March 2023

Cellular stores robbed in Lincoln Park, North Center

March 24, 2023 9:11 AM CWBChicago

Chicago police are investigating two cellular store robberies that unfolded just minutes apart Thursday evening in Lincoln Park and North Center.

2 charged after threatening woman with gun during catalytic converter theft, Chicago police say

March 24, 2023 8:53 AM CWBChicago

A man and a 15-year-old boy face felony charges for allegedly threatening a woman with a handgun while trying to steal her catalytic converter just west of Goose Island on Thursday afternoon, Chicago police said.

Man convicted of raping woman he met at Lakeview nightclub; 3 other cases still pending

March 24, 2023 7:45 AM CWBChicago

A Lakeview man accused of sexually assaulting four women between 2002 and 2017, including three women he met at Chicago bars, has been convicted in one case.

Now charged with murder, Chicago man had a ‘success story so moving it was featured on ABC News’

March 23, 2023 7:17 PM CWBChicago

Kevin McMurtry had a “success story so moving it was featured on ABC News,” his defense attorney said Thursday after prosecutors charged him with first-degree murder in Chicago.

6 years for man who robbed CTA passenger of their phone so he could watch porn

March 23, 2023 9:51 AM CWBChicago

A Chicago man who allegedly robbed a Red Line passenger of their phone so he could watch porn, just two days after being arrested for pleasuring himself while watching schoolchildren arrive for class, has been sentenced to six years.

Man carjacked salesman during Land Rover test drive, officials say

March 23, 2023 8:31 AM CWBChicago

Prosecutors say the Chicago man who carjacked a Northwest Side auto dealership salesman during a test drive last year was caught because he gave the dealership a fake driver’s license that bore the picture from his real driver’s license.

Lakeview carjacker who unwisely drove into law ‘n’ order Will County is smacked with 22-year sentence

March 23, 2023 7:18 AM CWBChicago

The man who carjacked an Uber driver in Chicago last year, then told cops who arrested him in Will County that he would “be out by Sunday” will, in fact, not be out for many, many years.

At least 2 Chicago cops are benched amid allegations of missing guns, false paperwork

March 22, 2023 5:19 PM CWBChicago

Chicago’s police oversight agency, COPA, is investigating allegations that at least two Chicago police officers improperly inventoried firearms that they recovered while working on the city’s Far South Side. The full scope of the investigation and exactly how many cops are involved is not yet clear.

Crime Stoppers offers $15,000 reward for tips in unsolved 2020 Chicago murder case

March 22, 2023 1:22 PM CWBChicago

An anti-crime group is offering up to $15,000 for information that leads to charges in the fatal shooting of Jean Carlos Cobian in Chicago in December 2020.

5 victims robbed at gunpoint 2 pistol-whipped overnight, Chicago police say

March 22, 2023 11:59 AM CWBChicago

Five people were targeted in three separate armed robberies overnight, according to Chicago police, with incidents reported in Uptown, Lincoln Park, and Noble Square.