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\nA 34 year-old man is facing charges after two carjackings, a woman and her baby held hostage, and a forty-mile trip from start to finish in two counties.<\/p>\n
\nA 34 year-old man is facing charges after two carjackings, a woman and her baby held hostage, and a forty-mile trip from start to finish in two counties.<\/p>\n
On probation for five years for beating a man with a pipe in 2021, Derick Taylor is back in jail after being arrested for a series of carjackings and assaults from last month. The penultimate charge, holding a woman and her three-month-old hostage as he sped their car down the freeway at 100 miles an hour.<\/p>\n
Police said Derick Taylor\u2019s crime spree started in Louisville\u2019s Russell neighborhood at the intersection of 30th and Market where he blew a stop sign and crashed into another car. Still able to drive it he ended up crashing into a parked car at the Norton Healthcare Sports and Learning Center. His ride now disabled, police said he carjacked another one with a handgun and took off, ultimately ending up on I-64 heading east. Around the Cannons Lane exit police said Taylor hit several other cars.<\/p>\n
This ride now failing, he dumped it behind the Buca Di Beppo restaurant on Hurstbourne. He headed north and carjacked another car at the Petco. Inside the car, was a woman and her three-month-old. He then headed down the freeway at 100 miles per hour.<\/p>\n
Police said he punched the woman, threw her phone out of the car window and forced her to undress, grabbing her repeatedly for the 20-mile trip. The car gave out in Waddy, where Shelby County deputies got a call from the Post Office next to the Waddy Baptist Church where he was trying to into a vehicle behind the Post Office. A Post Office employee yelled at him and at which point he ran off.<\/p>\n
Captain Blake Lisby, with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, said they sent a police dog after Taylor and found him hiding under an abandoned car in a tree line down the hill where he was taken into custody Monday.<\/p>\n
Taylor is being held in the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections under a $500,000 cash bond.
\nSource: WAVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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