Month: January 2016

It looks like police may be making some headway in the neighborhood’s 3-month-long burglary spree. Henigan (Cook Co. Sheriff’s Office) Officers responding to a garage burglar alarm in the 300 block of W. Barry shortly after midnight on Sunday allegedly found career criminal and six-time convicted burglar Nolen Henigan rummaging through the homeowner’s Porsche. A

A man accused of robbing five women, including a 69-year-old retired Chicago police woman, during separate attacks this fall has reached a very forgiving plea deal. Darryl Walton will receive a 6-year prison sentence in exchange for his guilty plea and, as if that weren’t lenient enough, Walton will be eligible for parole in less

The FBI says the man who robbed a Byline Bank near Diversey and Halsted on Tuesday is responsible for two other Chicago bank heists. Investigators now say the man also robbed the U.S. Bank at 2131 S. China Place in Chinatown on December 28 and the American Eagle Bank at 2255 N. Western in Bucktown

Chicago police are looking for the man who robbed a local bank Tuesday afternoon and fled with an estimated $1,250. The offender entered Byline Bank at 742 W. Diversey around 2:35PM and handed the teller a note in which he claimed to have a gun. Witnesses and police who reviewed surveillance images describe the offender

A Chicago police officer examines the abandoned vehicle near Belmont and Lake Shore Drive. An Uber and Lyft driver was carjacked at gunpoint near the intersection of Sheridan and Pine Grove Monday evening. Police found the woman’s vehicle abandoned in traffic near Belmont and Lake Shore Drive minutes later. No one was hurt. Crime scene

Two men are facing robbery charges for allegedly mugging a man less than 100 feet from the 19th district police station last weekend. Cavin (L) and Powell (Chicago Police Department) 18-year-old Roger Powell and 19-year-old Joshua Cavin are accused of attacking the man in the 3600 block of N. Fremont and taking the victim’s phone and

As expected, additional burglary charges have been filed against one of the three men who are charged with severely beating a 77-year-old woman during a January 9 home invasion in Wrigleyville. Ruff (Cook County Sheriff) Two new burglary counts have been filed against 18-year-old Eli Ruff in connection with break-ins at other homes in the

A former civilian volunteer for the local community policing office who’s accused of calling 911 with a false report of an officer in distress has been accepted into the state’s Deferred Prosecution Program, court records show. Elbrecht (Chicago Police Dept) Patrick Elbrecht, 44, was charged with one count of felony reckless conduct after witnesses told