January 2015 - Page 3 of 4

NO JACKET REQUIRED: Back In Prison, Parolee’s Accused Of Wearing $1,000 Coat During October Robbery

January 14, 2015 1:47 AM CWBChicago

A parolee is sitting in Stateville Correctional Center, awaiting trial in one of our neighborhood’s higher-profile robberies of 2014. As CWB reported on October 25, a Lakeview woman reported being beaten and robbed that morning by a man who wore a distinctive, $1,000 red Pelle Pelle brand letterman jacket with sequins on its back. The jacket

STOP! SLAMMER TIME: Court Updates On Area Arrestees

January 13, 2015 9:01 AM CWBChicago

Wolfe (Illinois Dept of Corrections) Here are more court resolutions to stories you read about on CWB: • Corey Wolfe, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated robbery for allegedly implying he had a gun when he robbed the CVS Pharmacy at Halsted and Barry last May. The CVS manager followed Wolfe down Clark

ROBBERY ROUND-UP: DePaul FedEx Store Robbed At Gunpoint; Alert Issued In Wrigleyville Mugging

January 10, 2015 8:34 PM CWBChicago

Employees of a DePaul-area FedEx Office store were said to be “pretty traumatized” after getting robbed at gunpoint Friday afternoon. No one was hurt. A gunman walked into the store at 744 Fullerton around 2:40PM and demanded money, then fled in an unknown direction after getting about $100 from the cash register. The store is

COURT REPORT: Resolutions Of Stories You Read About On CWB

January 9, 2015 4:36 AM CWBChicago

Vacha (Cook Co. Sheriff’s Office) Here’s a fresh round of court updates involving stories you read about on CWB: Robert Vacha, the 21-year-old charged with robbing a newly-widowed woman on the Halsted strip in August has reached a plea deal. In exchange for pleading guilty to one count of robbery with a victim over age

BLIND SPOT: Man Beaten, Robbed Near Wrigley Field Overnight

January 8, 2015 12:37 PM CWBChicago

A Boystown resident was beaten and mugged near thisoff-the-beaten-path robbery “blind spot” overnight.Image: @BleacherBunch Welp. Guess we can add Wrigley Field to the list of Chicago’s robbery “blind spots.” Less than 72 hours after Mayor Rahm Emanuel told the media that his son had been robbed in a “blind spot” on the family’s Lakeview street—and

JACKPOT: 24 Stolen Catalytic Converters Found In Crashed Van

January 7, 2015 7:43 PM CWBChicago

Clockwise from top L: Buie, Murry, Perry, Wade, Williamson (Cook Co. Sheriff’s Office. Twenty-four stolen catalytic converters and one saw were found in the back of the minivan that crashed in nearby North Center yesterday morning, police say. (CWB’s original report is HERE.) Five men allegedly fled from the van and were arrested after being

JUSTICE: Sentences Issued In Area Robbery Cases—Including One Of The Worst

January 7, 2015 7:18 AM CWBChicago

L: Townsend; R: Williams(Illinois Department of Corrections) One of the most brutal and tragic robbery incidents that CWB has ever covered is nearing resolution in court. Early on the morning of Sunday, June 23, 2013, two young men were sitting near the Belmont CTA station when a couple of offenders stole one of their phones.

RAHM: Security “Blind Spots” To Be Fixed Throughout City; CAPS Meeting Scheduled For Wednesday (Bring Your Blind Spots List!)

January 6, 2015 1:38 PM CWBChicago

In Rahm Emanuel’s first public comments about the pre-Christmas mugging of his son on the family’s own street, the mayor Monday said “there are some blind spots” on his street and Chicago police are “going to address it, from a safety on the block, not the safety of the house, or us…it’s [the police department’s]

BUSTED: Catalytic Converter Thieves Found On Lake View Rooftop Overnight

January 6, 2015 1:03 PM CWBChicago

Five catalytic converter thieves are in custody after crashing their van near the Lakeview/North Center border shortly after 5 o’clock this morning. The suspects were eventually found hiding on the roof of a home in the 1600 block of Cornelia. Police first became aware of the van around 3AM when a 911 caller reported seeing

NUMBERS GAME: Crime Down 94% In New York City

January 5, 2015 9:01 PM CWBChicago

The Chicago Police Department may be scraping the bottom of the misleading statistics barrel. During a year-end press conference last week, Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy boasted that, while the number of people shot in Chicago rose by a double-digit percentage in 2014, the year will go down with the “second lowest shooting number on record.”

NO JOKE: Robbed, A Blind Man Walks Into A Barbershop

January 5, 2015 10:54 AM CWBChicago

So, it’s come down to this. How does a blind man in a neighborhood as generous and giving as ours find himself walking into a barber shop to ask someone to call 911 because he’d been robbed? Ah, it was probably our fault. Any whom, a blind man walked into a barber shop in the 500

CRASH & GRAB: Area Best Buy Targeted In Overnight Raid; Short-Handed Police Muster 8-Minute Response

January 4, 2015 12:39 PM CWBChicago

The minivan used to penetrate the store remains on-scene this morning. Chicago’s hottest crime wave hit close to home early this morning as a group of thieves crashed a minivan into the Clark Street Best Buy store and stole an undetermined amount of merchandise. The bold break-in and get-away were made easier by understaffing in

(VERY, VERY) SPECIAL VICTIM UNIT: Emanuel Robbery Response Unlike Any Other, Report Shows

January 4, 2015 9:56 AM CWBChicago

The Chicago Sun-Times last night published images of the police report that documents the robbery of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s son near the family’s home on December 19. A review of the report reveals that the Emanuel robbery case sparked investigative requests normally reserved for shooting incidents. Not surprising to CWB readers, though, will be the fact

Month: January 2015