Boy, 15, charged in Auburn Gresham armed robbery
The 15-year-old boy was charged with one felony count of armed robbery with a firearm.
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The 15-year-old boy was charged with one felony count of armed robbery with a firearm.
Police say in each of the robberies. a dark blue Land Rover Discovery with IL plate DJ87261 drove up to the victims, and two men exited the vehicle armed with a handgun.
He was last seen near a home in the 500 block of Silver Falls Street. Police searched the home but did not find the robber.
The robberies happened on Saturday, Aug. 11, one around 1:30 a.m. and two more just before midnight.
Police say in these incidents, one to three offenders armed with handguns approached victims on the street and announced a robbery.
The 13-year-old boy was arrested and charged with armed robbery and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon by a minor.
Police say the robbery happened in the 5700 block of West Augusta Boulevard on Aug. 3, just after 4 p.m.
During the robbery, one of the men smashed display cases and took unspecified property. A robber also demanded property from a woman in the store.
In each incident, the men targeted businesses where they displayed a gun and demanded access to the cash register and the safe.
Surveillance video shows the robber in different outfits. In one video, he goes behind a register and tries to open it.
Surveillance video shows him in different outfits, and in one video, he goes behind a register and tries to get it open.
Police said the 61-year-old man was walking near La Salle and Washington streets around 2:45 a.m., when four people got out of a dark car and attacked him.
The robberies happened in Brighton Park, Back of the Yard, Gage Park, Chicago Lawn, and Garfield Ridge neighborhoods.
Chicago police arrested the boys, both 16, and the men, Omareon Coleman and Samuel Gaines, both 19, around 9 p.m. in the 1300 block of West Montrose Avenue and the 4400 block of North Malden Avenue, respectively.
An employee of the business was leaving out the back door to the garbage area when an unknown male and female approached with a handgun.
Chicago police said the incident happened just before 2 a.m. in the 800 block of South State Street.
Tony Wilson, 18, was arrested just minutes after the robbery.
The robbery happened on June 28 around 1:20 p.m. in the 5000 block of South Evans Avenue.
Surveillance video captured the robbery as a woman approached the carrier before pointing and then flashing a weapon from her jacket's inside pocket. (Video credit: United States Postal Inspection Service)
An off-duty sheriff's deputy fatally shot a person during an armed robbery in northwest suburban Elgin on Monday.
Four times since late June, the robber has used a dating app to arrange meetings with his targets, and then robbed them at gunpoint.
Bennie Gates, 19, of Chicago, appeared in court Sunday morning. He was charged with one count of armed robbery with a firearm.
The victim was treated by Chicago fire crews at the scene but refused any further medical treatment.
Police arrested the robber a short distance away without incident and were still in possession of the victim's property.
Police said the suspect approached the victim at the 69th Street station platform and used a translator app to demand their belongings or they would be shot.
