. Ransom eventually was taken into custody in the West Loop.
He pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal carjacking and firearm charges. A federal judge on Tuesday to 6 ½ years in prison.
"Committing a senseless act of violence like carjacking is a serious crime that will earn you a substantial federal prison sentence," Chicago's Acting U.S. Attorney Morris Pasqual said in a news release. "We are working tirelessly with our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners to pursue, prosecute, and detain violent carjackers."
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