Tavell Cobbins, of the 200 block of N. Lavergne, was arrested by Chicago police in connection with a nightclub shooting that happened around 2:30 a.m. January 29. According to witnesses, Cobbins and a friend were allegedly involved in a verbal argument with a Northern Illinois University student at a club on the 1400 block of N. Halsted Street.

The altercation continued outside, at which point Cobbins allegedly fired multiple shots into the air and one at the student, hitting him in the leg. The offenders then fled in a car but were apprehended in an alley a few minutes later by patrolling officers who identified them from an alert.

The student was transported Northwestern Memorial Hospital and treated for the gunshot wound. Cobbins, 25, was later charged with one count of aggravated battery with a firearm, one count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and one count of resisting a police officer.

Thousands of dollars worth of antique wrought-iron fencing was stolen from the Fourth Presbyterian Church last week. Over a hundred feet of the fence, valued at $10,000, was lifted from a parking lot next to a construction site where an addition was being built onto the church, located on the 100 block of East Chestnut Street.

According to the superintendent of the construction company working on the project, the incident occurred sometime between the early evening of Jan. 27 and morning of Jan. 28. Also taken from the site was 120 feet of chain link fence and $900 worth of structural steel owned by the company.

At around 3:00 p.m. on January 31, an undercover police officer walked into a cell phone store on the 100 block of West Division Street and told employee Ben Terrance that he was interested in selling a stolen iPhone for $100. “I just hit a dude over the head and took it,” the officer told him.

Terrance and another employee, Abed Reyiad, looked at the phone and Reyiad responded that he would buy it for $70, to which the officer agreed. The exchange was made and Reyiad stated that he was interested in buying more phones as long as the transaction was discrete. “Do what you do,” he said. Reyiad and Terrance were then arrested by the officer and placed into custody.

A man living on the 2100 block of North Clifton Avenue was taking out his trash on the evening of January 31 when two unknown suspects approached him and demanded that he hand over all his money. The man gave them $100 cash and his iPhone as well has some British currency, and the offenders, both believed to be in their twenties, fled in different directions. The victim told police that one of men displayed a silver handgun which he believed was a toy.

Two roommates living in a duplex on the 2300 block of North Greenview Ave. told police that their apartment had been broken into sometime during the day on January 31 and that more than $6,500 in personal items had been stolen, including a flat screen TV, a camera, various videogame consoles and a laptop computer.