By JAMES MITCHELL
Sunday Times Newspapers
LINCOLN PARK — Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Carole Youngblood on Monday sentenced a 39-year-old parolee to 11.5 to 22 years in prison for carjacking an elderly couple at a gas station.
Christopher Lee Bowens pleaded guilty earlier this month to felony carjacking for attempting in March to take a vehicle from an 81-year-old Korean War veteran. Bowens was identified and taken into custody by police on March 24 not far from the Mobil gas station at the intersection of Fort and Goddard streets.
Bowens, who has previous convictions for weapons and breaking and entering charges, surrendered without incident and admitted to having thrown into the creek a knife used in the attempt.
Police interviewed Barney Trusewicz, who resisted Bowens’ attempt to take his car, inside which was Trusewicz’s 78-year-old wife. Trusewicz struggled with Bowens, who then ran in the direction of Ecorse Creek. Witnesses confirmed to police that the tattoo-covered Bowens was the would-be carjacker.
(James Mitchell can be reached at [email protected])