A would-be Divvy thief tries to disengage a bike’s locking mechanism this summer. | Facebook The operators of Chicago’s Divvy bike share program have conducted their annual inventory of the system’s ubiquitous blue bicycles. But the true extent of this summer’s widespread theft of bikes from docking stations may not be known for another year
Left to right: Jamaal Ashshaheed; Javion Bush; Jamar Jarvis and Raynell Lanford | CPD Four adults and a juvenile have been charged with carjacking an off-duty Chicago police officer in the Edgewater neighborhood early Thursday and attempting a second carjacking nearby. The 47-year-old officer was parking her Lexus SUV in the 5800 block of North Winthrop shortly
Daniel Espejo | Cook County Sheriff A West Ridge man is charged with trying to rob a 17-year-old girl in the Andersonville neighborhood. Almost as scary as what he is accused of doing is what he allegedly told police after they arrested him. Prosecutors said 36-year-old Daniel Espejo approached the girl and asked for the
The Jewel-Osco store at 2940 North Ashland, | Google A group of gunmen carjacked a man in the parking lot of a Lakeview grocery store early Tuesday, police said. No one is in custody. The 24-year-old victim told police that three men wearing ski masks emerged from two cars and demanded his property around 2:55
Approximate locations of the crew’s crimes. A two-man carjacking crew that struck in Lakeview and Andersonville on Monday returned on Tuesday night with robbery attempts in Lincoln Park and North Center. They remain on the loose. Police said a Lincoln Park man was driving near the 2500 block of North Bosworth when his car was
Last night’s carjacking took place here, at the intersection of Rush and Pearson. | Google Detectives are investigating a carjacking reported late Monday night just a block from the Magnificent Mile and the “Viagra Triangle.” No one is in custody. It was at least the third carjacking on the North Side yesterday. Police said a
Armed carjackers who forced two men from their vehicle on an Andersonville side street Monday afternoon may be the same offenders who carjacked a man in Lakeview earlier in the day, according to a police department source. According to information provided by police and a friend of the victims, a man and his partner were
Skywalker shoes (left) and Andersonville Wine and Spirits | Yelp! Two Andersonville businesses were targeted by burglars early Saturday, police said. The same crew is suspected of pulling off both break-ins. First, two men broke through the front door of Skywalker shoes, 5668 North Clark around 3:25 a.m. The men collected boxes of athletic shoes
Orozco | Chicago Police It has happened again. A man who worked as an apartment building janitor burglarized apartments in the complex, taking cash and jewelry, according to prosecutors Similar charges were filed against an Uptown man in February and a Lakeview condo building maintenance worker in January. Prosecutors say 30-year-old Eriberto Orozco accessed six
Some of the 13 bikes and parts that cops say they recovered from Sean Ahern (inset). | Chicago Police Dept Cops recovered at least thirteen suspected stolen bikes “and parts to many, many more” during the arrest of an Edgewater man, police said. Sean Ahern, 25, was arrested at his home in the 6000 block
O’Neal | Chicago Police Dept A 45-year-old career criminal who’s charged with robbing an Edgewater Walgreens at gunpoint last week has been connected to at least two other 2017 robberies, including a Bucktown carjacking, police said. Brian O’Neal brandished a gun and robbed the Walgreens at 5625 North Ridge around 2 a.m. on Thursday, police
Police this afternoon issued a community alert after detectives connected three recent robberies in the Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods. In each case, one or two robbers have approached people on the street or in an alley and demanded valuables at gunpoint. The alert did not offer details on the incidents, but CWBChicago has learned additional
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