Arrest made in armed carjacking of Health Department employee

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — An Indianapolis man is facing criminal charges in connection to the armed carjacking of a man working for the Marion County Public Health Department, court documents and police information show.

Devon Beverly, 40, was scheduled to be formally charged Monday morning in Marion Superior Court 27.

In connection to the armed carjacking, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office on Friday filed charges: a felony count of armed robbery, and a lesser felony count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon. Prosecutors also on Friday filed an additional felony count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon in connection to a gun being found in the stolen SUV in which police captured him on Wednesday.

Court documents show an IMPD detective investigated the armed carjacking just before 10:45 a.m. July 25 in the 4100 block of Elmont Terrace. That’s at the Carriage House East apartments off 42nd Street between North Mitthoefer Road and North German Church Road on the city’s northeast side.

The Health Department employee was sitting in his parked car and talking on the phone when Beverly walked over and asked if he could use the phone, court documents say. The employee declined and said he was using the phone for work.

Beverly walked to a trash bi...