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Month: December 2024
Citywide
Business burglars get sentences of 4 to 10 years
Perhaps no crime has caused more frustration across Chicago this year than the seemingly endless nighttime burglaries of businesses, usually restaurants and bars. CPD has released dozens of community alerts about various burglary teams this year, but very few arrests have been made. This month, two men accused separately of being serial business burglars reached plea deals with prosecutors. A third recently pleaded guilty to burglarizing and robbing businesses. Here’s a look at how they fared in court…
Avondale
North Lawndale
South Shore
Man who shot at SWAT team during hostage standoff killed a woman hours earlier, prosecutors say
A man awaiting trial for allegedly shooting at Chicago police officers while holding his ex and her son hostage last year is now accused of killing a woman in the days leading up to the incident. Steven Wade, 44, has been in the Cook County Jail since March 2023 in connection with the hostage situation that was only resolved after a SWAT team raided his ex-girlfriend’s home.
Humboldt Park
Greater Grand Crossing
Loop
Postal inspector busted mail thief after a three-day stakeout in the Loop, officials say
A U.S. Postal Inspector hunting a suspected mail thief spent three days on a stakeout before finally catching his man at 4 a.m. on Christmas Eve, according to Chicago police. At the time of his arrest, the man was on pretrial release for another case in which he is accused of possessing five postal service master keys and a stolen U-Haul van in Edgewater.
West Loop
At least 5 are robbed, carjacked during 45-minute crime spree in the West Loop
At least five people were targeted in robberies and carjackings in the West Loop during an armed crime spree that lasted less than 45 minutes. Given similar sprees that have popped up in the area and surrounding neighborhoods over the past month, it seems certain that armed crews are once again working the area with regularity.
Back of the Yards
Edgewater
Biden commutes death sentence for Edgewater’s ‘Medicare Murderer’
In one of his last official acts, President Joseph Biden this week commuted the death sentences of 37 federal prisoners held in Terre Haute, Indiana, and reclassified them to life sentences without the possibility of parole. One of those death row inmates was Chicago’s very own Ronald Mikos, a one-time North Side podiatrist convicted of murdering 54-year-old nurse Joyce S. Brannon in Edgewater on January 27, 2002.
Edgewater
CTA