Month: August 2017

Wanted suspect image from CPD Detectives now have a photo of the man wanted for robbing a string of stores at knifepoint across the city. The August 4 holdup of a Lincoln Square jewelry store is among the heists that the man is responsible for, police said in an updated community alert. Eight hold-ups are now

The latest Lincoln Square robbery happened at 8 p.m. Monday near Leland and Damen, police said. Chalk up another robbery for Lincoln Square. Around 8 o’clock Monday night, a woman was mugged by three young male offenders near Damen and Leland—less than a block from the Damen Brown Line station, police said. The woman was

The boys tried to rob a woman here, in the 900 block of West Cornelia, around 9:15 p.m. on Monday. A mob of young offenders, some believed to be only 8-years-old, has been wreaking havoc around Boystown and Wrigleyville since Friday evening. They’ve torn up restaurants, threatened retailers, and even tried to rob a woman.

An employee was battered, held at gunpoint, and ordered to open the safe when she arrived for work Monday morning at Blaze Pizza, 953 West Belmont. The restaurant is located directly next to the Belmont Red Line station. Police said the victim arrived around 6:30 a.m. and was met by a man in a business suit

A Boystown woman told police that a complete stranger threatened to kick her dog’s ass at Halsted and Addison, prosecutors say. Now, 27-year-old Yusuf Humphrey is facing assault charges. Humphrey The woman saw Humphrey outside of Lakeview Lutheran Church, 835 West Addison, about a week after the alleged threat and she notified cops to have

The shooting of a high-profile rapper has North Side gang violence on the rise, cops say. And a triple-shooting this morning in Rogers Park may bring payback to Uptown. CWBChicago reported exclusively that 26-year-old rapper Keith “Bang Da Hitta” Hayer suffered a leg injury in a shooting near Broadway and Leland in Uptown on August

The woman was robbed here, near the intersection of Surf and Braodway. | Google Two men armed with handguns robbed a Lakeview woman early Saturday morning, police said. The victim said she was near her home in the 500 block of West Surf when the offenders approached and forced her to the ground at gunpoint

A Lincoln Square cellular store was targeted in an attempted robbery Friday evening, but the offenders fled empty-handed, police said. The Boost Mobile at 4774 North Lincoln reported the robbery attempt around 8:20 p.m. An employee told police that a black man in his mid-20’s with multiple tattoos on his face tried to rob the

Olivarez was arrested here, in the 3700 block of North Recreation Drive, police said. | CPD; Google Cops say they found an Albany Park man sitting in his car near the lakefront with suspected crack cocaine, pills, and more than $2,000 cash early Friday. Police approached Juan Olivarez’s car in the 3700 block of Recreation

Map showing the approximate locations of twelve phone thefts and robberies included in today’s alert. | Batchgeo A new community alert is warning people to be alert in Chicago’s prime tourist areas after at least twelve people were robbed of their phones in River North, the Mag Mile, and Streeterville between August 6 and August

A man who brandished a syringe when Jewel-Osco security tried to stop him from stealing $544 worth of Oil of Olay last November has been sentenced to six-years in prison. Malhotra pleaded guilty to 3 robbery counts this week. 50-year-old Sanjay Malhotra of Garfield Park was also convicted of robbing two suburban stores last autumn

Murphy (left) and Perry pleaded guilty to robbing a motorist at Belmont and Halsted. A man who was on parole for robbery when he robbed a Boystown motorist in November received a cake walk sentence of 2-years in prison this week. His co-offender received an even easier sentence: 2-years of “mental health probation.” Parolee Joseph