A man who carjacked a Lakeview driver at gunpoint and was caught hours later carrying a loaded handgun at a Southwest Side mall has been given a 10-year sentence. But state law will cut that in half, and jail credit will leave him with about 2.5 years to serve.
Daniel Cabrera, 20, pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated vehicular hijacking before Judge Michael Pattarozzi, who imposed the sentence.
The case dates to August 21, 2024, when Cabrera allegedly confronted a 35-year-old man and a woman with a rifle in the 900 block of West Irving Park Road around 5:34 a.m. He pointed the weapon at both victims and drove away in the man’s 2016 Chevy Trax, prosecutors alleged…