A man who cut off his ankle monitor, fled a murder scene in a stolen car, and then ran over a Chicago police officer who tried to arrest him has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Antonio Gonzalez, 22, struck a plea deal with prosecutors that closes a tangled series of cases spanning from 2021 to 2022.
The story began on May 29, 2021, when Gonzalez was the front-seat passenger in a car that police pulled over for a traffic violation. When officers arrested the driver for not having a license, they searched the vehicle and found a loaded handgun in a bag that Gonzalez admitted was his, prosecutors said. He was charged with illegal gun possession and released from custody.
Four months later, police allegedly spotted Gonzalez behind the wheel of a car that had been hijacked less than two hours earlier. When officers tried to stop him in the Loop, he made a U-turn onto the sidewalk before police boxed him in on the 1100 block of South Michigan Avenue. Because the carjacking victim couldn’t positively identify Gonzalez, prosecutors charged him with possessing a stolen motor vehicle instead of vehicular hijacking. He was placed on electronic monitoring…