Portage Park

A man on parole for posing as a police officer during a violent home invasion is now accused of selling guns and drugs to undercover federal agents at his Portage Park home.

A 21-year-old man from Portage Park is facing charges for allegedly firing a gun through his apartment ceiling Thursday night, grazing his upstairs neighbor, Chicago police said.

Prosecutors say a Portage Park man was busted after accepting a package containing more than a pound of cocaine that U.S. Customs agents had rigged with alarms and tracking devices. The man, described as a “foreign national” with multiple warrants, is accused of trafficking narcotics into Chicago.

A 19-year-old man is facing a stack of felony charges for allegedly lining up a car sale and turning it into a violent carjacking on the Northwest Side, sparking a wild police chase that ended with him crashing twice and hiding behind a tree.

A 61-year-old man has been detained after police and prosecutors say he wore a disguise, brought a gun onto school grounds, and tossed a Molotov cocktail into a dumpster outside Horizon Science Academy. The CPD Bomb Squad responded and found two additional guns in his car.

A 15-year-old boy killed two small animals in a family’s backyard on the Northwest Side last month, Chicago police said Wednesday.

A 57-year-old man is recovering after being shot in the leg by a car burglar he confronted in Portage Park on Saturday night, according to Chicago police.