Overview

• Jeremy Ochoa, 38, faces aggravated vehicular hijacking and aggravated kidnapping charges for endangering a child under 13 years old
• Police say the carjacking occurred around 10:40 a.m. Thursday at a North Lawndale gas station where the baby girl was in the back seat
• Members of the Chicago Police Department’s Vehicular Hijacking Task Force found the stolen vehicle roughly two hours later on the 6100 block of South Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
• The 7-month-old was recovered unharmed and taken to University of Chicago Medical Center for precautionary observation
• Ochoa is due in court Saturday for a detention hearing as prosecutors prepare the case under enhanced child endangerment statutes