Lexus car theft gone bad
BY TINA SFONDELES Staff Reporter tsfondeles@suntimes.com December 13, 2011 1:08PM
Chicago Fire Dept. paramedics and Chicago Police officers with injured defender in stolen auto crash at Erie and Wells Street, Tuesday, December 13, 2011. | John H. White~Chicago Sun-Times.
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Updated: January 15, 2012 8:12AM
The police say a joyride in a stolen Lexus left a 16-year-old girl in critical condition and another teen and a man in police custody after the SUV they stole crashed into a pole Tuesday morning in River North.
Police said the injured teen — along with a 14-year-old girl and a 24-year-old man — stole a Lexus from the 800 block of Hudson, crashed into a parked Bentley at Wells and Chicago and struck a pole at the southeast corner of Erie and Wells around 11 a.m. Tuesday.
The owner of the stolen Lexus SUV called the police after he spotted one of the girls driving it. The police pursued and, at some point, they say the man got behind the wheel.
One of the teens was pinned in after the SUV smashed into a pole, according to the police. She was taken to Northwestern Memorial hospital in critical condition, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.
There were no other injuries.
The man and the 14-year-old girl were being questioned by the police Tuesday, and the injured teen was under police guard at the hospital.
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