CHICAGO (CBS) – A babysitter was arrested this week, after the couple who hired her came home and found her extremely drunk, police said.

WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports police said the 23-year-old woman was babysitting a 13-month-old Monday afternoon, in the 500 block of West Huron Street, while the child’s parents went out for a few hours.

When the couple returned, they found the babysitter slumped against the kitchen counter.

An ambulance took the babysitter to the hospital. According to a police report, her blood alcohol level was 0.36 – more than four times the legal limit of 0.08 for driving.

The babysitter, Jessica M. Vaughan, was charged with misdemeanor endangering the life and health of a child.

The toddler she was hired to babysit was not harmed.

PORTAGE, Ind. (CBS) – A 19-year-old Portage man was arrested at 8:30 a.m. Thursday for felony intimidation after reportedly posting threats on Facebook.

The father of one of Eric Rizley’s friends contacted police at 7:41 a.m. after seeing Rizley had posted: “Watch out portage people might be dying soon,” at about 4 a.m.

Rizley’s mother and several other people had commented on the post. Rizley’s responses, according to the police report, included: “No seriously imma go on a rampage,” “bang bang” and “No this is it I’m bout to flip out.”

Three officers went to Rizley’s family home, in the 3000 block of Angelina, and persuaded the young man to let them inside, assuring him they knew from the smell that he had been smoking marijuana but they weren’t concerned about that.

Rizley told police he had no intention of carrying out his threats.

That’s exactly what Rizley’s grandmother, who lives next door, told CBS 2 off camera, saying her grandson would never act out with a weapon even though she admits he has issues with anger.

Still friends and neighbors, who heard about his online outburst, aren’t as convinced.

“Knowing what’s gone on in other parts of the country, you get concerned,” said neighbor Tom Aldrich.

“Hopefully this will be the beginning of him receiving help,” said Portage Assistant Police Chief Bill Mesich.

A visiting friend told police Rizley had “serious anger issues” and showed several holes he reportedly had punched in the wall the day before, while drunk. He also said he did not think the teen would actually hurt anyone.

The person who made the initial police report described the 2012 Portage High School graduate, who works as a dishwasher, as “a kid who was teased a lot in school, but not a bad kid.”

As of Friday night, hat robbery remains unsolved as Rizley now faces a charge of felony intimidation.

The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.

Evan Rodriguez was arrested in Miami. (Credit: Miami police)

CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago Bears tight end Evan Rodriguez has been arrested in Miami on disorderly intoxication charges.

Rodriguez, 24, was arrested around 5:30 a.m. Thursday by Miami police.

He was also charged with resisting a police officer during an altercation at 6th Street and Alton Road in Miami Beach.

The Bears released the following statement regarding Rodriguez’s arrest.

“We are aware of the reports regarding Evan Rodriguez,” a press release stated. “We are currently gathering information to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the situation.”

His bond was set at $1,500. No further information about his arrest was immediately available.

The 6-6, 240 pound Rodriguez, who is entering his second year, saw limited action for the Bears last season, with four receptions for 21 yards.

He was drafted by the Bears in the fourth round in 2012.

CHICAGO (STMW) – A male who is believed to have exchanged gunfire with police early Wednesday was taken into custody a short distance from where the firefight occurred, police said.

The male, whose identity has not been released because he has not yet been charged, was shot in the exchange, said police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines. His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, Gaines said.

About 12:30 a.m., officers heard shots fired near the intersection of West 91st Street and South Ashland Avenue, said Fraternal Order of Police Spokesman Pat Camden.

When they arrived at the scene, the officers saw three males running from the area, Camden said.

Police chased one of them through several back yards in the 9200 block of South Justine Street. During the chase, the suspect turned around and shot at the officers, who then returned fire, Camden said.

The pursuit continued through the alley to the street, where the suspect raised his gun at officers again. Before he could shoot, officers fired again, Camden said.

While the gunman was initially at-large, blood was discovered in the area and it was believed that the officers had shot him Camden said.

The gunman was found wounded nearby, said Gaines said, who could not give an exact location of where the arrest was made.

No officers were injured and a semi-automatic handgun was recovered at the scene, Camden said.

