Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The man who called police on Daniel Vorberg, who was charged with public indecency after he was reported to have masturbated in his car near a Mount Greenwood school, speaks out about the incident.
The man who is the witness to a recent Mt. Greenwood crime wants to make sure people understand exactly what happened. He says that he and his fiance are the two witnesses to the alleged crimes of Daniel Vorberg, 30, the Oak Lawn man they say was masturbating in a car on the 11200 block of S. Spaulding Ave. just down the street from Cassell School in Mount Greenwood. On April 30, around 4 p.m., his fiance saw a car parked on the street on the side of their home, something seemed off. In front of the house around their porch was a group of about six kids, between six and nine years of age, he said. From their home his fiance says she saw Vorberg allegedly masturbating while pointing his phone at the group of children, he said. She called …
Thursday, February 7, 2013
The City Council's Public Safety Committee approved an ordinance that would level harsher punishments to those caught drinking within 800 feet of a parade route.
If organizers and local officials have their way, the days of the South Side Irish Parade crowd being viewed as a green-clad drunken horde are long gone. The City Council's Public Safety Committee unanimously voted Thursday morning to move forward an ordinance that would significantly increase the fines for those found to be drinking near parade routes anywhere in the city. Follow Beverly-Mt. Greenwood Patch on Facebook and sign up for Breaking News Alerts. The measure, sponsored by Ald. Matt O'Shea (19th), and worked on by the South Side Irish Parade Committee is viewed by its drafters as another tool to curtail drinking at the famed parade. "I want our community to know that we are doing everything possible to make sure it remains a …
Sunday, January 13, 2013
A two-car early morning accident on 115th Street left two people dead and one hospitalized, according to the Tribune.
Two people are dead and one hospitalized after an early morning car crash in Mount Greenwood, according to reports. Around 2:20 a.m. a car crossed the center lane and struck another vehilcle traveling in the opposite direction head-on in the 3400 block of 115th Street, the Chicago Tribune reports. The report states that two males were killed and a female was hospitalized in serious condition. Update, 6:50 p.m. - The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office has released the names of the two men killed in accident. They were Demetrius Caples, 28, of the 9200 block of South Vanderpoel Avenue, and Sean Larmon, 36, of the 10800 block of South Whipple Street. Read: 2 dead, 1 hurt after head-on crash on Far South Side Sign up for Beverly-Mt. …
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Friday, January 4, 2013
Kenneth Conley, 38, was arrested by Palos Hills police Friday afternoon. A police officer was injured during the incident and remains hospitalized.
Updated 8:39 p.m. A Palos Hills police lieutenant remains hospitalized after wrestling with a wanted man who escaped from a downtown Chicago correctional center in December. Kenneth Conley, 38, was arrested by officers from the Palos Hills Police Department Friday afternoon. Police say Conley was hiding out in the basement of an apartment building at 10279 86th Terrace. Conley and another man, Joseph "Jose" Banks, 37, are convicted bank robbers who authorities say managed to escape from the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Dec. 18. Banks was arrested Dec. 21 in Chicago by the FBI’s Violent Crimes Task Force and the Chicago Police Department. A lieutenant involved in investigating the apartment was injured in a struggle with Conley, …
Friday, December 21, 2012
Joseph 'Jose' Banks, who broke out of a downtown Chicago prison Tuesday and was sighted in Tinley Park and New Lenox, was captured by Chicago Police and the FBI on Thursday night.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Authorities captured late Thursday night one of the two convicted bank robbers who escaped from a downtown prison earlier this week, the FBI reports. Joseph "Jose" Banks, 37, was arrested at about 11:30 p.m. in the 2300 block of North Bosworth Street in Chicago by members of the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force and the Chicago Police Department, an FBI press release stated. Kenneth Conley, his cellmate and fellow escapee, is still at large, the release stated. Banks and Conley broke out of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago on Tuesday, Dec. 18. Authorities discovered a knotted rope or bedsheet dangling from a window high above the street. A manhunt for the two men led law enforcement agencies to Tinley Park, where …
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
An area resident has been charged with trying to abduct a child in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago.
An Oak Lawn man tried to grab an underage girl and pull her into his van last week, according to reports. David Brown, 60, of the 6400 block of W. 102nd Place, was charged with felony attempted kidnapping, according to Sun-Times Media. Police say Brown approached a girl in his van on the 1900 block of West 63rd Street, made a lewd gesture with his tongue and then tried to grab her, the report states. The girl freed herself and began to scream while Brown drove off. Police found a van matching the description several miles away and the victim identified Brown, the report says. Catch up on the week's crime blotter:
Monday, October 8, 2012
Two females were shot in the 9900 block of Vincennes. A short time later shots were exchanged between a suspect and an off-duty officer, police said.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Two females were shot in the 9900 block of Vincennes. A short time later shots were exchanged between a suspect and an off-duty officer, police said.
Two females were shot Sunday afternoon in the 9900 block of Vincennes, police said. The shooting occured at about 3:20 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli. The Chicago Tribune reports that a 13-year-old girl and a 44-year-old woman were inside of their car at a gas station when they were shot. An off-duty officer responded to the shooting and exchanged gun fire with a man on the 9800 block of Throop Street, Mirabelli said. The officer ordered the man to stop and he turned and began firing. That is when the off-duty officer began firing, Mirabelli said. Neither the officer or the suspect was hit, although the officer's vehicle was struck several times, Mirabelli said. The two victims were taken to Advocate …
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
The Blackhawks Alumni & Friends Charity Softball Classic takes place this Sunday at Saint Xavier University.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
A 28-year-old Chicago man has been charged with one count of armed bank robbery, and officials suspect he was responsible for at least eight other Chicago-area banks robberies.
A man suspected to be the serial bank robber dubbed the Swine Flu Bandit for wearing a white surgical mask while committing his crimes was charged with one count of armed bank robbery Thursday in U.S. District Court. Agents from the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force took Matthew D. Mahoney, 28, of Chicago, into custody Wednesday afternoon without incident, the FBI announced today in a press statement. Mahoney was charged in the Nov. 6 robbery of the Chase Bank branch at 550 S. Dearborn St. While Mahoney has been charged in only one robbery, officials said they believe he is responsible for robbing at least eight other Chicago-area banks, including a Chase Bank branch in Oak Lawn last week. According to a complaint filed Thursday in U.S. …
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Concerned Citizen
11:20 am on Tuesday, May 7, 2013
WHY-WHY, WAS THIS GUY STILL ON THE STREET???????? We are going to do everything we can to make sure that he doesn't get away with it," he said. He's alluding to the fact that in October 2009 Vorberg was charged with three felony counts of child abduction and disorderly conduct when he he allegedly attempted to lure three 11-year-old girls into his SUV. A first trial ended in a hung jury and a … more ›