Month: August 2018

Diaz-Soto | Chicago Police Dept The man who repeatedly rammed Chicago police cars during a 10-mile chase across the North Side last Tuesday afternoon was under the influence of an intoxicating substance, according to prosecutors. Gabriel Diaz-Soto, 27, has been charged with multiple felonies in connection with the chase that began after a male bicyclist

The Waldorf-Astoria’s Yves Saint Laurent store was evacuated Sunday afternoon following a robbery in which shoplifters pepper-sprayed a security guard, police said. Source: City of Chicago Data Portal, “Crimes 2001 to present” Two teenage girls entered the store around 3:30 p.m. and soon headed for the door with high-end merchandise that they didn’t pay for.

Police said a woman was jumped and robbed in Lincoln Park on Saturday evening just two blocks from a convenience store that has been held-up twice this week.  The report comes as Lincoln Park’s robbery rate in 2018 is outpacing any recent year. The woman was outside of the Walgreens at 1520 West Fullerton around

Approximate location of the Sunday morning carjacking. Carjackers shot a 47-year-old man in the Uptown neighborhood shortly before 11 o’clock on Sunday morning, police said. No one is in custody. The victim, who lives in Uptown, was in the 800 block of West Leland when two men approached him and demanded his car at gunpoint,

A Lincoln Park convenience store has been robbed twice in less than a week, according to Chicago police. No one is in custody. Around 3:30 a.m. on August 11th, a masked man walked into the 7-Eleven store at 1349 West Fullerton and implied that he had a handgun. The offender took money from the register

Robert Racky founded Lakeview Baseball Club, Wrigleyville’s first rooftop club. | CPD; jessedouglas on Flickr The businessman who created Wrigleyville’s first rooftop business is in hot water. Prosecutors say 76-year-old Robert Racky falsely reported being carjacked in Lakeview on Thursday morning because his car had been booted by the city and he wanted police to respond.

The latest robberies by the armed crew (pins) and others (stars) In about one hour overnight, at least ten people fell victim to robbers in a series of muggings across Lakeview and Lincoln Park. Six of the hold-ups are believed to be the work of an armed robbery crew that has been working the area

The owners of two Cesar’s Killer Margaritas locations in Lakeview are charged with underreporting their businesses’ income during 2012. | Cesar’s Killer Margaritas  The owners of two long-running Lakeview restaurants are facing federal criminal charges of underreporting their businesses’ gross receipts by using “sales suppression software and other techniques,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office

Locations of this morning’s armed robberies. Two more armed robberies were reported within 30 minutes early today in the 19th (Town Hall) Police District—one in North Center and the other in Lincoln Park. The muggings were likely committed by the same crew and are probably connected to a series of armed street robberies that have

Devonte Gipson is charged with robbing two Loop fast food restaurants on Saturday morning. | CPD; Google Prosecutors say a Calumet City man robbed one Loop restaurant and tried to hold up a second before cops caught him on Saturday morning. Devonte Gipson walked into the Dunkin’ Donuts at 31 East Adams with his hand

A Rogers Park man has been charged with illegally possessing a handgun near the scene of a “shots fired” incident in Uptown last Thursday night. Spraggins | CPD Just after 10 p.m., police responded to calls of shots being fired near the 4400 block of North Racine. Arriving officers said they saw a man run