A Chicago man is jailed on allegations he robbed and tried to carjack two women in Lawndale less than a week after a judge ordered him to wear an ankle monitor instead of detaining him on a domestic violence charge.
On December 4, prosecutors asked Judge Sabra Ebersole to keep 19-year-old Brandon Lucious in jail, saying he grabbed his girlfriend, took her phone, and slammed her head into a wooden chair during an argument about “relationship issues.” Ebersole denied the detention request and placed Lucious on an ankle bracelet through the Chief Judge’s electronic monitoring program, court records show.
Six days later, around 8 p.m. on December 10, a woman and her cousin were heading to a grocery store when Lucious allegedly approached and pinned the first woman against a parked vehicle in the 1200 block of South Lawndale Avenue. Prosecutors said he demanded her keys and phone while holding his hand at his waist as if he had a gun. The woman complied.
The woman’s cousin then approached and asked Lucious to return the property, and he eventually handed the items back, according to prosecutors. As the women walked toward the cousin’s nearby vehicle, Lucious allegedly followed them and demanded the vehicle’s keys while lifting his jacket to display what appeared to be a gun…