A man who has been arrested five times for misdemeanors since late February stole a man’s car and then crashed it in Streeterville when police tried to arrest him Monday morning, according to prosecutors
A former rideshare driver who faced allegations of sexually abusing a female passenger on the North Side has been sentenced to probation, according to court records.
A woman who’s accused of hijacking a CPD squad car and running over a cop who tried to pull her out of the driver’s seat owns a tax accounting firm and a real estate company, her attorney says.
Jacob Mallander had fake IDs and a wallet full of stolen credit cards when police arrested him for shoplifting at a Lakeview grocery store, prosecutors said.
A seven-time convicted felon who is on parole for violently robbing a Michael Jackson impersonator on a downtown Red Line platform faces new felony charges after he was allegedly seen showing off a gun at the Roosevelt CTA station Friday.
Prosecutors say a woman who crashed a stolen car near Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s house on Friday night was wearing pilfered belly button rings worth several thousand dollars when cops arrested her.
Prosecutors on Monday charged a Chicago man with participating in flash-mob robberies of the Prada Store on Oak Street in January and Louis Vuitton in Northbrook last year.
Prosecutors say Ojani Cruz opened fire on a minivan in River North last month, paralyzing a woman and narrowly missing a man, just four weeks after officials referred his felony gun case to a “peace circle” courtroom that specializes in “restorative justice.”
A 27-year-old man is hospitalized after someone shot him outside a popular Boystown nightclub early Monday. Police said the man was walking on the 3300 bock of North Halsted around 1:17 a.m. when he heard gunfire and realized he had been shot. He suffered gunshot wounds to both legs and was taken to Advocate Illinois