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Shane Sleeper pleaded guilty to threatening staff members of Sidetrack and other victims. | CPD; DNAInfo Editors note: This report conveys the content of threatening messages that prosecutors say were transmitted by Shane Sleeper. We have not corrected spelling, grammar, or punctuation in the messages cited. The man accused of making terroristic threats against a

A Chicago police POD camera captured video of police officers being pepper sprayed and battered as they tried to arrest a man who is accused of beating a Boystown resident with a hammer during an online hook-up last weekend. The video, provided to CWBChicago by a source, shows officers approaching 29-year-old Cedrick Johnson on the corner

Cedrick Johnson was arrested outside of Beatnix costume shop in Boystown. | CPD; Google A Lakeview man who initially refused to press charges after being beaten with a hammer during an online hook-up Friday evening had a change of heart and decided to prosecute after the alleged offender injured several officers during a confrontation in the heart

The officers were injured at 802 West Roscoe, outside of Beatnix costume shop. | Google UPDATE: Charges filed. Story here. ——————————– Four police officers were injured in the Boystown neighborhood early Saturday when a suspected phone thief and aggravated battery offender’s large canister of pepper spray “exploded” as he struck a cop on the head with

UPDATE 1 —The events continued later in the evening. Story here. UPDATE 2 — Charges filed. Story here. ——— A Lakeview man is refusing to pursue criminal charges after being repeatedly struck in the head with a hammer Friday evening by a man he met through an online dating app, police said. Neighbors called police