Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Robbers confront woman in shopping center parking lot, then marched her over to Walgreen's where they made her withdraw $500, cops say.
A 38-year-old woman filed a delayed police report after being confronted by three robbers in a parking lot who forced her to withdraw money from an ATM, reports said. Oak Lawn police are investigating a robbery that occurred around 2 p.m. May 6, where a woman says the robbers confronted her in a shopping center parking lot at 8700 S. Cicero Ave. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and follow us on Facebook. The woman said she had just finished shopping and was walking back to her car when two men and a woman in their late twenties approached her. One of the men ran in front of her and stopped in front of a dark colored car. Soon after, she heard the female robbery suspect calling her to say she dropped something. Looking to see what …
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Cops say muggers were after 29-year-old man's backpack.
A 29-year-old man was jumped while walking home from work near Marion Avenue and 97th Street, reports said. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and follow us on Facebook. Oak Lawn police said the man noticed two young males in the alley between Ridgeland and Marion as he walked home around 11:37 p.m. March 15. As he continued walking, he felt someone try to pull off his backpack. The man heard one of the young males said, “come here, motherf---er. “ When the man spun around, he recognized the would-be mugger from the alley, a male white in his early twenties wearing a gray hoody, black skull cap and black pants. The mugger’s pal, a male black with very short hair, also in his early twenties, stood to the side laughing, police said. …
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W 97th St & Marion Ave, Oak Lawn, IL
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Sunday, December 23, 2012
Reginald Taylor, 47, of Chicago has pleaded not guilty to felony charges in two separate armed robbery cases and was given a $500,000 bond.
A Chicago man charged with robbing at least two area Radio Shack stores has pleaded not guilty. Reginald Taylor, 47, was apprehended in Oak Lawn after holding police at bay with a handgun was charged with robbing the Frankfort Radio Shack. He had already faced robbery charges in connection with a Nov. 7 stickup at the Radio Shack on Harlem Avenue in Palos Heights. Taylor has two cases with several felony charges, including armed robbery, being an armed habitual criminal possession/use of a weapon by a felon, aggravated robbery and aggravated unlawful restraint. Cook County Judge John J. Hynes issued a $500,000 bond in the new cases when Taylor appeared in court on Thursday, Dec. 19. Taylor's most recent arrest was in violation of parole…
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
The same Chicago man allegedly robbed two different Radio Shacks in a week before holding police at bay during an hour-long standoff.
An ex-con apprehended in Oak Lawn after holding police at bay with a handgun was charged with robbing the Frankfort Radio Shack. Reginald Taylor, 47, of 7121 S. Harvard Ave. in Chicago already faced robbery charges in connection with a Nov. 7 stickup at the Radio Shack on Harlem Avenue in Palos Heights. In that robbery, Taylor allegedly waited for customers to leave the Palos Heights Radio Shack and locked the store's front door. He then reportedly brandished a handgun, demanded cash and absconded with what employees gave up. Taylor headed from Palos Heights to Oak Lawn, where he went into another Radio Shack, police said. An employee of that store recognized Taylor and somebody called the cops. Taylor fled but officers cornered him in the…
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Village officials say robbery suspect is cornered in a stairwell with a gun in his mouth on 96th Street between Cicero Avenue and Lacross Avenue. Heavy police and fire presence.
