Month: June 2016

Chicago police today announced the arrests of 27 people in Uptown for narcotics sales near neighborhood parks and schools. While the arrests were carried out on Tuesday and Wednesday, the transactions took place over the past three weeks by undercover officers who used cash with recorded serial numbers, according to court documents. CWB Chicago has

The city’s false narrative about Sunday’s Pride Parade continues to melt away as more and more videos of the parade aftermath emerge and the Chicago Police Department’s claim of only “seven” arrests has been proven to be 17 arrests shy of the truth. There were 24 arrests according to CWB Chicago reporting. We’ve posted all

Welp. Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s local CVS Pharmacy got robbed today. It’s the second time the store at 4051 N. Lincoln has fallen victim to an armed robbery since May 22. And it’s at least the fifth time the store has been robbed in the past 18 months. Cops think one offender is responsible for the

Here are the latest additions to the list of individuals arrested and charged with crimes in the wake of the 2016 Chicago Pride Parade. All mugshots, names, charges, and other information have been provided by the Chicago Police Department. Note: 2016 Pride Parade arrests #1 thru #19 are posted HERE Bugunkov Arrest #20 Name: Olkesandr Bugunkov

Wilson (Chicago Police Dept) Bail is set at $500,000 for a 29-year-old parolee who’s accused of participating in an attack on an off-duty police officer in Wrigleyville last week. Tremaine Wilson of the Grand Boulevard neighborhood is charged with aggravated battery of a police officer and reckless conduct in the incident, which played out on

Gomez (Chicago Police Dept) Two out-of-state men have been charged after widespread reports of nitrous oxide being sold on side streets near last night’s Phish concert at Wrigley Field. Nitrous—often called “laughing gas” or whip-its—is inhaled for a cheap high. 28-year-old Amado Gomez of Pembrook Pines, FL, is charged with manufacture-delivery of nitrous oxide after

A Friday evening robbery in Boystown ended with police arresting a suspect as well as his companion—a woman being sought by authorities for her role in a home invasion, robbery, and murder near Dubuque, Iowa, in April. Dukes (Chicago Police Dept) Police were flagged down by two robbery victims outside the Center on Halsted around

Whoops! We we wrong—or perhaps just optimistic—when we reported Monday that seven people had been arrested during and in the aftermath of last weekend’s Pride Fest street festival in Boystown. In fact, EIGHT people were arrested. And, yet another video has emerged of Chicago police and Northalsted private security attempting to reign in widely-reported street

As CWB Chicago reported exclusively yesterday, an off-duty police officer was knocked unconscious across from Wrigley Field early Tuesday when he intervened in a disturbance at Clark and Addison. A man and a woman were taken into custody, but the primary offender—who allegedly went through the off-duty officer’s pockets after knocking him unconscious—slipped away. The

An off-duty police officer who intervened in a disturbance is hospitalized this morning after being knocked unconscious by an offender who then went through his pockets as he lay on the corner of Clark and Addison early this morning. Two people are in custody, but the primary offender remains at large, police said. The entire