A man made off with an estimated $1,000 in Girl Scout cookie money on the evening of Feb. 26. The victim reporting the incident, a 45-year-old woman, told police that at around 5:00 p.m. the unknown suspect attempted to grab a box of money from a table on a sidewalk on the 400 block of W. Division Street. The woman said she was able to put her hand across the box, at which point the man flipped the table over and picked up between $800 and $1,000 in cash that had fallen to the floor, before fleeing.

A woman sitting on a CTA train had her iPad snatched from her on the afternoon of Feb. 23. The victim, 68, and a witness told police that at 12:35 p.m., a man believed to be 20 years old grabbed the computer, valued at $800, and ran out of the train while it was stopped at the Sedgwick El station.

Returning home from dinner on the evening of Feb. 24, a family discovered that over $15,000 in personal effects had been stolen from their residence on the 2100 block of N. Clifton Avenue. The father told police that among the lifted goods was a watch valued at $5,000 and a ring worth $3,000, as well as a camera, a pair of TVs and a computer. The victims said that the unknown offenders tracked dirt on the upstairs carpet.

A 70-year-old woman told police that while she was in a department store on the 900 block of N. Michigan Avenue on Feb. 26, a man knocked her over and took her wallet, containing $50 in cash and various IDs and credit cards. The incident, which was recorded by the store’s security cameras, occurred at 4:30 p.m.

A vehicular altercation on the 600 block of N. Wabash Avenue got ugly when Youssef Sanmi, a taxi driver, allegedly attacked a 23-year-old man with a screwdriver following a verbal argument on the afternoon of Feb. 23. After getting out of their cars following a traffic incident, the victim told police that Sanmi, 42, began yelling racial slurs and poking at the man’s chest with his finger.

Fearing a physical attack, he said, the man punched the driver in the nose with a closed fist, to which Sanmi responded by swinging a screwdriver and hitting him above the right ear, causing a puncture wound. A reporting police officer arrested Sanmi, and the victim was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital to be treated.

While taking a shower at his home on the 1500 block of N. Orleans Street on the morning of Feb. 22, a man heard noises coming from the other room which he believed were sounds being made by his girlfriend. But upon getting out, the victim saw that there was a man in his home. He asked the man, 51-year-old Charles Mitchell, what he was doing in his home, and the offender fled. Mitchell was later picked up by police and positively identified by the man.