Month: November 2018

Joseph Kopacz disappeared as a jury began deliberations in his home invasion and criminal sexual abuse case at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Nov. 8th. | CPD A repeatedly-convicted sex offender and burglar is on the loose after he fled from the Leighton Criminal Courthouse this month while a jury prepared to convict him of

The victim was robbed in a driveway in the 700 block of West Buckingham, police said. | Google A Boystown man is in fair condition after he was beaten and robbed while taking out the trash on Wednesday evening, police said. No one is in custody. The 34-year-old victim told police that he stepped outside

Molly’s Cupcakes, the beloved bakery at 2536 North Clark, became the latest North Side business to fall victim to burglars early Tuesday, police said. Cops responded to the recently-expanded store around 3:30 a.m. to discover “glass everywhere, the register open, and the office ransacked,” an officer said. The store’s safe was targeted. Investigators said the

From top: Collins, Flowers, Gantt, Spivery, and Thurman. | CPD; Yelp Five adults are charged with trying to steal the liquor inventory from Detention, a now-shuttered nightclub on the Division Street bar strip, over the weekend. Patrol officers who are assigned to the bustling nightlife district saw the burglary unfolding around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday,

Sentences have been handed down in a few burglary and package theft cases that we told you about on CWBChicago. Here’s the latest: Mark Walker (center) and surveillance images of the Lakeview burglar. | CPD; Provided Mark Walker, who was charged with fourteen counts of burglary in Lakeview and then escaped from electronic monitoring to

Joseph Kopacz has been found guilty of home invasion and aggravated criminal sexual abuse in connection with an incident in the 3800 block of North Kenmore. | CPD; Google UPDATE Nov 29, 2019: The story has become even weirder. Officials confirmed today that Kopacz has gone on the run, slipping away from the courthouse while

Jimmy Williams (L) and Vernon Reeves are charged with robbing a solider at the State-Chicago Red Line station. | CPD; Wikicommons The Magnificent Mile’s infamous teen mobs were out in force on Black Friday and police say one man who fell victim to the hordes is a U.S. Army soldier. A large group of teenagers that

Locations of Friday’s burglary (red) and break-ins listed in a recent CPD community alert (blue). Just hours after North Side detectives issued a community alert about a series of home burglaries in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, alert witnesses may have seen the criminals in action. Just before 1 p.m. on Friday, officers responded to a

Angel Ramos (left) and Alvin Vazques-Cruz; the intersection of Chicago Ave and Lake Shore Drive | CPD; Google UPDATE 11:45 AM: Angel Ramos, 20, is charged with felony disorderly conduct — false report; misdemeanor leaving the scene of an accident; misdemeanor driving on a suspended license; and a traffic violation. Alvin Vazquez-Cruz, 24, is charged

Charges are pending after a hit-and-run driver fled the scene of a crash on Lake Shore Drive, ditched his car in Streeterville, and then told police that his vehicle had been carjacked, according to police and witnesses. The auto accident late on Thanksgiving night was captured on dashcam video by a passing Lyft driver. Slow

The victim was with her car at this Erie Street entrance to the 680 North LSD building. | Google UPDATE: Police arrested the two teens later Wednesday after the robbers crashed the stolen car into a garage in the 12200 block of South Princeton in the West Pullman neighborhood, according to police radio activity monitored

Approximate location of Monday’s incident Armed robbers fired at least one gunshot during a robbery near Boystown in Lakeview East on Monday night, according to Chicago police and a witness who spoke with CWBChicago. No one was injured, and no one is in custody. The incident unfolded around 11:30 p.m. in the 500 block of