On the afternoon of November 21, a 79-year-old woman was sitting on the couch at her home on the 2300 block of N. Bosworth when two men kicked in her door and entered the house. The men immediately started looking in the bedrooms and soon found $1,000 under a carpet. The men took the money and left. The woman later told police that there was “not much conversation” between her and the offenders that she could remember. The woman’s daughter noted that a camera had been installed in the mailbox by the landlord after a similar incident had occurred in the building.

Walking on the 100 block of W. Oak at around 5 p.m. on November 13, a 19-year-old woman became aware that there was a man walking behind her who was speaking strangely. Because she was wearing a leg brace, the woman, a Moody Bible Institute student, was unable to out walk the man and he came up and grabbed her by the arm. The woman later told police that she didn’t think the man wanted money, but she took $15 out of her pocket and offered it to him. The man, who was believed to be in his mid-twenties, then took out a small pocket knife and began waving it in the air. As she struggled to break free, the knife came down and scrapped her forearm, leaving a 3-inch red mark. When he realized what had happened, the man let the victim go and ran away. The woman then went home and contacted school security, who alerted police. She later declined medical treatment for the scratch on her arm.

Three men who all have offices in the same building on the 2300 block of N. Clark reported that someone had broken in and gone through their things over the weekend of November 19. Two of the men told police that their doors had been pried open and their cabinets had been rifled through, and the third man, who owns the building, reported that he found his office in a similar state, adding that a liquor cabinet had been opened. Police suspect that the offender may have gained access through a rear door in the alley.

A 73-year old woman living on the 1300 block of N. Astor fell prey to a game of deceptive fraud. The victim was contacted by a woman claiming to be from Chase Bank’s “Deceptive Fraud Protection” division who told her that she was investigating a case of a check written without consent. To rectify the situation, the woman explained, the victim would have to take out $6,000 in cash from two separate Chase locations, put the money in an envelope and leave it at the front desk of her home with instructions to have it be picked up by a “Mr. Davis.” The victim complied, and an unknown male suspect came by later and retrieved the envelope, which contained $12,000. The incident occurred on the afternoon of November 18.

A woman returned to her home on the 2200 block of N. Cleveland on the morning of November 21 to find that her Apple laptop was missing from the kitchen table. Upon inspecting the house, she found that her bathroom window was open and that her bathroom products were outside on the windowsill and on the ground. Police concluded that the suspect had scaled the 15-foot wall below the window to gain entry into the house. The woman’s computer was valued at $1,800.