Delivery driver recovering from injuries after being shot, wounded in robbery
Mario Ruiz Jr. was shot by an armed robber while trying to deliver a pizza in the Humboldt Park neighborhood last month. CBS 2's Charlie De Mar reports.
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Mario Ruiz Jr. was shot by an armed robber while trying to deliver a pizza in the Humboldt Park neighborhood last month. CBS 2's Charlie De Mar reports.
The latest robbery happened at 2:32 p.m. Monday, March 20, in the alley behind 6400 block of North Hoyne Avenue in West Rogers Park.
Police said the man was walking toward his car when two men with guns came up and demanded his belongings.
The victims were able to give police a license plate number, adding there may have been a fourth person in the Jeep who didn't get out.
The Vehicular Hijacking Task Force arrested the 15-year-old on Wednesday, in the 3100 block of West Harrison Street.
Police arrested two men responsible for a string of armed robberies, and a crash involving an unmarked Chicago police vehicle.
The robberies happened within two hours in the Brighton Park and Back of the Yards neighborhoods.
Park Ridge and Des Plaines police are searching for the suspects who robbed victims outside a Mariano's and Rivers Casino Friday evening.
In one case, four men were walking near Peoria and Fulton when two men jumped out of a red SUV armed with handguns and demanded their belongings.
The robbers took the men's cellphones and wallets and left. No one was injured.
The suspects took the victim's cell phone, laptop, and backpack.
Police say the teen, just minutes earlier, robbed a 15-year-old girl and attempted to rob a 56-year-old woman on the same block.
There were three incidents in just over an hour Wednesday afternoon.
Detectives say a 25-year-old man was walking on McLean near Damen at 1 a.m. when a white Mazda SUV pulled up.
Detectives say a 25-year-old man was walking on McLean near Damen at 1 a.m. when a white Mazda SUV pulled up.
The robberies happened in the Logan Square, Little Village, Heart of Chicago. and Brighton Park neighborhoods during the early morning hours.
Chicago Police are looking into four armed robberies on the Near North Side and in Streeterville. Police say two to four people with guns go up to victims on the street and rob them before running off and getting into a red SUV.'
Police say the robbers fled the Orland Park area after taking an unknown amount of money.
A 17-year-old boy is facing multiple charges after robbing three men at gunpoint back in January on the city's Far North Side.
The robberies happened between the hours of 5:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. in West Town and Near West Side neighborhoods.
Three teenage boys are charged and charged after three armed robberies in Humboldt Park.
The Vehicular Hijacking Task Force arrested a 13-year-old boy in connection to an armed robbery in Humboldt Park in January.
Police say the incidents go as far back as October.
Police say he was identified as the person who robbed a 31-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman, in the 4100 block of West North Avenue on Jan. 28.
The Vehicular Hijacking Taskforce arrested Kentreall Allen, 31, on Tuesday, in the 2300 block of W. 81st Place.
