Month: December 2015

While there have been a handful of local burglary arrests over the past week, reports of home break-ins continue. And, based on the number of police reports being filed and surveillance images being sent our way, there are many more prowlers still on the loose. Here’s a gallery of videos and images that we’ve received

A 19-year-old Humboldt Park man is charged with burglary after allegedly breaking into an occupied Lincoln Park apartment, causing a woman who lives there to barricade herself into a room and text an acquaintance who works in law enforcement for help. Craig (Cook Co. Sheriff’s Dept) Eric D. Craig faces one count of burglary. Bail

A 19-year-old parolee has pleaded guilty to the brutal beating and robbery of a man outside of Nookie’s Tree restaurant on Boystown’s Halsted strip this summer. Sparks (Il Dept. Of Corrections) You may remember when the robbery victim told us his story days after the mugging. Richardson C. Sparks of the Auburn Gresham neighborhood was

Bail is set at a whopping $450,000 for a career criminal who’s now charged with three counts of residential burglary, with one charge stemming from a November 12 break-in in the 4100 block of N. Kenmore Ave. A fugitive task force found 44-year-old Earl Hampton hiding under bags of clothing in a closet in his

A man currently on parole for aggravated battery to a police officer is now charged with threatening to slit a man’s throat at the Center on Halsted (COH), 3656 N. Halsted Street. A COH employee asked Shaun B. Phillips to leave the facility after Phillips created a disturbance, but Phillips refused to leave and told

Darryl Walton, the 23-year-old South Side man who’s accused of pulling off a string of robberies in Lakeview and Roscoe Village last month, is now facing additional charges. A 69-year-old Lakeview woman has positively identified Walton as the man who robbed her in an alley behind the Brewster Apartments at Diversey and Pine Grove around