Year: 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

Chicago police Monday issued a robbery alert in which a series of post-Thanksgiving armed robberies in southeast Lakeview are connected with a number of similar crimes in Wrigleyville and Bucktown. On Friday, one victim was shot at, a second was pistol-whipped, and a third was forced to lie on the ground at gunpoint during a

Chicago police today decided to announce that there have been a lot of burglaries in the area, something that CWB Chicago has been reporting for over a month. We’ll get to their alert later. First, though, some details that they aren’t telling you. One group of burglars—and there are believed to be at least two

While you slept off a turkey orgy, three people were targeted by an early-rising armed robbery crew in southeast Lakeview Friday morning. One victim was shot at. Another was pistol-whipped upside the head. And one was forced to lie on the ground while an offender ransacked his car. No one is in custody for the

One victim lost $25,000 worth of jewelry. Another lost three laptops. And a golf supply store had its safe wheeled out the front door on a dolly. Alarm systems were knocked completely off of walls. Those are just some of the latest reports as a series of mostly-residential forcible-entry burglaries continues in Lakeview and nearby

It looks like McHenry County is cleaning up Wrigleyville’s trash. Two men accused of attempting to break into a home in the 3700 block of Kenmore on November 5 were hunted down by U.S. Marshals and McHenry County authorities this week after they allegedly (wait for it) broke into a home there, stealing a gun

Chicago police today confirmed our on-going reports that a second arsonist is responsible for some of the numerous suspicious fires that have been reported in west Lakeview and North Center over recent weeks. Yesterday, the department announced charges against a 17-year-old boy in connection with one fire that gutted a 3-flat in the 1900 block

A 17-year-old juvenile has been charged with eight felony counts of aggravated arson/known person present in conjunction with a fire last week that displaced six people in the North Center area. The fire, which broke out in trash that had been stored under a wooden rear porch, ripped through a three-flat building in the 1900