2 carjacking suspects arrested after spree on Chicago's Near North Side

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Chicago police arrested two thieves after a crime spree in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood.

Police said the spree started around 7:30 p.m., when they tried to steal a woman's car in the 1500 block of North State Parkway -- between North Boulevard and Burton Place. Police said the offenders pushed her to the ground and kicked her before a passing vehicle scared them off.

Police said they then carjacked a 33-year-old food delivery driver at gunpoint near Inner Lake Shore Drive and Bellevue Place. They approached him on foot and pulled a gun on him before stealing his 2019 Nissan Sentra, police said.

Officers said the same perpetrators then tried to steal another vehicle in Gold Coast, this time in the 1400 block of North Astor Street -- about two blocks from the site of the first crime. At 7:39 p.m., a 41-year-old man was sitting in his 2008 Audi sedan at the intersection, when the armed men got in the car and demanded his wallet, police said.

The victim handed over his wallet. But the suspects couldn't drive away in his car, because it had a manual transmission.

Officers arrested the suspects and found the delivery driver's car in the 7000 block of South Wood Street in West Englewood.