Month: June 2018

UPDATE JUNE 15, 2018, 5:07PM — Chicago police just announced that the suspect is in custody. “Thank you to you the public and everyone for your assistance in finding this suspect. The partnership between the Police and community works and this is just the most recent example,” the department said in a Tweet. “After posting

Around 8 o’clock last night, Chicago police in Uptown located a Jeep that was reportedly taken in an armed carjacking earlier this week. Three adults and four children were inside. But, despite the officers’ best efforts, no charges will be filed because the victim refused to sign complaints, according to CPD’s Office of News Affairs.

Last September, he and a sixteen-year-old accomplice were charged with knocking an elderly woman to the ground and stealing her purse in Lincoln Park. Yesterday, he and a different teen were charged with carjacking a woman in Bucktown and crashing her car a short distance away. In both cases, the 17-year-old was charged as a juvenile.

Police are seeking this man in connection with indecent behavior aboard a Brown Line train in May. | CPD Chicago police on Thursday afternoon issued a community alert that seeks information about a man who is wanted for inappropriately touching himself in front of a female Brown Line passenger last month. The alert is the

Image of a burglar who struck near Diversey and Southport on Monday. | Facebook They’re some of the sneakiest and creepiest criminals around. They’re the ones who prowl around gangways and back porches, looking for loose windows, vulnerable, and something valuable inside. They don’t care if a house is occupied. If they can get in

A judge handed down an eight-year sentence to a man who beat another man for nearly 20 minutes in a Near North parking garage last summer. And, a gang member who brandished a handgun as crowds were dispersing from last year’s Pride Parade has been given a four-year sentence. Here are the details. Williams (inset)

Newly-released images of a “person of interest” sought by police in connection with two home invasions and criminal sexual abuse cases in Lincoln Park on May 27. | Chicago Police Department Chicago police on Tuesday afternoon released a new set of images of a “person of interest” being sought in connection with two home invasions

There are a lot of people who want someone to be dead in Uptown. Police won’t say who the target is. An informed source says the past week’s intense flare-up involves the Conservative Vice Lords (CVL) street gang. Things are not expected to cool down until the mystery target is hit. Chicago cops have investigated

EDITORS’ NOTE: Details of another incident that were included in this report have been removed at 8:11AM on December 8, 2018. The individual accused in that matter succeeded in having the case expunged from his/her Cook County Criminal Court record. While not required by law to remove truthful reports, CWBChicago editors do extend this courtesy

Enhanced images of two suspects from the May 30 ATM burglary attempt in Boystown. | ProgressBar Burglars have targeted at least five ATMs in the Boystown area since April and now, thanks to the thieves’ latest victim, you can see video and images of the suspects. Image of two suspects sought in the May 30

Career burglar Robert Payne (inset) and a map showing locations of eleven burglaries he is accused of committing. Some sites experienced multiple break-ins. | CPD; Multiplottr Prosecutors have charged a career burglar with breaking into eleven businesses across the West Loop and Near North to steal jewelry, computers, and personal property. In his 58 years

William Groves (inset) was arrested in the 4500 block of North Clarendon. | CPD; Google Chicago police are celebrating the “great arrest” of an allegedly armed felon in Uptown on Friday evening. In addition to a loaded handgun, officers recovered a ski mask, hoodie, and latex gloves from the suspect’s car, according to the police