Feds charge Chicago rapper PFG Nuk with violent carjackings, kidnapping, machine gun possession

Virgil Gibson, known as rapper PGF Nuk. (Instagram, Chicago Police Department)

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged Chicago rapper PGF Nuk with committing two violent carjackings earlier this year. CWBChicago first told you about the allegations against Virgil Gibson, 22, after state prosecutors filed charges against him in April.

Officials believe Gibson carjacked two people in less than 30 minutes at separate gas stations on the South Side. The first hijacking occurred at a service station in the 5900 block of South Morgan around 11:47 p.m. on April 7. Prosecutors said Gibson, armed with a pistol, took a 32-year-old man’s Chevy Malibu at gunpoint.

About 30 minutes later, he arrived at a gas station in the 8300 block of South Cottage Grove in the victim’s Chevy Malibu. He got out and climbed into a 35-year-old man’s 2022 Kia, forcing the driver to move into the passenger seat at gunpoint, prosecutors said. 

He forced the victim to transfer money to his bank account electronically, made him remove some of his clothing, and then ordered him out of the car, state prosecutors said in a detention petition earlier this year.

Covert Chicago police officers later saw Gibson park the hijacked Kia in the 1600 block of West 55th Street and walk away, according to a CPD report. They said they found him hiding in the janitor’s closet of a nearby phone store.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago today said a federal grand jury had indicted Gibson on two counts of carjacking, three counts of using a machine gun during the commission of a violent crime, interference with commerce by threat of violence, and kidnapping. He will be arraigned on August 12.

State charges are typically dropped when federal prosecutors pursue the matter.

Gibson was on pretrial release for a pending machine gun possession charge when the carjackings occurred. Chicago police said they found the firearm on the floorboard of a car he was driving. The cops stopped Gibson because the plate on the car had been flagged for impound after it previously eluded police, according to his arrest report.