A West Side man who carjacked a CTA bus and held its driver at gunpoint last year has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, though he could be free in less than three.
Judge Arthur Willis found 34-year-old Cortez Flowers guilty of aggravated vehicular hijacking and aggravated unlawful restraint in a bench trial on December 5, according to court records. Willis recently imposed the sentence, which also includes a concurrent one-year term for a felony driving case Flowers was on bail for when the hijacking occurred.
With statutory credit for good behavior, Flowers’ 10-year term will be reduced to five. He has already earned more than 600 days of credit for time served in Cook County Jail while awaiting trial…