A Chicago anti-violence worker has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for a string of violent carjackings in West Englewood that left one victim shot and others threatened at gunpoint.
U.S. District Judge Lindsay C. Jenkins handed down the sentence for 23-year-old Jamari Edwards, who admitted in April to carjacking three people during a single week in August 2022. Edwards also pleaded guilty to federal firearm charges tied to the crimes.
Prosecutors said the first hijacking occurred on August 6, 2022, in the drive-thru lane of a Dunkin’ Donuts. Edwards got into the passenger seat of a man’s car, pointed a gun, and ordered him out…