Year: 2015

Google Two masked gunmen robbed a Boystown-area convenience store this morning and escaped with nearly $2,000 cash. No one is in custody. Police responded to the 7-Eleven store at Broadway and Waveland around 3:45AM after being tipped off by a silent alarm and 911 callers. Witnesses say the offenders were two black men, about 5’10”

Sharp-eyed neighbors and tenacious cops teamed up to catch a pair of suspected package thieves in Lake View on Monday. Neighbors reported a man taking packages from several homes in the 3700 block of Wayne around noontime. Armed with excellent descriptions of the suspects, their vehicle, and their exact license plate number, cops began scouring

Homicides are piling up at a record pace in Uptown this year after a man was shot dead near Sheridan and Agatite Monday afternoon. The victim, a 20-year-old man, is believed to have been killed by members of the Black P-Stones street gang, according to a source. It’s the second homicide in 16 days for

Brandis (Cook Co. Sheriff’s Dept) Guess who’s back in jail? One of Wrigleyville and Boystown’s most annoying pests—Ryan Brandis—is locked up, charged with attempting to steal bikes from a rack at Belmont and Clark in broad daylight. Brandis, 27, is charged with theft after a group of witnesses intervened and detained him until cops arrived

Dunbar (Cook Co Sheriff’s Dept) A 39-year-old career criminal who got lucky when the manager of Boystown’s 7-Eleven store failed to show up for a shoplifting court date is back in jail. Darnell Dunbar, currently on parole for robbery, was arrested Tuesday morning in Uptown after a man flagged down police and told them that

Aragon (Chicago Police Dept) Chicago police say “numerous CAPS-related complaints from businesses and residents regarding prostitution on Halsted Street” last week led them to address the problem by setting up a “date” with an online escort and arresting him when he showed up. It seems that if police truly want to crack down on prostitution,

Hornezes (Ill. Dept of Corrections) Christopher Hornezes has certainly been busy since getting paroled on January 22nd. First, he had to head up to Racine, Wisconsin, where he’s still facing 2013 charges of theft, cocaine possession, and taking a vehicle without consent. After getting fresh mugshots and a couple of court hearings in Racine, Hornezes, 26, came

Davis In a remarkably swift decision, a Cook County judge has dropped charges against Antonio Davis, the parolee whom local restaurant employees say they found rifling through their boss’ car. Davis was charged with theft of money from the vehicle’s center console.  But, for reasons that are not clear in court records, the judge set

A 24-year-old self-admitted Gangster Disciple with an impressive list of arrests has pleaded guilty to another crime. Aaron Brown received a 120 day sentence for stealing a man’s laptop and iPad on September 20, 2014. His sentence for theft of lost or mislaid property was off-set by a credit of 120 days  for time served.

A Cook County court has found Jarmel Ward, 24, not guilty on all counts in connection with an attempted robbery that took place in Boystown early on October 15, 2013. Ward had been charged with attempted robbery of a senior citizen, attempted aggravated robbery, and unlawful restraint. Based on the victim’s physical description, police arrested

A gunman attempted—but failed—to rob two people in separate Lakeview incidents last night. No one was hurt and no one is in custody. In the first case, a man ran up to a woman’s car, opened the door, pulled a handgun, and demanded her purse. But the offender—described as “very young”—fled empty handed when the

Davis (Cook Co. Sheriff’s Dept) Two cooks at Eat A Pita saw an interesting sight when they looked up at the restaurant’s surveillance camera feed last week: A guy was outside, breaking into their boss’ car. All three men went out to the rear parking lot and confronted the man, who they say took coins