Police were on the lookout for a boy suspected in a string of robberies committed in Lincoln Park over the past week.

At around 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 23, an unknown male suspect broke into a car parked on the 2200 block of North Clybourn Street and stole a black backpack from the vehicle. Witnesses gave chase and retrieved the bag from the offender, who was described as a black male, believed to be in his teens. At the time, the suspect had braided hair and was wearing a blue and white sweatshirt and a wool knitted hat. He was seen running eastbound on Webster from Clybourn.

A few minutes later, another theft was reported at Starbucks at 1245 W. Fullerton Ave., a couple blocks north from the previous incident. According to the police report for the incident, a 15-year-old male wearing a blue and white sweatshirt with dreadlocks allegedly stole an unidentified item from the business.

A cabbie found himself on the wrong side of a traffic argument on the Near North Side on the afternoon of Oct. 20. At around 12 p.m. that day, a driver from the American United Cab company told police that he was making a right turn onto Illinois Street from Kingsbury Street when the driver behind him began beeping his horn.

Upon pulling into a nearby driveway, he noticed that the vehilce, a black Subaru, had also pulled over on Illinois. A man wearing a leather jacket, believed to be in his late 20s, exited the car and approached the driver, cursing and threatening him with physical violence. The cabbie, 41, prodded the man to attack him, at which point the man produced a can of what looked like pepper spray and proceeded to spray the driver in the eyes. The offender then fled eastbound on Illinois.

The cab driver later told police that chemical spray made his face and hands turn green.

The general manager of Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab, at 60 E. Grand Ave., told police that an unknown offender stole a bag of frozen crab from the establishment on the morning of Oct. 20.

According to the manager, a man wearing a light blue polo shirt entered the delivery area of the building at around 7:30 a.m. and proceeded to remove a case of Florida stone crab from the freezer. The offender then emptied the contents of the case into a blue laundry bag and fled the restaurant in an unknown direction. The quantity of crab was valued at $703.50.

Police arrested Jesse L. Lofton, of the 3700 block of West Cermak Road, on suspicion of public indecency following an incident at a public park on Oct. 21.

A woman told police that as she was walking through the pedestrian tunnel at Oak Street Beach at around 5:30 p.m. on that day, she witnessed a man wearing a parka coat and a black hat masturbating near the public bathrooms. The witness alerted police. Upon arriving at the scene, officers arrested Lofton, 35, after they found him with his genitals exposed and matching a description of the offender.

Upon returning home from a concert at DePaul University at around 12:20 a.m. on Oct. 22, three housemates found that their apartment on the 2200 block of North Halsted had been burglarized.

According to the women, the offenders took a Canon camera, a Dell laptop and two iPod Touches. The victims said all of the items had been removed from the living room and kitchen areas, except for the camera, which was taken from a bedroom.

At 4 a.m. on Oct. 24, a group of thieves broke into Jan Dee Custom Jewelry at 1425 W. Diversey Pkwy. and stole a haul of jewelry estimated to be worth $40,000.

Witnesses said that between three and five men were seen fleeing eastbound from the store in a black vehicle that was parked on a side street. The burglars were said to have been inside the building for approximately three minutes.