Crime & Safety

Cell Phone Store Robbed At Gunpoint - UPDATED

Robbers made employees lay on floor while fleeing with unknown amount of cash, police say.

 

Oak Lawn police are searching for two men that robbed a cell phone store on Tuesday evening.

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A police press release said that two male blacks entered the T-Mobile Store at 10312 S. Cicero Ave. around 6:35 p.m., pointing handguns at two employees. The robbers took cash and made the employees lie on the floor before fleeing the store. No one was injured the robbery.

Police K-9s tracked the offenders’ scent to a parking lot at 103rd Street and Lacrosse Avenue. The scent ended in the parking lot, where police believe the robbers may have fled in a getaway vehicle.

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The first robbery suspect is described as 35 years old, six-foot-one, and wearing a multi-colored baseball cap and brown jacket.

Surveillance images of robbery suspects added.

The second robbery suspect is also in his mid-thirties, six-foot-two, and wearing a “New York” baseball cap, dark jacket, orange shirt, black jeans, and a white gym shoes with a dark stripe.

If anyone witnessed this crime or has information, please call the Oak Lawn police at 708-422-8292.


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