Stolen vehicle charges have been filed against two Harvey men, one of whom fled police and was captured in a manhunt Wednesday afternoon in Carpentersville, officials said.
The incident began about 1 p.m. Wednesday when Carpentersville police officers, checking the registration of a suspicious vehicle in the Fox View Apartment complex, learned it had been reported stolen in Freeport, police Chief Michael Kilbourne said. When they approached the car, Corbyn Parnell-Humphrey, 20, and Keaunte J. Ashley, 20, took off on foot, he said.
Parnell-Humphrey was stopped but Ashley — who appeared to have a gun in his waistband — escaped into a wooded area northeast of the apartment complex, Kilbourne said.
Officers established a perimeter around the area and called in additional police to conduct a search, he said.
About 2:25 p.m., Ashely was seen in a back yard in the 300 block of Amarillo Drive and fought police trying to take him into custody, according to reports. He was found to have a loaded 9 mm handgun, reports said.
Parnell-Humphrey has been charged with two felony counts of receiving, possessing or selling a stolen motor vehicle and a misdemeanor charge of no valid driver’s license.
Ashley faces two counts each of aggravated battery to a peace officer and receiving, possessing or selling a stolen motor vehicle and one count each of carrying or possessing a firearm, possession of a firearm without an FOID card and resisting, obstructing a peace officer, causing injury. All of the charges are felonies.
Both appeared in Kane County bond court Thursday, where bail was set at $10,000 for Parnell-Humphrey and $35,000 for Ashley.
Erin Sauder is a freelance reporter for The Courier-News.
