Investigators are still trying to determine how a firearm surrendered by an inmate at the Cook County jail last week was brought into the facility. But a source said he found it shortly before turning it in.
COPA, the agency charged with investigating shootings and major accidents involving Chicago police officers, has released videos and other records from a car crash that left a man dead and two others injured as cops were following a suspect vehicle last month in McKinley Park.
CHICAGO — A man is in critical condition after being found unconscious, suffering from gunshot wounds in Chicago Lawn on Monday evening. Nobody called 911 to report gunfire, and, in fact, the person who found the man wasn’t even sure he had been shot. The shooting occurred in an area that used to be served
A federal judge has sentenced a man to 14½ years in prison for a violent 2018 crime spree in the Gold Coast during which he shot two people, stole three cars, and tried to steal two more.
A man who repeatedly aimed a gun at an on-duty Chicago police officer because he wanted to be involved in a police pursuit has been given a two-year prison sentence. But Malcolm Moffett-Brown will not spend any time in prison because his sentence will be offset by credits earned by being on electronic monitoring while the case was pending.
Prosecutors have charged a man with robbing and carjacking a rideshare driver after investigators determined that his Uber account was used to order the victim’s fateful ride, according to court records.
Two men have been charged with robbing a New York City man aboard a Red Line train this month. One of them was previously accused of participating in a robbery attempt that was so violent, that the victim jumped from a moving Red Line train to get away.
Four more people have pleaded guilty to participating in a massive, years-long gift card scam that caused Chicago-area Home Depot stores to lose more than $6 million.
Three men are charged with possessing cocaine and firearms, including a machine gun, after running from a stolen car on the Northwest Side, officials said. The driver of the Lexus got away, but not before someone fired shots at Chicago cops.
There are many unanswered questions about the shocking domestic attack in which a woman was allegedly murdered by her husband, who was wearing a GPS monitor for a pending domestic violence case. We secured a transcript to learn why the judge sent him home on an ankle monitor instead of keeping him in jail as prosecutors wanted. We also found that the judge denies detention petitons far more often than his peers.