On the afternoon of Jan. 9, police received a call of a reported bank robbery at a Gold Coast Chase Bank. Officers arriving at the bank, 1200 N. State Parkway., initially pulled over a car that was leaving the bank, but after conducting an interview they found that the driver was not involved in the incident.

Tellers at the bank told police that at around 1:26 p.m., a man entered the bank and slid a brown napkin to one of the tellers which read “This is a robbery, I have a gun, give me your cash, I want $100s, 50s and 20s.” The man then took the note back.

The teller complied and handed over a pile of $50 and $20 notes, totaling $2,380, which the man inserted into what appeared to be an old Dominick’s bag. The offender then exited the bank and fled westbound on Division Street.

An assistant manager and another teller who witnessed the incident corroborated the teller’s account of robbery. Officers and FBI agents were able to view pictures of the suspect from the bank’s security camera, and according to a police report for the incident the man resembled a suspect from a previous bank robbery at 1700 N. Wells St.

A woman who was robbed at a CTA train stop was able to ID the offenders with the help of video surveillance. At around 5:00 p.m. on Jan. 5, a woman was ascending the steps at the Chicago Red Line stop when a male teenager who was part of a group reached out and grabbed her phone.

The group then fled south through an alley, and shortly after that images of the offenders were recorded by police cameras at a nearby street corner. Police later showed the pictures to the victim, who identified the six teenagers as the same ones who had made off with her phone. Officers from the 1st District were able to assist in naming five of the six teenagers. No arrests had been made at the time of the police report for the incident.

A woman told police that an unknown person picked her pocket while on a crowded CTA train sometime during the early evening of Jan. 6.

The woman, a Pennsylvania resident, told officers that after she realized her wallet was missing, she contacted her bank and learned the offender had used her card to make a $25 purchase at a CTA machine. The woman then suspended her account. The theft occurred somewhere around 500 block of North State Street.

A man was attacked by two unknown suspects on the 1900 block of North Sheffield Avenue at around 3:15 a.m. on Jan. 8.

The man, 25, told police that he was walking by an alleyway near his home when two men emerged and approached him. One of the men then yelled “Wallet!” before punching then victim the face.

The attackers, believed to be in their 20s, then pulled the victim to the ground and began kicking him in the upper body. While this occurred, a man who had witnessed the incident from his car pulled up and asked if everything was okay, at which point the two men fled eastbound down the alley.

The victim returned home and eventually went to Illinois Masonic Hospital to be treated for a laceration on his bottom lip.

An elderly couple may have avoided a serious situation after letting two unknown men into their home.

On the afternoon of Jan. 5, a man came to a residence on the 2200 block of North Clybourn Avenue and told the owner that he needed to check the water pressure in the house because he and his father were doing rehab work on the neighboring homes on the street.

The man, 77, then let the unknown person — who was wearing a scarf and claimed to have a cold — into his home and they proceeded to run the water in kitchen sink. At this point, the stranger asked the man if there was anyone else in the house, to which he replied that his son was sleeping in the back bedroom. According to the couple, the man’s demeanor then changed.

Another man then entered the home and they spoke briefly to each other before quickly leaving.