Ex-Chicago Cop Gets Would-Be Carjacker
Ricky Fobbs is a Texas Marshal from Dallas and a retired Chicago police officer who worked in Streeterville. With 20 years on the force, the training kicked in.
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Ricky Fobbs is a Texas Marshal from Dallas and a retired Chicago police officer who worked in Streeterville. With 20 years on the force, the training kicked in.
So far there have been no arrests in the alleged attack.
The man ripped the teen out of the car which by then had crashed into a fence. He held the young man down, with the help of a few bystanders, until police arrived.
The former head of Chicago's police accountability agency says she is troubled by the latest reports of Chicago police officers being accused of robbing drug dealers.
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A Chicago church is looking toward a new beginning in a new part of the city's South Side after its old location burned down on Thanksgiving Day last year. Asal Rezaei reports.
No one was seriously hurt late Saturday after a car hit a CTA bus on Chicago's Near West Side
Two people were killed early Sunday when a car crashed into a support column under the Eisenhower Expressway.
No one was seriously hurt late Saturday after a car hit a CTA bus on Chicago's Near West Side.
A Chicago church is looking toward a new beginning in a new part of the city's South Side after its old location burned down on Thanksgiving Day last year.
Tamika Odeh, 44, is accused of putting an 8-year-old student in a chokehold at Parker Elementary School last year.
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