Month: August 2017

No injuries were reported when shots were fired on a bustling Uptown street corner Saturday afternoon, police said. No one is in custody. Witnesses said the shots rang out after an argument inside a sporting goods store spilled onto the street at 4601 North Broadway around 3:40 p.m. The participants were three tall, skinny black

Three robberies in 90 minutes overnight targeted four victims in Lakeview and a fifth in Lincoln Square this morning, police said. The first sign of trouble came around 3:25 a.m. when a Lakeview man told police that a man jumped out of a white SUV and started chasing him down the street in a robbery

While Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx refuses to enforce our state’s theft laws; allows violent gang members to escape weapons charges if they merely deny that a gun is theirs; and fights to let more and more defendants go free without posting bail, her counterpart in downstate Kankakee County is taking a different approach.

Two people were pepper-sprayed and robbed in separate attacks early Wednesday in Boystown. Police believe the same group of four people is responsible for both crimes, which unfolded in less than 45 minutes along the Halsted Street bar strip. Ballentine | Chicago Police Dept Around 1:30 a.m., police were flagged down by a robbery victim

Hoytuan Pierce fired the gun here, in the 3400 block of North Clark Street, police said. | Google; CPD A three-time convicted violent felon who was on parole when he allegedly fired off a handgun during a Cubs playoff victory street party in Wrigleyville is going to prison. Hoytuan Pierce was 31-years-old when he opened

A Chicago man charged with robbing a Lincoln Square bank on Monday may want to consider a different line of work—once he’s out of prison, that is. For the fourth time since 2009, Victor Delfi today was charged with bank robbery in federal court. Delfi’s bank robbery career continues its downward spiral Monday. | FBI An

Griggs (top) and Moss had nearly $98,000 worth of pot products in their van, prosecutors say. | YouTube “We are open 7 days a week, 420 days a year.“ —Weed World website slogan It’s a bright green van smacked with “Weed World” signage, phone numbers for delivery, a website, and a bright yellow caution sign:

An Englewood man is charged with threatening two men and one of their teenage sons with a knife in Boystown early Saturday morning. Jackson | Chicago Police Dept 24-year-old Deonte Jackson became verbally aggressive toward the victims outside of Taco Burrito Palace, 3507 North Halsted, around 5:30 a.m., police said. He then followed the three

Edgar Perez advertised his wares with a sign that said “JOINTS $$,” an FBI agent said | Chicago Police An undercover FBI agent working near the Lollapalooza festival grounds relied on “years of law enforcement experience and narcotics training” to determine that a man who was carrying a sign that said “JOINTS $$” was attempting

Imad Gordon (inset) is charged with robbing ticket brokers at Lollapalooza 2017 | Lolla image: SwimFinFan Update February 20, 2018: Prosecutors later dropped all charges against Gordon in this case. ———————————— A ticket broker’s sale of Lollapalooza wristbands turned into a robbery at the Chicago Hilton Hotel, 720 South Michigan, last Thursday. A Woodlawn man

This morning’s robber is seen seconds before being arrested | FBI A witness helped save the day in Lincoln Square this morning, flagging down passing cops to report seeing a man putting a mask on his face as he walked into a nearby bank just after 9 a.m. The officers rushed to Albany Bank, 4400

With 2017’s robbery pace running middle-of-the-pack compared to recent years, Wrigleyville and Boystown has racked up two muggings to start the month of August. A woman was robbed by three men in the 1300 block of West Roscoe around 2:55 a.m. on Thursday, August 3. The woman said all three offenders were armed with handguns