Chicago police officers arrested a fleeing North Side bank robber this week when the suspect’s bicycle hit a speed bump and hurled him to the ground, according to a federal complaint.
Let’s check in and see how things are going with some of Chicago’s “new neighbors,” at the city’s newly-opened migrant shelter at 1308 North Elston, across from the Salt Shed.
An 18-year-old “Kia Boy” was part of a burglary crew that stole cash registers and a “significant” amount of tobacco products from a North Side convenience store, prosecutors say.
A man who carjacked a Lyft driver, crashed the vehicle, and then tried to hide from swarming Chicago police officers by hiding inside a dumpster at the city’s 911 call center has been sentenced to nine years in prison, according to court records.
A Chicago man accused of carjacking a 55-year-old woman in River North will be released on an ankle monitor after a Cook County judge rejected a prosecutor’s request to have him detained as a public safety threat.
Two robbery victims were shot Wednesday morning when one of them, a concealed carry holder, exchanged gunfire with the offenders, according to Chicago police. The victims are the fourth and fifth people to get shot during robberies in the city since Saturday afternoon.
A Venezuelan who died at one of Chicago’s migrant shelters in June was killed by a deadly mix of cocaine and fentanyl, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.