No Bail For 4 Suspects In Facebook Torture Video
A Cook County judge denied bail Friday to two men and two women accused of kidnapping a teenager with special needs, torturing him, and sharing live video of the attack on Facebook.
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A Cook County judge denied bail Friday to two men and two women accused of kidnapping a teenager with special needs, torturing him, and sharing live video of the attack on Facebook.
Edward Malone, 23, was arrested at 3:43 p.m. Thursday at his workplace in the 0-100 block of West Wacker, according to Chicago Police.
Two men and two women have been charged with a hate crime, after allegedly kidnapping an 18-year-old man with special needs, torturing him, and posting videos of the torture online.
Anyone with information about the robbers is asked to contact the Schaumburg Police Investigations Bureau at (847) 882-3586.
Two mail carriers have been robbed in the last two days on the South Side.
A 71-year-old woman and her son were beaten and robbed after returning to west suburban Brookfield early Monday after a trip to a casino in northwest Indiana.
A mail carrier was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday afternoon in the South Shore neighborhood.
There was a terrifying home invasion in the Bucktown neighborhood over the weekend.
Multiple people who tried to buy video game systems have been robbed in the last week in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
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Police are searching for a man who robbed a Subway restaurant at gunpoint in Oak Lawn on Tuesday night.
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A 26-year-old man was charged early Sunday in the home invasion of a 94-year-old U.S. Navy veteran Wednesday morning in her Garfield Ridge neighborhood home.
A man was shot in the foot when he tried to bat away a robber's gun early Saturday in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side.
A man was ordered at gunpoint into a car, then driven to an ATM where he was forced to withdraw money and give it to his assailants Monday night in northwest suburban Buffalo Grove.
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