Month: February 2018

Shane Sleeper (inset) is accused of leveling a series of threats against Boystown bar workers | CPD; Google A Lakeview man issued a series of threats to Boystown bar employees over the past month and then ran from cops who tried to arrest him this week, according to prosecutors and police. Shane Sleeper, 31, has

Charges were dropped against Gerald Harris when the Center on Halsted failed to appear in court. | File; CPD A convicted burglar who was accused of stealing a power drill set from the Center on Halsted (COH), 3656 North Halsted, walked free on Thursday after the LGBT social agency failed to appear in court. Gerald Harris,

L to R: Deavonte Kimble; Marchello Watson; and Herbert Wright. | Chicago Police Dept UPDATE 5PM — In court this afternoon, prosecutors said that the accused men were in a limousine and their driver informed police that some of his passengers were armed. Cops kept the limo under observation and pulled it over near State

It sounds like Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is feeling a little heat over his support for low bonds and his push to do away with cash bonds entirely. Dart today complained that too many gun offenders are being released on electronic monitoring as a result of the county’s new campaign to offer “affordable bonds”

Burglars entered the rear of Always Thai, then busted through a wall to access A-1 Jewelry & Coin | Google Daring burglars entered a Thai restaurant in North Center early Wednesday, then tore through a common wall to gain access to the jewelry and coin shop located next door, police said. No one is in

The Music Box Theatre | Seth Anderson Chicago Wikicommons Chicago police are investigating a robbery inside Lakeview’s beloved Music Box Theatre on Tuesday afternoon. Around 1:35 p.m., a man entered the 88-year-old moviehouse at 3733 North Southport and asked to use the restroom, according to police. An employee directed the man toward the rear of

Gerald Harris (inset) is charged with stealing a power drill set from the Center on Halsted. An Uptown man who’s on parole for burglarizing a Lakeview garage is now charged with stealing a drill set from the Center on Halsted (COH). Gerald Harris, 31, stole a Milwaukee drill set from the landmark LGBT community center

The number of police officers assigned to Chicago’s 22 police districts has fallen by 23 cops since Mayor Rahm Emanuel promised to add 970 officers to the department in September 2016 according to the latest manpower numbers released by the Chicago Police Department in response to a Freedom of Information request. Analysis of the numbers

Sentences have been handed down in two Boystown-area robberies and an armed robbery outside of a Lincoln Park boutique hotel: A five-time convicted felon accused of robbing a woman outside of Hotel Lincoln, 1816 North Clark, in May has been sentenced to 16 years in prison. Dumas Jamal Dumas, 22, of Mount Prospect pushed the 28-year-old

Adnan Nafasat faced 20 felony charges in connection with the attack that took place while he was driving for Uber. A 49-year-old male Uber driver accused of sexually assaulting a 21-year-old male passenger that he picked up in Boystown in July 2014 has been sentenced to 30 months of sex offender probation after pleading guilty

Time for our weekly installment of Monday Gunday, the feature in which we share the circumstances of some recent gun-related arrests and the bail conditions handed to the accused by Cook County Judges: Rhodus • Cops were called to a bar in the 2600 block of North Clark around 8 p.m. on February 4 after

One of CWB’s Lakeview readers sent along these pix of what appears to either be an uninvited late-night door lock repairman or a burglar at work over the weekend. The man seen here was captured on a homeowner’s surveillance system in the 4100 block of North Greenview early Saturday morning, our reader said. This particular