A 17-year-old boy attacked, robbed, and threatened to shoot a Chicago firefighter at a South Side firehouse because the fireman refused to cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet, according to Chicago police and a source.
Suspect being questioned in West Loop kidnapping attempt is a convicted sex offender who was released on a recognizance bond less than 24 hours before the attack, Chicago law enforcement sources say.
The man who attempted to kidnap a woman in the West Loop on Sunday morning may have tried to abduct another woman downtown just minutes later, according to a source. But Chicago police have not revealed the information publicly.
The probationary Chicago police officer who was shot while driving on the North Side last week, just days after being suspended for a positive drug test, is no longer a member of the city’s police force, according to CPD.
A man was shot Monday evening just a couple of doors away from Uptown Ald. James Cappleman’s ward office, according to Chicago police. The victim, 25, did not cooperate with police.
Chicago police on Monday night released CTA surveillance images of the man that investigators believe tried to kidnap a woman in the West Loop on Sunday morning.
Chicago police arrested Cary Mamola last week for, as a Cook County judge put it, a “miniature crime spree across [the] 3200 North Broadway area.” It was the 14th time CPD has arrested Mamola this year and the 40th time he’s been arrested since August 2014, according to police department records.
A man being sought for a downstate murder briefly escaped from Chicago police by bolting out of an Uptown hospital where they took him for treatment after he was arrested in connection with an armed robbery on Thursday, prosecutors said.
The 3-year-old boy who spent nearly 30 minutes at the bottom of Lake Michigan after his aunt allegedly tossed him off of Navy Pier and watched him drown has died, according to records from the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Chicago police have released new information about another kidnapping attempt that unfolded in the West Loop on Sunday morning. The apparent abduction attempt is the second to be reported on the same block in the past month.