Joaquin Urcino was sentenced to eight years in federal prison after he allegedly tried to shoot rival gang members. Federal prosecutors said he “has a predilection for violence…that he has demonstrated time and again.” The story of a Cook County judge who nixed a repeat gun offender’s no-bail order, set bail at $100,000, then released
Police are investigating an armed robbery reported in the Streeterville neighborhood on Tuesday night. No one is in custody. A 53-year-old woman said she was walking on 200 block of East Pearson near the Museum of Contemporary Art and Lake Shore Park when a man approached her and tried to take her purse around 10:45
Joaquin Urcino | CPD UPDATE SEPT. 5 — There’s even more to this story. CWBChicago has now learned that Joaquin Urcino was sentenced to eight years in federal prison after he allegedly tried to shoot rival gang members in 2008. More on that development is posted here.———- A Cook County judge conjured up a Very
Police are warning residents of Andersonville and Uptown about four recent burglaries that have been reported on Magnolia Avenue. Investigators typically issue an alert when they believe a person or group is responsible for a series of crimes. The first alert involves two burglaries on the 5500 block of North Magnolia on Aug. 8. Police
Approximate locations of the carjackings. An armed carjacking crew is suspected of targeting three people on the Northwest Side in under two hours Sunday morning. Police said in a community alert that between two and five offenders had ordered each victim from their vehicle at gunpoint. One victim, a 59-year-old woman, was pistol-whipped, according to
The Bluemercury store at 356 North Clark. | Google At least five robberies have been reported in the downtown area since Friday morning. Most recently, a man and woman robbed the Bluemercury cosmetics store at 356 North Clark around 4:12 p.m. on Sunday. A 35-year-old woman who works at the store told police that she
A recent Facebook post, shared more than 6,000 times, tells of a man who has allegedly touched many women inappropriately on CTA trains. CWBChicago looked into the allegations. What we found is a classic example of what happens when a troubled person is shown the government’s revolving door. According to court records, the man has
Antwane Lashley | CPD It’s been 18 months since Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart warned that he was “alarmed” by the number of accused gun offenders who were being released on their own recognizance, sometimes with electronic monitoring. “This needs to get fixed quick,” Dart told the Sun-Times in Feb. 2018. It hasn’t been fixed.
Anthony Hatley (inset) was arrested at the SWAT incident. | @WDUGJessica; Illinois State Police An Uptown man has been charged with felony failure to register as a sex offender after police arrested him on the scene of a SWAT team stand-off in Lincoln Park this week. Anthony Hatley, 58, was taken into custody after the stand-off
The 1200 block of West Cornelia. | Google A construction supervisor is in good condition after being shot during an on-going dispute with a day laborer at a Lakeview construction site on Friday morning, according to police and sources. Police were called to the 1200 block of West Cornelia at 10:30 a.m. after a man
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