Two Charged With Robbing Merrillville Portillo's
Marcus Ervin, 42, and William Ward-Bey, 61, each faced armed robbery, robbery resulting in bodily injury and criminal confinement charges.
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Marcus Ervin, 42, and William Ward-Bey, 61, each faced armed robbery, robbery resulting in bodily injury and criminal confinement charges.
Parents in Wicker Park are on the alert and so are area police. Those parents are being targeted by thieves when they're picking up or dropping their kids off at school.
It was him or us. That's what a Chicago store owner is saying about shooting & killing a man he says was trying to rob his South Side business.
Police are searching for two men who pepper-sprayed a clerk while robbing a southwest suburban convenience store of more than $2,000 last week.
Charges are expected against two men - after three employees at a Merrillville Portillo's were tied up and the restaurant safe was robbed of $3500.
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