Month: October 2018

Chicago police may have their best chance yet to break a carjacking crew that detectives believe may be responsible for as many as nine armed robberies on the North Side this month. Police in the West Pullman neighborhood on the far South Side this weekend arrested a 17-year-old male after he was spotted driving a

Shawn Bond picked up his victim in the 1400 block of North Wells, prosecutors said. | Google; CPD An Elmwood Park man is in custody, charged with posing as an Uber driver to rob a man in Old Town last winter. Prosecutors say 27-year-old Shawn Bond picked up a man in the 1400 block of

Joshua Santana (L) and Raul Tijerina are charged with robbing this Dunkin Donuts and beating its employees, police said. | CPD; Google Two men are now charged with beating and robbing the employees of a Dunkin Donuts restaurant in River North early Sunday morning. One of the men is on parole for shooting someone in

The first victim was shot as he rode in a vehicle near the Wilson Avenue underpass at Lake Shore Drive. | Google Two people, including a 15-year-old boy, were injured in separate shootings just minutes apart in the Uptown neighborhood on Sunday evening. No one is in custody, but the same gunman is believed to

The crisp, autumnal weather we’ve been enjoying over the past few days has not slowed the pace of Chicago’s hard-working downtown street robbers. Here are some of the cases that have been reported to police: • Two suspects are in custody and a firearm was recovered after police responded to a call of suspicious people

Approximate locations of the three incidents. A 59-year-old woman told police that she came home Saturday afternoon and discovered a man inside her high-rise apartment in the 3100 block of North Sheridan Road. The man forced her to perform a sex act and then left the building, police said. No suspect description was available from

More than two weeks after police warned about burglaries to businesses in the Uptown neighborhood, another break-in has been reported in the same area. No one is in custody. Around 2 o’clock on Sunday morning, police found the Uptown Vietnamese Restaurant burglarized in the 1000 block of West Argyle. The cash register had been broken

Left to right: Lawerance Hall; Tishawn Holliday; and Tia Jennings | CPD; Google Three adults have been arrested and charged in connection with the armed robbery of a Christian Dior boutique near the Magnificent Mile this week after they agreed to meet with an undercover officer to sell a stolen Dior purse for $9,000, according

Approximate locations of this week’s fires.  Chicago police are investigating two possible arson fires that were reported about two blocks apart in the Uptown neighborhood this week. No one has been injured in the fires which were isolated to individual units in apartment buildings, police said. Around 10:55 p.m. on Oct. 7th, officers and fire

Chicago police have issued new details about a Thursday evening home invasion in Lakeview as well as photographs of the offenders. CWBChicago first reported on the crime early Friday According to investigators’ newly-released information, the two suspects seen here entered the vestibule of the woman’s apartment building in the 3900 block of North Pine Grove

A Lakeview woman told police that two men robbed her at gunpoint in her home Thursday evening in the 3900 block of North Pine Grove. No one is in custody. The victim, 22, reported that two men entered her apartment through the front door around 6:20 p.m. and pointed a handgun at her, a police

Chevazz Campbell allegedly slashed the teen on this Roosevelt Road bridge. | Google; CPD A man slashed a 17-year-old boy’s throat in the West Loop because the teen and his girlfriend were “taking up too much sidewalk,” according to court records. Chevazz Campbell, the boy and a 16-year-old girl were walking in the 400 block of West

Sydney Carter was arrested near the intersection of Halsted and Aldine. | CPD; Google A 29-year-old woman called police after she was punched in the ear on Boystown’s Halsted Street bar strip early Sunday morning, police said. We wouldn’t ordinarily report on a case like hers, but stick with us. Around 4:25 a.m. police met