Woman charged in officer's carjacking

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CLEVELAND — An 18-year-old pistillate who has been charged with the decease of an off-duty Cleveland constabulary serviceman during a carjacking connected New Year's Eve is being held connected a $5 cardinal currency surety bond.

Tamara McLoyd, who appeared via video for her arraignment successful Cleveland Municipal Court connected Monday, is charged with aggravated murder successful transportation to the decease of serviceman Shane Bartek, 25, who was changeable doubly during a New Year’s Eve carjacking.

A 2nd fishy who was allegedly driving Bartek’s conveyance earlier crashing it down Riviera Apartments connected Lakeshore Boulevard successful Euclid was arrested and charged with fleeing, receiving stolen property, and galore different traffic-related charges.

Police did not accidental the operator was charged with immoderate crimes straight related to Bartek's death, but his enslaved was acceptable astatine $5 million.

Bartek was assigned to the 5th District and worked patrol. He was hired by the Cleveland Division of Police successful August 2019.

McLoyd besides appeared successful tribunal Monday connected an aggravated robbery complaint stemming from an incidental astatine Happy's Pizza connected Nov. 2, 2021, according to tribunal records.

McLoyd was allegedly progressive successful an equipped robbery astatine the Detroit Avenue pizza store wherever 2 employees were forced astatine gunpoint from the beforehand of the store to the rear of the store, according to tribunal documents from Cleveland Municipal Court. Her enslaved was acceptable astatine $125,000 cash/surety connected the aggravated robbery charge.

Prosecutors said McLoyd committed some convulsive crimes each portion she was nether supervision from Lorain County Juvenile Court.

"This idiosyncratic was convicted respective months agone successful Lorain County arsenic a juvenile for an aggravated robbery with a weapon astatine that constituent excessively and she wasn't locked up oregon we wouldn't beryllium present today," said Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Mike O'Malley. "There is simply a justice successful Lorain County who's going to person to look astatine himself and deliberation was that the champion move."

A preliminary proceeding has been scheduled for Jan. 11 astatine 8:30 a.m.

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