Month: December 2018

Howard | CPD What do you get a convicted arsonist and burglar who’s now charged with burglarizing two more Lakeview homes? A recognizance bond, of course! Veteran CWBChicago readers will recognize Eric Howard. In the summer of 2015, the then-22-year-old was arrested at the Center on Halsted and charged with setting fire to a building

Williams | CPD A 64-year-old man was beaten with a pipe and robbed by four teenagers Thursday afternoon in the Old Town neighborhood, police said. Two arrests have been made. The victim, who lives nearby in the Gold Coast, was walking in the 300 block of West Goethe when he was approached by four teens

Jackson | CPD We have additional information regarding Gabriel Jackson, the 50-year-old man who was accused in August 2017 of posing as an Uber driver to defraud passengers by stealing debit and credit card numbers. We reported on Sunday that Jackson had reached a plea deal that saw him plead guilty to one count of

Roderick Trice and the gun that police say he had in his car when they stopped him in Uptown on Nov. 24. | CPD No one was injured, but a vehicle was struck twice Sunday when gunfire erupted between cars traveling on Lake Shore Drive near Belmont Harbor. Police said a man was driving northbound

Blo Blow Dry Bar and Pokiology are two of the most recent businesses to be struck by burglars. | Yelp; Google The hits just keep on coming for small businesses on the North Side. Burglars working overnight hours have been striking hard against mom & pop businesses from Lincoln Park to Uptown. The intruders almost

A suburban man who has the words “F*ck The Police” tattooed on his forehead has been sentenced to two years in prison for trying to rob a Boystown bank in March. Here are the details on that case and others you heard about on CWBChicago: Geovany Valencia | CPD Tattoo-heavy Geovany Valencia, 25, reportedly walked

A Lincoln Park woman was confronted at her back door by a man armed with a gun Saturday morning. Minutes later, the man is believed to have robbed another woman just blocks away. No one is in custody. The trouble began shortly after 8 a.m. when a masked man tried to enter the woman’s back

A 28-year-old man is in good condition after a shooting in the Old Town neighborhood on Saturday evening, police said. No one is in custody. The man was standing on a sidewalk in the 1300 block of North Cleveland when a gunman approached on foot and fired two shots shortly after 5 p.m., according to

Nicole Cathey (left) and Lateka Delaney are charged with posing as ride-hail drivers and criminal trespass to vehicle. | CPD Chicago police are once again warning about women who are posing as Uber drivers to rob people in downtown nightlife districts. The alert comes after two more people were robbed by the duo in November.