Month: July 2017

For at least the third time this year, Chicago police are warning the public of robbers who pose as ride-hailing service drivers on the North Side. The offenders tend to work late at night and in nightlife districts where victims are more likely to be intoxicated and less thorough in screening their vehicles, a source

Police say Jecorrey Duncan had an unusual assortment of supplies in his backpack. | CPD; Google It all started so simply. Cops working the Mag Mile around 12:30 a.m. on July 8 stopped a group of men outside the Drake Hotel at 961 North Michigan after seeing one of the guys toss a plastic bottle

An Uptown man pointed a look-alike handgun at a woman near Montrose Beach and pulled the trigger, causing the woman to think that she was going to be shot, prosecutors said. Tucker | Chicago Police Dept Christopher Tucker, 32, was arrested around 7 p.m. on July 14 in the 4400 block of North Simmonds Drive.

A 54-year-old North Center man is charged with teasing a police animal (yes, that’s what the crime is called) and other misdemeanors after a dust-up with cops outside of Wrigley Field on Monday. Marshall | Chicago Police Dept Mounted police officers ordered Roland Marshall to get out of the middle of Clark and Addison around

A 29-year-old West Side man, on parole for robbery, has been charged with having a loaded AK-47 assault rifle at the Belmont Red Line station yesterday morning. CWBChicago was first to report the details of Saturday’s arrest. Jordan Watkins was arrested around 6:30 a.m. after a witness reported seeing a man with a large gun

The man was arrested on the Belmont platform around 6:30 this morning, police said. | Wikicommons Charges are pending against a 29-year-old man who was arrested this morning with an assault rifle at the Belmont Red Line station, 945 West Belmont. Officers responded to a call of a man with a gun on the southbound

Andrew Allison is accused of burglarizing a home in the 700 block of Buckingham on Monday. A sharp-eyed neighbor and a quick police response combined to put a Boystown burglar behind bars Monday evening, prosecutors and cops say. Tactical units responded after a resident reported seeing a stranger kick in the back door of a

| Chicago Transit Authority Two men robbed a victim at gunpoint near the Diversey Brown Line station during yesterday’s evening rush hour, police said. The victim was near the station when two offenders approached, pulled out a handgun, and demanded property around 6:45 p.m. The men then fled in opposite directions. Both offenders were described