Camden initially said he believed the gunman was a male who reportedly walked into Jackson Park Hospital with a bullet wound to the head, but that initial account was inaccurate, according to Gaines.

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MELROSE PARK, Ill. (STMW) – A suspect was nabbed just minutes after the robbery of a west suburban bank branch Tuesday morning by a police officer who was having coffee at a Starbucks a few doors down.

According to a federal criminal complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, the robber walked into the Fifth Third Bank branch at 2501 W. North Ave. in Melrose Park just after 10:30 a.m.

He approached a teller and inquired about purchasing a vehicle sticker, a statement from the FBI said. He then demanded cash and indicated he had a weapon, although no weapon was shown. The teller handed over about $8,000 that he placed in a red bank bag before running out.

According to the complaint, three witnesses who were at the Hooters restaurant next door to the bank, saw a man run into the parking lot and approach a gray 4-door Lexus. The man was clutching a red bag to his chest and they saw a puff of red mist coming from the bag. He threw something from the bag, then got into the Lexus and drove away.

At the same time, the complaint said, a Melrose Park police officer at a Starbucks in the same strip mall heard about the robbery on his police radio. He met the witnesses, who pointed out the Lexus, which was stopped at the red light at 25th and North.

The officer ran toward the Lexus and drew his weapon. As he approached, he yelled through the open car windows for the driver to raise his hands. The driver raised his hands, but at the same time accelerated into the intersection, colliding with another car.

After the crash, police apprehended 43-year-old Eric Murchinson of Chicago, according to the complaint. He was the only person in the Lexus, in which police found a red bank bag and cash on the floor, covered in red dye.

Murchinson was turned over to the FBI and charged with one count of bank robbery. He appeared late Tuesday before Magistrate Judge Michael T. Mason and was ordered held pending his next court appearance, the release said.

If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison.

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CHICAGO (CBS) – Illinois State Police said they believe alcohol was a factor in two incidents of wrong-way driving on Chicago expressways overnight.

WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports, around 1 a.m. Tuesday, state troopers stopped a woman heading north in the southbound lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway near Garfield Boulevard. She was arrested, and police believe alcohol was a factor in the case.

About a half hour earlier, troopers caught a man in his 20s who had been going north in the southbound lanes of the Dan Ryan, before heading west in the eastbound lanes of the Eisenhower Expressway.

That man crashed into a concrete barrier wall while trying to exit the interstate by using the on-ramp at Racine Avenue. He was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, but his injuries were not considered life-threatening.

The driver and a passenger both were taken into custody. The driver was charged with DUI, although his name and exact age were not immediately available.

The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.

Raul Martinez (Credit: Riverside Police)

RIVERSIDE, Ill. (STMW) – A Berwyn man was ordered held on $5,000 bond Monday for allegedly posting naked photos of his ex-girlfriend online — and threatening to post more if she didn’t come back to him.

The 21-year-old Riverside woman told police Sunday that her ex-boyfriend posted several naked pictures of her on his public Facebook account, Riverside police said in a release.

She also showed officers text messages from the man, in which he allegedly told her about the posts, and threatened to post more photos of her if she didn’t meet him in person to talk about repairing their relationship, police said.

The man continued text messaging the woman Sunday afternoon — even while she was at the police department as authorities investigated the case, the release said.

Investigators were able to obtain physical evidence that the photos were online and were available to the public, the release said.

Police found Raul Martinez, 24, at his last known address in the 2300 block of South Home Avenue in Berwyn and arrested him without incident at 5:15 p.m. Sunday, the release said.

Martinez is charged with one count of misdemeanor domestic harassment through electronic communication, authorities said.

On Monday, Judge Terrance McCarthy ordered Martinez held on $5,000 bond, said Cook County State’s Attorney’s office spokeswoman Lisa Gordon. He has since posted bond, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s office.

Martinez will be back in court Sept. 19.

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LAKE FOREST, Ill. (CBS) – Lake County prosecutors were reviewing possible charges against a suburban man arrested Monday for bringing a gun to the BMW Championship golf tournament in Lake Forest.

WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports 48-year-old Mark Fedder, of Westmont, was taken into custody shortly after the gates opened at 7 a.m. Monday at the Conway Farms Golf Club, when he tried to bring a concealed firearm into the club.

Police said a search of Fedder’s car turned up two more guns in the trunk.

Prosecutors were considering possible felony charges against Fedder.

Though Illinois recently passed a concealed carry law, it has yet to take effect, and no one has been issued a concealed carry permit. Illinois State Police are still working on certifying instructors for the firearms training people must take to get a permit.

The state must have permit applications available by early January. Once any application is submitted, state police have 90 days to review it, and approve or reject the application.

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (STMW) – A 44-year-old man arrested for shooting his neighbor in Venetian Village made bail and was released, and was arrested again Tuesday, Sept. 18, for violating an order of protection filed by the family of the neighbor who was shot.

Frank Gue, 44, of the 36000 block of Alice Lane was arrested by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office on charges of aggravated discharge of a firearm and reckless conduct, felonies that mean he could face up to 15 years in prison, said Lake County Assistant States Attorney Stephen Scheller.

Gue was arrested Friday evening, Sept. 13, after he allegedly shot his neighbor, Jeff Johnson, while the two of them shared beers in Johnson’s garage and talk turned to guns.

Gue went and retrieved his gun and brought it back to the garage and handed it to Johnson. Johnson noticed it was loaded and he unloaded it.

“At some point, Gue put the magazine back in the gun, pointed it at his neighbor and fired,” said Schuller.

He said they asked for $50,000 bond, but the judge set it at $25,000, and Gue was able to bond out and return home. Gue said it was an accident. Schuller said the sheriff’s deputy said Gue was highly intoxicated at the scene.

Joan Johnson said her daughter-in-law and grandkids were frightened of Gue.

While the bullet went through her son, she said it hit his spleen and diaphragm, broke two ribs, and nicked his lung and intestines.

“He had emergency surgery that night,” she said.

She also said the two were not friends. “They would just be nice to him because he was a neighbor,” she said.

“People need to be made aware of this guy. He needs to be watched,” Joan said. The family got an order of protection against Gue that said he could not come within 750 feet of the family and a judge explained that to him Monday.

On Tuesday, he was still at home and a sheriff’s deputy arrested him for violating the order of protection. He was in Lake County Jail Wednesday night on $50,000 bond.

Joan said the doctor told her Jeff was lucky.

“The doctor said one inch more and it would have gone through his heart,” claiming that it was a hollow-point slug designed to do more damage when it enters a person or animal.

“This is a scary time for all of us,” she said. “This crime was not an accident,” she said.

Sgt. Sara Balmes, spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said it was not an accidental shooting. “It was a negligent act.

He did purposely pull the trigger,” she said after talking with the detective handling the case.

Johnson said her son is recovering.

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GARY, Ind. (STMW) – A 5-month-old baby is in critical condition and not expected to survive severe head trauma that police say was caused by abuse.

Siarra Morgan, 19, mother of Syrus Morgan, is in custody, as is her boyfriend, Melvin McNair, 27. Both were arrested at the Methodist Hospitals Northlake campus emergency room Tuesday night after police were notified of the baby’s injuries.

Syrus, born May 5, was flown to University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital in Chicago. Emergency room physicians in Gary told police the baby suffered multiple skull fractures, had blood on the brain and broken ribs.

A spokeswoman at Comer said she could not release information on the infant’s condition.

Investigators said they conferred with medical personnel and the multiple injuries appear to be from physical abuse.

The baby’s mother told police she went to the store about 5 p.m., and while she was out, McNair called her and said there was something wrong with Syrus. She returned home and saw the baby’s lips were purple and he was not responding, so she called an ambulance.Medics took Syrus from the couple’s home at 4701 E. 10th Ave., in Aetna, to the hospital, where medical personnel determined the fractures could be caused by an assault. Patrolman Emilio Guajardo gathered information for a police report.

Detectives Cpl. Edward Gonzalez, Cpl. James Nielsen and Daryl Gordon are investigating.

Police said Morgan has lived in the area for about one year.

