Month: September 2016

Police are investigating a string of three robberies late Monday and early Tuesday across Lincoln Park, Lake View, and Lincoln Square. No one is in custody. – At 10:30 p.m. on Monday, a woman was beaten and robbed of her iPhone in the 1300 block of West Wrightwood, police said. Nearby residents overheard the offenders

Rodriguez A 61-year-old Uptown man faces five counts of burglary for allegedly breaking into a string of parked cars near Presence St. Joseph Hospital on Saturday morning. Police arrested John Rodriguez of the 900 block of West Lawrence around 6:50 a.m. after a resident saw break-ins happening from a high-rise window in the 2900 block

Hallelujah. It looks like the state of Iowa and a Cook County grand jury are doing something that criminal-hugging Cook County Judge Marvin Luckman did not: They’re going to have Jeremy Dukes face justice. Dukes 21-year-old Dukes and 19-year-old Adrianna Chica were arrested and charged with robbing a man in Boystown on June 24. The

Here are some court updates on cases that we’ve covered at CWB Chicago: Mattina Lakeview Hate Crime Giovanni Mattina, the Lakeview man charged with a hate crime for writing “your Nazi lives here” on a neighbor’s sidewalk and throwing bricks at their door, has pleaded guilty. Mattina received 30 months probation and is ordered to

20-year-old Daniel Vargas got a lot more than he bargained for when he grabbed a woman’s butt in the 1100 block of West Belmont, according to court records. Vargas First, the woman who owns the butt that he pinched called the cops. And, then, she just happened to see Vargas across the street while she

While not from our immediate neighborhood, here are some cases from nearby areas that have caught our attention: Man Pulled Gun During Valet Dispute At Quartino, Prosecutors Say Pekic A 32-year-old Ft. Lauderdale man faces weapons and theft charges for pulling out a gun and taking his car from a River North restaurant’s valet stand

Three local gun-related cases have wrapped up in court recently, and the outcomes are unimpressive. First up, Peter Vitale,  accused of firing a handgun from the roof of a Lincoln Park high-rise in February, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm. The judge handed him a sentence of two-years probation. Man

Newly-received Chicago Police Department documents show that manpower in our 19th district has slipped to 369 officers in September, down five since last month and 99 cops short of the force that protected our area in late 2011. 44th Ward Alderman Tom Tunney said last year that 35 officers would join our district’s decimated force

Police this week sought surveillance video after gunshots rang out during a fight near Windy City Gyros, 3932 North Broadway, early Monday. No injuries were reported. Residents and witnesses reported hearing between three and nine gunshots around 1:30 a.m. and cops soon determined that the incident took place in the restaurant’s parking lot. Witnesses said

Chicago police have launched a death investigation after a passer-by found a man bloody and unresponsive in a Lakeview gangway early Friday. Officers found the man, who appeared to be in his 20’s, unconscious between two apartment buildings in the 700 block of West Briar around 2:10 a.m., police said. The man was later pronounced

A three-time convicted felon who federal prosecutors called “a serious danger to the public” is charged with shooting and critically wounding a Lakeview man during a robbery near Belmont and Racine on August 1. And it’s the second time he’s been charged with shooting someone during a robbery in Chicago! Burch (Chicago Police Dept) Lakeview Charges