Home invaders hold resident at gunpoint in Winnetka
Robbers invaded a home and held the resident at gunpoint this past weekend in the north Chicago suburb of Winnetka.
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Robbers invaded a home and held the resident at gunpoint this past weekend in the north Chicago suburb of Winnetka.
Police said the five robbers invaded a home after one of them posed as a food delivery driver carrying a brown takeout bag from Outback Steakhouse to get in.
Robbers posed as food delivery drivers to invade a home and then held the resident at gunpoint this past weekend in the north Chicago suburb of Winnetka.
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A south suburban Chicago man stood charged Monday with shooting a man and beating a woman in the city's Englewood neighborhood this past weekend.
A south suburban Chicago man stood charged Monday with shooting a man and beating a woman in the city’s Englewood neighborhood this past weekend.
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Investigators believe the same crew is behind a pair of armed home invasions in recent days targeting women pulling into their driveways before forcing their way into their homes in Chicago's southwest suburbs.
Chicago police said they've arrested 46-year-old Keith Finley in connection to the Oct. 14 armed home invasion on the city's West Side.
Keith Finley, 46, was arrested on Friday and charged with felony counts of home invasion with a firearm, home invasion causing injury, and aggravated criminal sexual assault.
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The woman told police she was able to force the man out of her home.
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