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CHICAGO (STMW) – Freed last month after being locked up more than a decade on a wrongful rape conviction, Carl Chatman was getting ready for a cup of coffee and church Sunday morning when Berwyn police officers arrived at his door, handcuffed him and took him into custody — still in his pajamas — on the grounds he had failed to register as a sex offender.

Though he was released within two hours of being placed in a cell, the arrest left him and his family feeling victimized again by a criminal justice system that has already robbed the 58-year-old of almost a fifth of his life.

“He’s a free man,” said his niece, Monica Lofton, 24, who witnessed the arrest. “Let him live his life.”

“When is it going to be over?” asked his sister, Theresa Chatman, who worked more than 11 years to get him out of jail.

Reached Sunday after Chatman’s release, Berwyn Mayor Robert J. Lovero and Police Cmdr. Joe Santangelo said it appeared his detention was caused by a records snafu.

“I never want to see anybody brought in to a police station or arrested if there’s not some type of probable cause,” Lovero said.

Sex offenders have to register with the state after being released from prison. But in Chatman’s case, his conviction was “vacated,” which means the charges were dropped. Before the rape conviction, he had no prior record to speak of, except for minor offenses associated with being homeless and mentally ill, said Sally Daly, press secretary for Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez.

Chatman has a low IQ, bipolar disorder and paranoid schizophrenia. He takes medication and speaks slowly and choppily. But he sounded deliberate Sunday when he said he knows what he’s going to do in the future.

“I don’t go for walks no more,” he said. “I think it’s a wise choice.”

Two relatives present during Sunday’s arrest said his jailing could have been avoided if the officers had been willing to read documents kept in a neat file in their home, proving he was cleared of the crime.

Instead, “As soon as I opened the door, they just bust in in their uniforms,” said Theresa Chatman. She said she counted seven officers.

“I thought it was SWAT.” When she asked for a warrant, “They even told me they would arrest me.”

“I said, ‘How are you a registered sex offender when you have a piece of paper [issued in September] from the state of Illinois saying that he should be released immediately and his sentence should be vacated ?’ ” Lofton said. An officer “immediately brushed me off and told me to shut up.”

Chatman’s attorney, Russell Ainsworth, went to the Berwyn Police Department Sunday to get him out of jail. “The seven police officers that rushed their way into Theresa’s apartment refused to look at that documentation,” he said.

Santangelo said his officers discovered Chatman was found to be unregistered while they were conducting regular quarterly checks to ensure documentation of local sex offenders.

Officers aren’t able to sort out details on the spot, Santangelo said. “Once we can verify through reviewing the paperwork and comparing it with what the computer was telling us….he was released immediately, but we cannot do that on the street.”

“I have asked the Berwyn police commander to direct all his officers that Carl Chatman is not a registered sex offender and they have promised to follow up with the Illinois state police,” Ainsworth said.

“If the paperwork states that he’s not in violation, then he definitely is a free man,” Santangelo said. “There’ll be no problems with the Berwyn Police Department.”

A woman accused Chatman of raping her at the Daley Center in 2002. In 1979, the woman alleged another man had sexually assaulted her in another downtown office building. She filed civil lawsuits seeking money in both cases, and Alvarez has questioned her credibility.

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Even by the pro athlete’s subterranean standards, the Ray Rice video was shocking.

While getting my civil libertarian on, burping bromides about the presumption of innocence, my wonderful woman pointed out the frigid disregard with which Rice handled his fiancee’s limp body in that Atlantic City casino a few days ago.

Rice dragged – not carried – her from that elevator, then lifted, yanked, and plopped her limbs on the floor, just barely into the hallway. Then, realizing her feet were still in the doorway, he hoisted her lifeless legs, twisted them just enough to let the door close, then dropped them back onto the carpet.

He made no effort to heal or cradle or care for his unconscious fiancee. He regarded her with the chilling apathy of a stranger, as though her sprawling frame were a hurdle between himself and a vital date with the blackjack table.

Of all the places in America to (allegedly) abuse a woman, a casino is the absolutely worst place to keep it clandestine. Casinos have more cameras than a bank vault. Now we hear reports that police have even more damning video, perhaps of Rice actually striking his fiancee.

