Prosecutors have charged a man with repeatedly stabbing another man in the Loop on Thursday morning. Jamari Bryant, 26, is scheduled to appear for a detention hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Saturday afternoon.
“Leave no man behind.” It’s a concept almost as old as warfare itself. But it apparently does not apply to Chicago’s crash-and-grab burglary teams. Because that’s exactly what happened Friday morning in Rogers Park, and the man who got left behind is now in custody.
Mail theft continues to be a big problem in Chicago, with culprits robbing postal workers and stealing items from residential mailboxes, all to fuel massive identity theft operations.
A concealed carry holder accused of pistol-whipping and firing a gun over the head of a woman in Wrigleyville last weekend was not taken to court to see a judge because her alleged behavior did not qualify for detention under the SAFE-T Act, according to Chicago police.
State officials on Thursday honored 9 Illinois police officers who died in the line of duty last year. Noting that the man accused of killing a Chicago officer last year was wearing an ankle monitor at the time of the murder, Comptroller Susana Mendoza blasted laws that “give more rights to the criminals.”
A 14-year-old boy shot and critically injured a man who pulled a knife on a woman during a domestic altercation in Hyde Park last night, Chicago police said.
An armed sexual assault suspect is in custody after he attacked a woman in Rogers Park late Thursday night, Chicago police said. Now, detectives will be working to determine if the man is also the serial rapist they’ve been looking for in West Rogers Park.
A west suburban man has been given a five-year federal prison sentence for cyberstalking a man who rejected his sexual advances. Kevin Cruz, 34, created multiple fake profiles of the victim on dating apps and sent “hundreds of men” to the victim’s home for sexual rendezvous, officials said.
Arson investigators are hunting for a firebug who has tossed Molotov cocktails into two cannabis dispensaries on the North and Northwest Sides. They say he’s started two fires since April 19, both during the overnight hours.
A man who died after being found shot near an Edgewater condo building last month accidentally shot himself in the leg, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office says.