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FBI agent to thief driving off in his SUV: 'You don't want to do this'

When an FBI agent realized a teenager had snuck behind the wheel of the SUV the agent had left running at a West Side gas station early Monday morning, he tried to let the boy know he picked the wrong car to steal.

"I'm the police! I'm the police!" the agent said. "You don't want to do this."

Still the boy sped off, dragging the agent about a half a block and injuring the agent's right arm, hip and back before getting away in the 2014 Chevrolet Equinox. That's according to a prosecutor who described the theft during a Wednesday hearing in Cook County Juvenile Court.

The boy, who was already on probation, has a lengthy juvenile court record. He has previously been found guilty of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and possession of a stolen car.

Cook County Judge Marianne Jackson ordered him held in custody while he faces the new charges of vehicular hijacking, aggravated possession of a stolen motor vehicle, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and aggravated battery to a peace officer.

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