But the Rice incident is just the latest in a line of disturbing reports, from Atlantic City to Miami to Los Angeles, where the NFL doesn’t even have a franchise. And at some point the league must meditate on the problem to see if they somehow either enable or encourage this conduct.

The NFL is always stretching the human dichotomy, asking them to be beasts during the day, then ambassadors of the shield at night, beer in hand, at the strip club or street corner, where the demons dance.

So it’s no surprise the NFL has a violence problem. Maybe it was always so. Perhaps the players of our youth were similarly predisposed to vulgar, violent behavior. Maybe the only difference is the proliferation of social media, a 24-hour endeavor that keeps the curtain lifted on the lives of all our celebrities.

Mix the perilous behavior with prehistoric impulses and you have the Miami Dolphins, who have been under America’s microscope ever since Jonathan Martin said Enough. Enough to Richie Incognito, the rest of his line, his team, his coaches, and the entire apparatus that allows for bigotry and bullying.

Somehow the scorched earth policy across Miami vaporized everyone but the man in charge, head coach Joe Philbin. NFL coaches are so quick to assert their authority, until it’s inconvenient to do so. The buck stopped with Philbin, but the reckless bucks on his offensive line crossed the line with alarming indifference to decency.

So the offensive line coach and head trainer, casualties in the Martin/Incognito saga, are culpable, but not the boss. If you watched “Hard Knocks” you saw that Philbin always had a Mr. Magoo quality to him, aloof to the core and the chore of leading the Dolphins, who are just a hot mess right now.

So if you’re wondering why Philbin was at the combine yesterday, you’re not the only one. You can’t lead with your mouth, which is what Philbin did at the dais, spewing his scripted platitudes about responsibility and a new world order in Miami. That was his task when he arrived a few years ago, to remold a moribund franchise that has floundered ever since Dan Marino and Don Shula ended their bejeweled careers.

You can’t be a part-time leader. Not in the NFL. No sport takes on the head coach’s hard-hat ethos more than football. No sport lives or dies on the decisions of its coach like football does. Teams can pivot on one personnel move, one whistle blown, on one player cut, on a coach fired. And it’s time Philbin joins his fallen colleagues.

The Miami makeover isn’t complete without coach Philbin paying his share of the tax. Particularly after listening to his presser yesterday, during which he laid out the conflicting assertions that he was entirely responsible for the work environment yet had no idea that said climes were so tattered last year.

And the NFL is paying a surging surcharge on the duality it demands from its players, and its impact spans the social and racial landscape. Ray Rice. Richie Incognito. Rae Carruth. Jovan Belcher. Aaron Hernandez. Mike Vick.

And if the Rice video weren’t disturbing enough, former NFL star Darren Sharper has been charged with galling crimes this week. Police in Los Angeles arrested Sharper for allegedly drugging and raping several women.

The LAPD claims that Sharper, an analyst for NFL Network (for about ten more minutes) used a cocktail that included morphine to sedate the women before he assaulted them in various hotel rooms. According to the Los Angeles Times, Sharper has been ordered to surrender his passport and stay within city limits, which isn’t something you hear when law enforcement is uncertain about your guilt.

Sharper isn’t the first, any more than Aaron Hernandez was the last. And yet we have no assurances from the league that it’s addressing it’s expanding blotter.

For decades, the NFL has deflected all manner of miscreants, somehow plopping them into a distant pile, from which the splash of sin has yet to reach the logo.

And this makes no mention of the concussion lawsuit – which still isn’t resolved – nor of poor souls like Andre Waters, Dave Duerson, and Junior Seau, who took their own lives, perhaps specifically because of the head trauma they suffered as NFL players.

The NFL shield has remained remarkably clean while many of its marquee names have been historically dirty. Money and power can buy plenty of good publicity, and it’s no coincidence that the NFL was essentially branded and launched by a brilliant ad executive named Pete Rozelle.

But at some point it’s less important to remain clean than it is to come clean. Roger Goodell needs to know that even a league as muscular as the NFL could use a little humility, and realize that admitting an illness is not a weakness.

