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Month: August 2017

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Fake Ride Share Driver Scammed North Side Bar Patrons With Debit Card Trick

August 31, 2017 11:50 PM CWBChicago

Jackson lives in Lakeview and targeted bar-goers across the North Side, Loop, and Wicker Park, police say. A 49-year-old Lakeview man posed as a ride share driver and defrauded his passengers by stealing their debit cards, acquiring PINs, and later withdrawing money from ATMs, police said. Gabriel Jackson of the 400 block of West Barry

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Bad News: Gunman Shot At You • Good News: You Didn’t Get Hit • Bad News: Cops Say You Have A Warrant

August 31, 2017 11:17 PM CWBChicago

It’s a case of “good news, bad news” for two men whose car was shot up overnight in Lincoln Park. The men—both reputed gang members according to a police source—were in a car near Ashland and Fullerton when someone in a passing car opened fire on them around 2:30 a.m. Thursday. The victims sped away

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Liquor Store Robber Arrested 3 Days Later When Witness Sees Him On Street

August 31, 2017 11:00 PM CWBChicago

Thompson is charged with robbing the Parkwest Foodmart near Halsted and Diversey A Lakeview man who robbed a liquor store near his home with a butcher knife was arrested three days later when a witness saw him on the street, police said. Jacque Thompson of the 700 block of West Diversey robbed the Parkwest Food

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ANOTHER Armed Robbery Inside Lincoln Park—6th Mugging Since June 28

August 31, 2017 10:22 PM CWBChicago

Locations of 6 robberies since June 28 on the north end of Lincoln Park Now it’s SIX. Another armed robbery within a small, normally peaceful corner of Lincoln Park last night raises the number of muggings in the lakefront retreat to SIX since June 28. Incredibly, that’s more robberies than that slice of parkland has

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Facing Coke Dealing Charge, Teen’s Found With Loaded Handgun In Uptown Park, Cops Say

August 31, 2017 1:28 AM CWBChicago

Another gun is off of Uptown’s streets after a police surveillance mission found an accused cocaine dealer with a handgun in Clarendon Park on Saturday evening. Moore | Chicago Police Dept Officers were covertly monitoring a group of ten Conservative Vice Lords in the park around 7 p.m. when 18-year-old Shannon Moore stepped behind a

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Duo Burglarized Navy Pier Ben & Jerry’s TWICE, Cops Say; “Fleeing with all of the store’s money bags”

August 30, 2017 12:22 AM CWBChicago

Jarrett (top) and Ortiz are each charged with two counts of burglary | Yelp!; Chicago Police Dept Have you heard about the two 19-year-olds who burglarized Navy Pier’s Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Shop last month? Cops say the duo stole all of the store’s cash on July 24 and they didn’t waffle before going

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Uptown Burglary Victim Decides To Play Detective–And Has Incredible Luck

August 29, 2017 10:43 PM CWBChicago

A 55-year-old Uptown burglary victim decided to do a little detective work of his own last Monday. And he had the darnedest luck. Nikolovski | Chicago Police Dept He told police that he decided to swing by the “Just Pawn” store at 4509 North Sheridan to see if he could locate any of his stolen

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Three Women Robbed In Three Incidents Across Lakeview Overnight

August 29, 2017 12:39 PM CWBChicago

The good news is that two juvenile robbery offenders were arrested after mugging a woman late last night near the Southport Corridor. (Full info HERE.) The bad news is that two more women were robbed in the hours after the arrests—one in Wrigleyville and the other near the Diversey Brown Line station. The 2800 block

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Woman Robbed Near Southport Corridor; Offenders Busted After They Run To The Wrong Train Line

August 29, 2017 5:20 AM CWBChicago

Whoops! The offenders were caught after they fled to the wrong CTA station. Don’t ya just hate it when inexperienced robbers run to a Brown Line station in search of a Red Line train? Two boys who aren’t too familiar with Chicago’s easy-as-pie train system are facing robbery charges after beating and robbing a woman

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Career Burglar—Carrying TV Down A Lakeview Street—Is Busted Again

August 28, 2017 11:19 PM CWBChicago

A Near West Side man, convicted seven times for burglary, is back in jail today, caught red-handed walking down a Lakeview street with a stolen TV, cops say. Maldonado | Chicago Police Dept 54-year-old Samuel Maldonado was arrested just after 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon in the 4300 block of North Clark Street. Police were in

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River North

Man spent 20 hours in jail after alderman signed a criminal complaint without reading it (body cam video)

December 7, 2023 2:21 PM

Newly-acquired Chicago police body camera video shows an Albany Park man being arrested for battering a Chicago alderman at a River North bar, even though the alderman says that’s not what happened.

West Loop

Following overnight murder, West Loop alderman puts mayor’s office on blast: ’eminently foreseeable that someone was going to get killed’

December 7, 2023 12:22 PM

Ald. Bill Conway put Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office on blast Thursday, hours after a man was murdered steps from a homeless camp the alderman has been trying to get Johnson’s office to address.

Rogers Park

Package thieves blasted victim with bear spray: Chicago police report

December 7, 2023 8:18 AM

Two North Siders blasted a woman in the face with bear spray while stealing packages from her apartment building vestibule, according to a Chicago police report.

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