Paramedics assaulted in Near North

05/25/2011

Jonathan C. Soto, of Bartlett, Ill., was arrested after he attacked two Chicago Fire Department paramedics who attempted to treat him early the morning of May 21
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Brick brawl injures woman

05/18/2011

An elderly woman was among the victims of a brawl that broke out in the 1600 block of North Orchard Street the night of May 10. Witnesses told police that, at around 10:30 p.m., approximately 20 individuals engaged in a fight behind an apartment complex on the street. Over the course of the mêlée, offenders reportedly pulled decorative garden bricks from a neighboring yard and began hurling the stones at each other.
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Lincoln Avenue robbers nabbed

05/11/2011

Chicago police arrested Adrian Villela, 26, and Francisco Carmona, 26, as suspects in an armed robbery case that took place in the Lincoln Park area on May 7. A 24-year-old woman told officers that as she was walking in the 1900 block of North Lincoln Avenue just after midnight on May 7, two men later identified as Villela and Carmona approached her, produced a handgun and demanded that she hand over her property.
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'Police fighter' with a gun

05/04/2011

Howard E. Dibbern, of the 600 block of N. River Road in McHenry, Illinois, was arrested for unlawful possession of a handgun after being apprehended by police on a parole violation warrant on April 28.
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River North murder-suicide

04/27/2011

Police believe that a 63-year-old River North man fatally shot his estranged wife before taking his own life on the evening of April 23. At around 6:45 p.m., officers responding to a call of shots fired at an apartment home in the 500 block of West Superior Street arrived to find Josephine Martinez bleeding from a gunshot wound on the floor outside the unit.
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Burglary spree in West Lincoln Park

04/20/2011

Police recorded a number of seemingly linked home break-ins in the West Lincoln Park area last week. On the morning of April 18, police responding to a burglar alarm call at a building in the 1600 block of North Dayton Street found that the second floor rear door of the unit had been kicked in.
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Apartment robbery set-up

04/13/2011

At around 2:30 a.m. on April 8, three unknown suspects, armed with handguns and brass knuckles, entered an apartment building on the 1200 block of North La Salle Boulevard and held the occupants — five men and a woman — at gun point while they looted the home.
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Thirty-seven bags of crack

04/06/2011

Police arrested Dennis Djirackor of the 1600 block of West Greenleaf Avenue the afternoon of April 2 for possession of crack cocaine, among other charges. Djirackor, 31, was parked at a bus stop on the 300 block of West Chicago Avenue when two officers on bicycles approached the car to ask why he had stopped at that location.
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Rowdy teen tries to grab guard's gun

03/30/2011

A security guard on shift at a McDonald’s found himself in a tight situation when he was tasked with dispersing a mob of teenagers at the restaurant.
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Acrobatic gutter thief gets away

03/23/2011

While following up on a call at a church on the 1500 block of North Astor Street around midnight March 22, a police officer noticed a suspicious car in the alleyway next to the building. When the officer went to check the car, he found that a man was hanging from a downspout gutter attached to the church.
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