Year: 2015

A 25-year-old Wrigleyville man faces serious charges after allegedly receiving nearly 3 pounds of marijuana worth $19,000 via UPS this week. Prosecutors allege that Brandon M. Combs of the 1100 block of Patterson knew the packages he signed for at 5:30PM Wednesday contained pot. Police raided Combs’ apartment minutes after the UPS truck pulled away.

Grunauer (Cook Co. Sheriff’s Office) Former Wrigleyville bartender Daniel Grunauer, investigators’ prime suspect in many of the arson fires that struck Wrigleyville and Boystown this summer, pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted arson and burglary in connection with two Uptown incidents. Grunauer received a 3 year sentence for trying to set an Uptown dumpster ablaze in

A 24-hours CVS Pharmacy was robbed at gunpoint just four blocks from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s home Thursday morning. Despite the proximity and the fact that a firearm was involved, the patrol cars assigned to sit outside of the mayor’s house stayed right where they were. Because those are their orders. Employees at the store, 4051

A prolific package thief who poses as a delivery driver to gain access to secure buildings is developing quite a reputation in the Halsted/Diversey area. The thief has been around so often, a CWB reader told us this week, “one of the food delivery guys saw [a flyer about the thief] on our condo’s entrance

Seems suspicious. It would have helped if Zach Emanuel hadn’t talked to the cops first. Despite mainstream media reports of progress in the case, no charges will be filed against the muggers who choke-holded, pushed down, beat, and chipped-the-tooth-of Rahm Emanuel’s son the night before the mayoral family flew off on a pre-Christmas Chilean vacation,

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

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

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

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

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

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]