3 ‘Young Juveniles’ Arrested For Taking Pizza From Woman
CHICAGO (STMW) – Three youngsters, one of whom was armed with a BB gun, were arrested after allegedly stealing a pizza from a woman walking to her Uptown neighborhood home Saturday night. The victim...
View Article‘Date Rape’ Drug Found On Sex Offender After Arrest
CHICAGO (STMW) – A Northwest Side registered sex offender was ordered held on $25,000 bond Sunday after police found the so-called date rape drug GHB on him after he left the scene of a Saturday night...
View ArticleMan Arrested With Cop Gear, Marijuana
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (STMW) – A man found traveling with law enforcement regalia, ammunition and marijuana has been arrested by west suburban Naperville police. The formal police report concerning the...
View ArticleEx-Cub Milton Bradley Arrested In Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (CBS) – Former Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley was arrested Tuesday morning in Los Angeles after he allegedly threatened a woman. CBSLosAngeles.com reported that Bradley, now of the Seattle...
View ArticleVillage Trustee Arrested After Resisting Arrest
DIXMOOR, Ill. (STMW) – A Dixmoor village trustee charged with resisting arrest and driving without a license in the south suburb Saturday claims he was unfairly targeted and physically assaulted by the...
View ArticleAldermanic Candidate Arrested At Polling Place
Updated 04/05/11 – 10:36 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – A candidate for alderman was arrested Tuesday afternoon at a South Side polling place and later charged with assault. Hal Baskin was running against...
View ArticleCity Council To Discuss Power Plant Emissions
CHICAGO (WBBM) – A Chicago City Council committee on Thursday will take up a proposed ordinance that would clamp new restrictions on emissions from two Southwest Side power plants, both of which are...
View ArticleMan Arrested In Connection With Four Burglaries
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (STMW) — A man has been arrested after detectives in southwest suburban Bolingbrook reportedly linked him to four recent burglaries. Maurice I. Mason, 51, was taken into custody...
View ArticleReport: N.Y. Rangers’ Sean Avery Arrested For Shoving Cop
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — New York Rangers star Sean Avery was arrested Friday morning for allegedly shoving a police officer at his Los Angeles home. TMZ reports Avery was having a party at his home in the...
View ArticleHabitual Arrestee Uses 3-Year-Old As Begging Prop
RIVERSIDE, Ill. (STMW) — A Chicago man was arrested for the 99th time Wednesday and charged with drug possession after allegedly using his 3-year-old child as a ruse to beg for money in west suburban...
View ArticleManny Ramirez Arrested In Florida On Domestic Battery Charges
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CBS) — Former World Series MVP Manny Ramirez was arrested in a domestic incident near his home in South Florida Monday night. Ramirez, 39, was charged with one count of battery,...
View ArticleSurfer Arrested At Oak Street Beach Gets Community Service
CHICAGO (CBS) – A North Side man arrested last month for illegally surfing off Oak Street Beach will have the charges against him dropped if he completes 20 hours of community service, but he...
View Article10 Arrested At Another Demonstration To Save Mental Health Clinic
UPDATED 04/24/12 8:44 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — Ten protesters were arrested Monday night after another protest at the Woodlawn Mental Health Clinic, which is set to close next week. Police began arresting...
View ArticleNotre Dame QB Rees Charged In Altercation With Police
UPDATED 05/03/12 – 6:25 p.m. SOUTH BEND, Ind. (CBS) — Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees has been charged with four misdemeanors, following a confrontation with police early Thursday morning. Rees...
View Article7 Of 8 Protesters Arrested At Obama Campaign HQ Released From Jail
CHICAGO (CBS) – Seven of the eight protesters who were arrested outside President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters on Monday were released from jail Tuesday. Those seven have agreed to plead guilty...
View ArticleReport: Sikh Temple Gunman’s Girlfriend Arrested, Facing Charges
OAK CREEK, Wis. (CBS) — Published reports say the girlfriend of the gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee has now been arrested. As WBBM Newsradio’s Bob Conway reports, a...
View ArticlePolice: Bogus Dentist Performed Hundreds Of Procedures
CHICAGO (CBS) — A man impersonating a dentist may have performed hundreds of procedures on patients before being arrested on Thursday, police said on Friday. Cook County Sheriff’s police, acting on a...
View ArticleRiver North Purse-Snatcher Chased Down, Detained By Witnesses
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 44-year-old woman was grabbed from behind, choked, thrown to the sidewalk, kicked and robbed Friday morning. But thanks to two heroic witnesses, a suspect is in custody. The suspect...
View Article8 Men Charged In Connection With Busted Dolton Dog Fight
(STMW) — Eight men have been charged Saturday after authorities broke up a dog fight at an industrial park in south suburban Dolton. The men were all charged with a felony count of attending or...
View ArticleCops: Arrest Of Parolee Part Of Crackdown On Gang Funeral Violence
CHICAGO (STMW) – The city’s crackdown on violence at gang funerals continued Wednesday when officers nabbed a parolee with a gun on the West Side, officials said. The parolee, David Freeman, was...
View ArticleBabysitter Arrested After Couple Finds Her Drunk
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...
View ArticlePortage Teen Arrested For Making Threats On Facebook
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...
View ArticleBears Tight End Evan Rodriguez Arrested
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...
View ArticleSuspect Arrested After Shootout With Police
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...
View ArticleSuspect Nabbed Within Minutes Of Melrose Park Bank Robbery
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....
View ArticleWrong-Way Drivers Caught On Eisenhower, Dan Ryan Expressway
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...
View ArticleMan Arrested For Posting Nude Photos Of Ex Online As Threat
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...
View ArticleMan Arrested For Bringing Concealed Firearm To BMW Championship
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...
View ArticleAlleged Shooter Arrested, Released, Arrested Again
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...
View ArticleMother, Boyfriend In Custody After Baby Is Injured
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...
View ArticleMan Cleared In Rape Case Arrested For Not Registering As Sex Offender
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...
View ArticleKeidel: Ray Rice Another Crack In NFL Shield
By Jason Keidel» More Columns 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...
View ArticleReport: Mole In Rezko, Carothers Cases Arrested For Fraud
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...
View ArticleChicagoan Arrested In Ferguson Says Police There Are ‘Out Of Control’
(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...
View ArticleMan Arrested In Robbery And Shooting of 71-Year-Old Chicago Lawn Man
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...
View ArticlePolice Use Stun Gun On Man Attempting To Have Sex With Car
(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...
View ArticleChloe Mrozak Of Oak Lawn Charged For Having Counterfeit COVID Vaccine Card In...
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...
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