Month: November 2017

If someone told you that prosecutors chose not to file felony shoplifting charges against a defendant due to the person’s “prior criminal history,” you’d probably assume that the person had a relatively clean record, right? Grothe | Cook County Sheriff You’d be safe in that assumption in most places. But not Cook County. Let us

A second person has been charged in connection with an armed robbery near Boystown on October 14. Talley | Chicago Police Dept Police today announced that Alphanso Talley, 18, was arrested over the weekend and charged with robbing two men as they walked through an alley in the 3200 block of North Clark at 2:45

Police said Nytina Raymond (inset) posed as an Uber driver to pick up a victim at a bar in Old Town. A Wisconsin woman posing as an Uber driver picked up a man in Old Town early Saturday and then robbed him at gunpoint with the help of two juvenile males, police said. Police tracked

Robinson (top) and Stenson are each charged with three counts of robbery. Two men have been charged with committing three armed robberies last Saturday night—one each in Lincoln Park, Lakeview, and North Center. 19-year-old Reginald Stenson of Evanston and 18-year-old Daveion Robinson were arrested at 11:20 p.m. on Saturday, about an hour after they robbed

For the second time in a month, thieves armed with hammers have walked into a Water Tower watch shop, broken display cases, and made off with luxury timepieces, police said today. A group of offenders walked into Tourneau on the mall’s third floor, smashed the glass display case with mallets, and ran away with valuable

This store at 2710 North Lincoln was robbed around 10:20 p.m. on Thursday, police said. | Google A gunman remains on the loose after robbing two Lincoln Park convenience stores in about an hour Thursday night. The offender’s description closely matches that of a man who robbed a third convenience store and a late night

Two men have been beaten and robbed in separate muggings since late Wednesday night—one in North Center and the other near Wrigleyville. Around 12:30 this morning, a Lakeview man was beaten in the head and robbed at gunpoint in the 3600 block of North Greenview, police said. After getting the man’s valuables, the offender jumped

One man is dead and two others, including a 12-year-old boy, are hospitalized after they were shot inside an Uptown Starbucks Thursday evening. No one is in custody. The Starbucks is located near the Aragon Ballroom and Green Mill Tavern. | Google Around 8:10 p.m., a man ran into the coffee shop at 4753 North

A North Side rapper with a growing criminal record has connections to a double-shooting early Wednesday in Uptown, police sources said. Hayer | Facebook Keith “Bang Da Hitta” Hayer was arrested in Lakeview after police allegedly saw him run from a van that is believed to have been used to transport the shooting victims to