Month: September 2015

The FBI has apprehended the “Uptown Beach Bandit,” a woman who robbed three TCF Bank branches inside local Jewel stores last month. Federal authorities are being typically tight-lipped about the arrest and no federal complaint had been filed as of Friday morning. Damm Shame Top: Uptown Beach Bandit. Bottom: Damm. Meanwhile CWB Chicago has learned

Chicago police believe that one prolific crew is responsible for at least five armed robberies in Lake View and Lincoln Park over the past week. The team of two or three black men and one black woman have a gun, a dark sedan, and they aren’t afraid to rob two people at once—or even strike

500 motorcycles will be roaring up Clark Street Sunday morning—and we can’t wait to see them. Escorted by vintage patrol cars, the Casper Lauer Police Memorial Motorcycle Run participants will be on their way to St. Boniface Cemetery at Clark and Lawrence, the final resting place of  Lauer, one of the first Chicago police officers to die in the

Thieves broke into at least seven cars and stole an eighth car outright on a single block in Lake View Wednesday. An officer who was called to handle a damage to vehicle call in the 3800 block of Kenmore at 7AM discovered that virtually every car that was parked in the alley between Kenmore and

NOTE: McCaskill’s gun-happy posts have been deactivated by Facebook, so we have removed those links from our story. ——– Two South Side men have been charged with attempted robbery charges in connection with an incident in Lincoln Park yesterday evening. And one of the men has posted videos of strangers being threatened at night with

UPDATE 2:21PM: Robbery charges have been filed against Raheem McCaskill, 21, and LeDonte Washington, 20, in connection with these incidents. Bail information is pending. An investigation into possible connections with other crimes, including robberies, continues, according to a police source. ——— Two men are facing charges after allegedly pointing a gun from a vehicle toward

Chicago police are looking for a man who may be responsible for several random daytime attacks on pedestrians in southeast Lake View and Boystown. Officers began looking for links today after a woman was blindsided and “tackled like a football player” on a sidewalk near Clark and Diversey at 11AM. The victim, who was with

The locations of 8 robberies reported over Labor Day weekend. Gun icon indicates that a firearm was used. Brass knuckles indicates that “only” physical force was used.  Eight robberies were reported in our area over the Labor Day weekend, a dizzying spree that harkens back to the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013 when record-high

The overnight burglaries of Lake View businesses continue, with a jewelry store, a candy shop, and a gyro stand being the most recent victims. CWB Chicago has learned that investigators believe the offenders are disabling alarm systems before entering some of the targeted buildings. The most daring attempt was made at 3:30 Monday morning, when

The Labor Day weekend scored its sixth and seventh known robberies Sunday morning, including yet another robbery at gunpoint. Since Friday night, at least five people have been robbed at gunpoint in the area. Here are the most recent robbery reports: • An officer on patrol came across a man down and bleeding from the

The latest additions to the weekend’s list of muggings: • A man was beaten by three men and robbed of a credit card across the street from Wrigley Field at 5:15 this morning. The victim was near the McDonald’s parking lot at 3620 N. Clark when the offenders began the attack. All three offenders were

A 29-year-old man who was accused of slamming a Wrigleyville woman’s head into the concrete floor of her garage during an attempted robbery last October has received a sentence of five years probation in exchange for pleading guilty to one count of aggravated battery. Prosecutors said Ozzie Scott, who was on parole for armed robbery