Month: April 2018

The man charged with trying to sexually assault a Lakeview woman in her apartment building last Thursday evening was arrested the very next night for a similar attack in the Gage Park neighborhood, according to police records. Wright | Chicago Police Dept Terrence Wright was charged yesterday with trying to sexually assault a 24-year-old woman

The crime spree ended in the 1400 block of North Inner Lake Shore Drive around 6 p.m. The carjacking of a plainclothes  Chicago police officer started a violent crime spree that left two people shot in the Near North and Gold Coast neighborhoods on Thursday afternoon. A suspect is in custody and the conditions of

A 20-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint in Lakeview on Wednesday evening. No one is in custody. The victim was not injured. Approximate location of last night’s robbery. Police said the woman was walking in the 3000 block of North Paulina when an unknown man approached her and displayed a handgun around 10:40 p.m. The

Terrence Wright (inset) is charged with sexually assaulting a woman at this Lakeview apartment complex. A two-time convicted robber has been charged with the sexual assault of a woman in Lakeview last Thursday evening. Terrence Wright, 29, of Markham is charged with one felony count of aggravated criminal sexual assault, police said this afternoon. He

Keith Hayer | Chicago Police Dept He’s been shot, shot at, jailed and imprisoned. Now, the North Side rapper known as Bang Da Hitta is charged with murder. Chicago police this afternoon confirmed that 27-year-old Keith Hayer has been arrested and charged with one felony count of murder in connection with the November 2017 slaying

An already-strange sexual assault case from Lakeview has taken two bizarre turns in court and it’s difficult to say which development is more unsettling. Kopacz | Cook County Sheriff In October 2016, 52-year-old Joseph Kopacz was charged with entering an apartment in the 3800 block of North Kenmore and attempting to sexually assault a 23-year-old

Harper (inset) escaped from electronic monitoring for over a month–until he allegedly robbed this Loop eatery. A Humboldt Park man accused of burglarizing a Loop jewelry store was released on a recognizance bond, escaped from electronic monitoring, and then remained at large for nearly a month until he got arrested again for allegedly robbing a

Gerald Harris is seen in mugshots from February (left), March (center) and April. | Chicago Police Department How many chances does a paroled burglar get before authorities will finally put him back behind bars? If that burglar is Gerald Harris, the answer appears to be three. Harris was released on parole last October after serving

Keith Sandifer | Chicago Police Dept Last September, we warned that a man who had recently been discharged from parole for robbing a victim in Boystown had returned to the neighborhood and had been arrested again for stealing a woman’s purse. “Let’s give a warm ‘Welcome Back’ to Keith Sandifer,” we wrote. Welp, early Saturday

The victim was found by police outside of the Jimmy John’s at Wilson and Racine. | Google UPDATE April 25 10:58PM—The Cook County State’s Attorney declined to press charges in the case citing self-defense, according to Chicago police. ——– A 41-year-old man was critically wounded in a stabbing on the street near Truman College in

Robert Archer (left) and Stacey Means | Chicago Police Dept Two convicted felons, including one who is on parole for murder, have been charged with robbing a ride-hailing service passenger in River North. Early Friday morning, detectives working an anti-robbery mission began surveillance of a vehicle that was suspected of being used in a ride-hailing

Two women were robbed and carjacked early Sunday near Seminary and Diversey, police said. | Google Police are investigating an overnight carjacking along the Lakeview-Lincoln Park border. Two women had just exited their car in the 1100 block of West Diversey when four men approached and pointed handguns to their faces while announcing a robbery