Month: April 2018

Police work the scene after a pedestrian was struck by carjackers at Halsted and Fullerton. | Hey Jackass A group of armed men pulled off a series of four carjackings and attempted carjackings across the North Side in under an hour on Saturday morning, police said, leaving a string of damaged vehicles and a struck

The wanted vehicle is seen in these surveillance images taken moments before the crash. | Chicago Police Dept UPDATE 10:10AM APRIL 20: Police this morning issued a community alert that includes images of the wanted vehicle. The victim has been identified as Dorata Gieslinska. CWBChicago’s original report follows. —————– A 56-year-old woman was struck by a car

Police said the victim was followed into this apartment complex in the 3900 block of North Fremont. | Google A 24-year-old Lakeview woman was followed into her apartment complex by a man who attacked her from behind, then sexually assaulted and robbed her Thursday evening. No one is in custody. Police said the victim saw

Hey, if you all could stop shooting yourselves, that would be great. Over the past 12 days, Chicago cops have handled three cases of accidental self-inflicted gunshot wounds in the 19th (Town Hall) District. Town Hall covers the area from Fullerton to Lawrence and the river to Lake Michigan. Statistically, the district has had as

Herbert “G Herbo” Wright | Twitter Friday night’s “4-20” concert at the Vic Theatre in Lakeview has been canceled by promoters after Chicago police told theater owner Jam Productions that enhanced security would be needed due to a pending gun charge against one of the show’s headliners. Herbert “G Herbo” Wright, 23, and two other

Taylor (top) and Watkins are both charged with mugging a man on the Chicago Red Line platform. Two men have been charged with beating and robbing a 30-year-old man on the Chicago Avenue Red Line platform early Wednesday. Police said Tyrese Taylor, 27, and Kantray Watkins, 23, approached the victim and announced a robbery around 12:47

Parnell Barners (inset) beat and robbed a man in the 3500 block of North Halsted, police said. | CPD; Google A lifelong violent felon who is on parole for battering a man with a brick near the Belmont Red Line station in 2014 is now charged with robbing a Boystown resident on the Halsted bar

Two burglaries of occupied apartments were reported on the Boystown strip late Monday and early Tuesday. Burglars busted into two occupied apartments in Boystown on Monday night and early Tuesday, scaring the daylights out of their victims, but leaving no one injured. Both of the break-ins took place in the 3200 block of North Halsted

Van Buskirk | Chicago Police Dept A restaurant manager reported being tied up, battered, and robbed in the back office of his Union Station bar and grill last month, but now cops say the whole thing was a charade. The Junction bar manager James Van Buskirk, 53, is charged with felony disorderly conduct – false

Two of the four adults charged with beating and stealing money from a man in River North on April 6th have already gone AWOL by skipping court dates, according to Cook County court records. And they are just the tip of the iceberg. Of the 232 on-going criminal cases being monitored by CWBChicago editors, 36

Timothy Smith (inset) is charged with burglary and possession of burglary tools. A 51-year-old three-time convicted burglar is in custody, accused of breaking into parked cars near Boystown. Police say they stopped Timothy Smith of the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in the 3500 block of North Pine Grove after receiving a call of a man breaking

Tyree Ruth (inset) is charged with robbing this North Center T-Mobile store at gunpoint on Friday. An eleven-time convicted felon helped rob a North Center T-Mobile store on Friday evening and was arrested when he bailed out of the getaway car near Boystown in the midst of a 6-mile police chase, according to a CPD spokesperson.