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Reactor operator arrested for carjacking

Coal City man pointed gun at woman, took her vehicle

WOODRIDGE, Ill. — A Coal City man with ties to Exelon's Dresden Generating Station was arrested in Woodridge after police said he carjacked a woman in a Kohl's parking lot.

At about 9:55 p.m. Wednesday, May 9, according to a Woodridge Police Department press release, officers responded to Kohl's, located at 1001 W. 75th St., where an aggravated carjacking was reported.

An armed suspect, later identified as Michael Buhrman, 31, reportedly approached and pointed a handgun at a young woman who was seated inside a parked 2000 Pontiac Grand Am, ordered her out of the car at gunpoint and drove away.

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