A convicted felon dragged a Chicago police officer with his car during a traffic stop in Lakeview, then ran from the scene, leaving a gun inside the vehicle, prosecutors said. Michael Franklin, 38, was held in lieu of $250,000 bail by Judge David Navarro during a bail hearing on Sunday afternoon.
Chicago police are investigating a wave of at least 11 sometimes violent robberies that occurred in Humboldt Park, Logan Square, and West Town after midnight Sunday. It’s not clear how many robbery crews were involved in the spree.
An 18-year-old man who was shot by an off-duty Chicago police officer when he and two others allegedly tried to carjack her on Thursday was on bond for allegedly driving another hijacked car in August, according to court records.
Chicago police are investigating after a man was shot while sitting in a car in the 400 block of South Wells on Friday evening. He is the 11th person shot on the same block this year.
A Lakeview man who was accused of beating, robbing, and trying to sexually assault a woman inside a lakefront apartment building has been found not guilty by reason of insanity, according to court records.
A security guard who worked at high-profile events in Chicago shot and killed an unarmed man on the Red Line after stealing the victim’s can of Pepsi, authorities said Friday.
The man accused of tossing $6,300 worth of packaged heroin out of a Lexus that belonged to the Chicago Police Department’s Chief of Internal Affairs has been sentenced to two years in prison following a bench trial.
Two men, both convicted felons, charged with robbing a couple at gunpoint in the West Loop on Wednesday night, have been held without bail by a Cook County judge.
News about shoplifting mobs and organized retail theft have faded from Chicago headlines, but the crimes are still happening and the CPD’s Organized Retail Crime task force is still making arrests. Here are some recent cases.
Chicago police say a woman was carjacked while loading items into her vehicle in Andersonville yesterday evening. But CPD is receiving fewer hijacking reports this month than during last October and October 2020.
A US Postal Service mail carrier was robbed at gunpoint of his master key while making deliveries in Bucktown on Thursday morning, according to a Chicago police report.