Month: February 2018

Sentences have been handed down this week in three robbery cases that you read about on CWBChicago. Judges dished out penalties ranging from six years in prison to two-years probation to the defendants. Here are the details: Buford • Keyruni Buford, 24, was on parole for robbery when he led the beating and robbery of

Just yesterday we wrote a story about how Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson had repeatedly broken his promises to increase manpower in districts across the North Side. Today, 44th Ward Alderman Tom Tunney received an update on manpower in the 19th (Town Hall) District that serves his ward. “I was alarmed,” Tunney said in his

Slobodan Pesovic | Chicago Police Dept A 31-year-old man who forced his way into a Lincoln Square family’s home and then shot his 43-year-old accomplice to death on the victims’ front porch on January 30 is in custody, police said. He had been in police custody since Tuesday. Slobodan Pesovic was charged today with murder, home

Window- and dash-mounted phones are the latest targets for Chicago’s criminal element. The information has been slowly coming together. First, there were reports about groups of people walking between cars stopped at red lights, looking into vehicles. Callers to 911 think it looks suspicious. Then came reports of criminals opening doors of cars in traffic

If there’s one thing we dislike almost as much as crime, it’s public officials who lie about what’s being done to combat it. A lie built on a promise from an untrustworthy man. And Lincoln Park Alderman Michele Smith (43), whose ward has seen a 100% increase in robberies so far this year, is spinning

An accused robbery offender, released in December on an “affordable bail,” is back behind bars today—accused of committing another robbery that’s exactly like the other. White Hayes White, 24, was arrested Sunday evening for battering two security guards as he tried to steal $265 worth of merchandise from a West Loop Jewel-Osco store in the

Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson and Rahm Emanuel announce a new carjacking taskforce on Sunday | CPD It was a funny scene for those who were there. Hours before Mayor Rahm Emanuel showed up for a major media event at the 14th (Shakespeare) Police District in Logan Square on Sunday, no fewer than six truckloads

Chicago’s shoplifting mobs may have reached a new level of brazenness on the Magnificent Mile on Sunday. Chicago police say a mob of five shoplifters hit the Topshop store at 830 North Michigan around 11 a.m., running out the door with bags of stolen merchandise. What they did next is an all-timer. After exiting Topshop,

Receive CWB’s 2018 Judges Scorecard just in time for early voting.  Subscribe today from just 94-cents per week! Here are sentencing updates in some cases that you read about on CWBChicago: • Justice was swift for Talmas Elliot, the 42-year-old who was charged with a violent carjacking in Albany Park less than two months after being put

The woman was pushed into this alley between the 3500 blocks of Wilton and Fremont, police said today. Chicago police have just issued an updated, more detailed community alert regarding a robbery and attempted sexual assault in Wrigleyville early Saturday. Updated location of Saturday’s attack  In the new alert, police say a 26-year-old woman was

Approximate location of Saturday’s attack UPDATE 9:55AM FEBRUARY 4—Police have just issued an updated and more detailed community alert. Info HERE. Our original report based on the earlier police warning follows. ——– A woman was pushed into a Wrigleyville alley by a man who robbed and tried to rape her early Saturday morning, police said. The

Lakeview East residents on Facebook’s Taking Back Lakeview Neighbors group are reporting that catalytic converter thieves have returned to the area.  Separately, a CWBChicago reader contacted us with information about how some of these teams cover up the noise generated by sawing metal parts off of cars. Start-to-finish, two offenders needed less than a minute to remove a

Photo of the suspect’s vehicle as provided by Chicago police. | Chicago Police Department Chicago police issued a community alert after two parents reported stumbling upon a bizarre scene in Lincoln Square on Friday evening. The grown-ups were walking their children home from school around 4 p.m. when they saw a shirtless man sitting alone