Twitter: @JasonKeidel

Jason writes a weekly column for CBS Local Sports. He is a native New Yorker, sans the elitist sensibilities, and believes there’s a world west of the Hudson River. A Yankees devotee and Steelers groupie, he has been scouring the forest of fertile NYC sports sections since the 1970s. He has written over 500 columns for WFAN/CBS NY, and also worked as a freelance writer for Sports Illustrated and Newsday subsidiary amNew York. He made his bones as a boxing writer, occasionally covering fights in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, but mostly inside Madison Square Garden.

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CHICAGO (STMW) – Federal authorities gave long-time government mole John Thomas a Good Friday surprise, arresting him at his home early Friday morning, the Sun-Times is reporting.

Thomas, who was a major player in the investigation into political fundraiser Tony Rezko as well as former Ald. Ike Carothers — including wearing a wire to record conversations — allegedly stole $370,000 from the Village of Riverdale in tax increment financing funds connected to the development of Riverdale Marina.

A three-count indictment unsealed Friday alleges the real estate developer, 51, used the stolen taxpayers’ money to repay personal loans and debts, legal fees, rent and other personal expenses.

The money was meant to be used to renovate the Riverdale Marina, where Thomas’s business, Nosmo Kings LLC, kept an office.

But in 2012, Thomas created fake invoices for non-existent companies and for companies that never performed work at the marina in order to fraudulently obtain reimbursement from the village, it’s alleged.

Each of the three counts of wire fraud Thomas faces carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

He is expected to appear in federal court later Friday.

In 2010, Thomas escaped prison time and instead received three years’ probation in Chicago’s federal court for his role in a scheme tied to his days in New York.

In a 2008 interview with the Sun-Times, Thomas said his life had become “frantic” as he amassed hundreds of hours of recorded conversations for federal investigators while trying to maintain the real estate business he had built over time.

For a time, Thomas helped investigators build a record of repeat visits to the old offices of Rezko and former business partner Daniel Mahru’s Rezmar Corp., at 853 N. Elston, by then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

He worked to rebuild his reputation in the years that followed, though several high-profile deals he was involved with fell through.

In 2008, he told the Sun-Times he was was glad he was getting a second chance in Chicago, telling a reporter, the city “is a wonderful place to do this kind of business. It is the most forgiving.”

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(CBS) – National Guard troops are starting to pull out of Ferguson, Mo., but the protests continue – and so do the arrests.

CBS 2’s Dorothy Tucker talked to a Chicago man who spent more than five hours behind bars in the St. Louis-area community, which has been racked by unrest since a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black man.

Max Suchan spent five days in with the protesters, working for the National Lawyers Guild’s Legal Observer program, documenting police misconduct.

He got a real up-close look Tuesday night, Suchan says, when he ended up face-down on the ground — arrested.

“I’ve seen them treat people like animals,” he says.

“I’m a legal observer. I was clearly marked,” Suchan adds. “I think that’s evidence of how out of control the police are in Ferguson right now.”

Ferguson city leaders accuse outside agitators of inciting the crowds. At times, police have responded with tear gas, prompting a fundraiser on gofundme, raising more than $11,000 to buy protection gear for protesters.

Organizer Kristiana Colon says although protesters are preparing for the worst, they are hoping for peaceful protests.

“I think people are tired of feeling like black lives don’t matter,” she says. “This has become a galvanizing point.”

CHICAGO (CBS) — A man was arrested and charged Friday in connection to the robbery and shooting of a 71-year-old Chicago Lawn man.

Antoine J. Davis, 30, of the 6800 block of South Washtenaw Avenue was arrested Friday night at approximately 4:15 p.m. outside his residence, according to Chicago Police.

Antoine Davis (Credit: Chicago Police)

Davis was charged after being identified as the armed male offender. Surveillance video from a neighbor’s house showed the whole attack from start to finish.

Davis and another man approached 71-year-old Fred LaGuardia, Tuesday, Sept. 6 while he was watering his neighbor’s lawn on the 7000 block of South California Avenue. The suspects demanded LaGuardia’s wallet; after he refused Davis shot LaGuardia in the stomach, robbed him and fled the scene on bicycle.

