A woman reported she was carjacked outside Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox Tuesday morning, New Lenox police said.
Police said they were called at 7:50 a.m. to Silver Oaks Behavioral Hospital, 1004 Pawlak Parkway, and learned a patient at Silver Cross Hospital’s emergency department walked out of the hospital wearing a hospital gown.
The patient ran west to the parking lot of Silver Oaks Behavioral Hospital where he confronted a woman standing near her vehicle, police said.
Police said the patient demanded the woman’s car keys, took her vehicle and drove north to Interstate 355.
Using the vehicle’s LoJack location services, a small device that can be remotely turned on if the car is reported stolen, officers learned it was near the patient’s home in Lockport.
Will County sheriff’s deputies located the vehicle, took the patient into custody and then back to Silver Cross Hospital to continue medical care, police said.
Charges of vehicular hijacking and motor vehicle theft were pending Tuesday afternoon, police said.
In October, an 80-year-old man was carjacked outside Silver Cross Hospital where he was just discharged after receiving treatment. Kyle Sears, believed to be homeless, was arrested Oct. 25 in Verona in Grundy County after an arrest warrant was issued.
Sears was ordered detained while awaiting trial at a detention hearing on Jan. 8, court records show. Sears has a pretrial hearing March 5, according to court records.
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