LaGuardia has been released from the hospital and is recovering.

The Marquette Park community announced Thursday a $10,000 reward for information, in hopes someone would come forward after watching the video.

Davis faces robbery and aggravated battery with firearm charges.

Davis was scheduled to appear Saturday in Cook County Bond Court. He was held without bond.

There was no immediate information on whether the second man involved in the incident has been caught.

There is no further information at this time.

(CBS) — A Kansas man attempting to insert his penis into the tailpipe of a car had to be subdued with a stun gun after refusing to listen to police.

“We were called to the 1200 block of East Broadway to a report of a naked male underneath a car,” said Lt. Scott Powell of the Newton (Kansas) Police Department. “.. He was attempting to stick his penis into the tailpipe of the vehicle.”

The suspect did not respond to officer commands and officers used a stun gun to subdue him, the Newton Kansan reported.

Powell said the man was intoxicated to the point of being incoherent.

Police submitted a report to city prosecutors recommending a misdemeanor charge of lewd and lascivious behavior, the Associated Press reported.

OAK LAWN, Ill. (CBS) — If you’re going to present a fake COVID vaccination card, you might want to make sure it’s spelled right.

A woman from the southwest suburbs is in a Honolulu jail after being caught with a counterfeit vaccine card. Chloe Mrozak of Oak Lawn arrived Monday, Aug. 23 after uploading the fake vaccine card to avoid Hawaii’s mandatory 10-day quarantine, authorities said.

(Credit: CBS)

State investigators arrested Mrozak, 24, when she went to the airport Saturday for her flight home. Investigators were able to identify Mrozak based on a distinctive tattoo on her hip, which authorities found on her Facebook profile.

She had ignored attempts by authorities to contact her about her suspect COVID card during her six-day stay.  A screener at the airport had raised concerns about the authenticity of Mrozak’s vaccine record, but she was allowed to leave the airport. An administrator later contacted Special Agent Wilson Lau with the state attorney general’s office with suspicion that Mrozak’s card was fraudulent.

Chloe Mrozak (Facebook)

In an affidavit, Lau said he attempted to contact Mrozak by phone and email she provided on the form that travelers fill out when entering the state. He also found that Mrozak did not have a reservation at the hotel she put on the travel form.

The one big mistake: Moderna is spelled wrong on the card, as “Maderna.” It also said she got the shot in Delaware, but Lau said the state had no record of her vaccination.

In an interview with CBS 2’s Marissa Parra, Lau said: “That’s one contributing factor, the others were how evasive the information was on our Safe Travel Hawaii program [form], such as her failure to indicate her hotel reservation as well as her departure flight information. That led to further inquiries that launched the investigation.”

(Credit: CBS)

Lau said she also gave false information about her return flight, stating she was returning on American Airlines when, in fact, she had purchased a round-trip ticket on Southwest. She was arrested at the Southwest gate, with a boarding pass.

Mrozak is being held on $2,000 bail. At last check, she remained in custody “pending trial for prohibited acts emergency management.”

A woman answered the door to the address listed as Mrozak’s home, but declined to comment.

In Hawaii, using falsified proof of testing or vaccination documents for travel into the state is a misdemeanor that carries a fine of up to $5,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year for each count.

‘We take falsified vaccinations and falsified PCR tests very seriously,” Lau said.

“Being caught with false documents outweigh the costs of just a simple PCR test and it’s not worth it,” he said.

If you receive a vaccination from somewhere in U.S. territories, you can enjoy Hawaii without getting a test or quarantining – but travel must be 15 days after your final shot.

Otherwise, you must have provide a negative COVID-19 PCR test, which must come from a provider on a list of “trusted partners with Safe Travel Program” and must be taken within 72 hours before your flight to Hawaii.

If you do not have a vaccination card or you do not provide a negative PCR COVID test, you must self-quarantine for 10 days.

We are told this was the seventh arrest Hawaiian authorities have made against U.S. travelers faking vaccine documents.

In the last two months, they have arrested two travelers from California, two from Florida, two from Georgia, and Mrozak from Illinois.