Updated at 4:50 p.m. Oak Lawn Police Department Division Chief Michael Kaufmann said the suspect surrendered peacefully. Updated at 4:34 p.m. A neighbor on 96th Street said the gunman kicked in the door of a nearby home and ran into the basement stairwell, where he was threatening police and himself. Officials said the man had a gun in his mouth. Law enforcement officers had cordoned off a 3-block area around the brick bungalow that the suspected robber entered and brought police dogs into the house, the neighbor said. Police were then able to safely detain him. Neighbors said they saw police escorting him out around 4 p.m. Updated 4:23 p.m. A member of the SWAT team told Oak Lawn Patch that they have the suspected gunman in custody. …
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Oak Lawn police reports Sept. 5-6.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6 A 37-year-old man was walking home from the liquor store around 8:30 p.m. when two men near 107th Street and Komensky Avenue confronted him. One of the robbers said, “Hey, dude, we’re taking your beer.” The man put the beer on the sidewalk. As the robber knelt down to pick up the beer, police said the man punched him in the side of his face, knocking him to the ground. The would-be robber immediately got up and fled southbound with his buddy down Komensky. The man did not have his cell phone so he ran home to call 911. Fortunately, the robbers, described as males in their early 20s, did not steal the beer. WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 5 Someone tried to force their way into an apartment in the 10000 block of South Mayfield …
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4000 W 107th St, Oak Lawn, IL
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10000 Mayfield Ave, Oak Lawn, IL
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wallet turns up missing after woman said she had wrong room and left, cops say.
A woman barged into the hotel room of two Italian businessmen claiming they had “called her” and may have stolen a wallet off their dresser, reports said. The men had returned to their room at the Hilton Oak Lawn at 9333 S. Cicero Ave. around 5:20 p.m. August 20. Both lay down after work to take a nap when they heard a knock on the door. Subscribe to the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. One of the men answered the door and said a tall, black woman was standing outside in the hall. Oak Lawn police said the woman pushed her way into the room, saying, “You called me. What can I do for you?” The man told the woman to leave and woke up his coworker for assistance. Police said the woman pushed herself further into the room by …
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9333 S Cicero Ave, Oak Lawn, IL
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Friday, June 15, 2012
Plucky elderly woman able to get last four numbers of alleged robber's license plate; Evergreen Park police apprehend man on dead end street, Oak Lawn cops say.
Oak Lawn and Evergreen Park police apprehended a North Side man after he snatched a 73-year-old woman’s purse, reports said. Subscribe to the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Kevin L. Walker, 44, of the 2600 block of North Sheffield Avenue in Chicago, was charged with felony theft on June 7. The elderly woman was walking home from the supermarket on the 10300 block of South Pulaski Road shortly after 1 p.m. Out of no where, police said, a man identified as Walker grabbed her large multi-colored bag from her hand. An employee returning to her job witnessed the alleged robbery and ran into her workplace to call 911. The employee told Oak Lawn police that a baldheaded man identified as Walker circled the parking lot in a …
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10300 S Pulaski Rd, Oak Lawn, IL
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Saturday, June 2, 2012
A police perimeter has been set up around a Bank of America branch in Oak Lawn, where police said a robbery occurred this afternoon.
Updated 8:37 p.m. FBI and South Suburban Crime Reponse are searching the air conditioning ducts because blood was found earlier in the upstairs, Oak Lawn Division Chief Kaufmann said. Police are using remote control cameras to search inside the ducts. Two teams are searching; one FBI and one South Suburban Crime Response are doing the search. "They are still methodically looking, it's going to take time," Kaufmann said. Reports that police heard barricading are inaccurate. Kaufmann also would not confirm if the robber was armed with a TEC 9 gun. He said the robber was armed with an automatic handgun. Updated 8:04 p.m. Another updated from Oak Lawn Division Chief Kaufmann. Police are searching the ceiling area of the upstairs offices of the…
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W 111th St & S Pulaski Rd, Oak Lawn, IL
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Police say 87-year-old woman's shoulder was dislocated when she was knocked to ground by the mugger.
An elderly woman was injured after being mugged for her rosary and some change during a purse snatching on March 30. Oak Lawn police received a call of an 87-year-old woman lying on the ground on near 97th Street and Keeler Avenue and a man running from the scene around 3:25 p.m. Police found her standing up near her car with asphalt in her hair. Sign up to receive the O-L Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. The woman said she was preparing to unload groceries from her car trunk when a man suddenly snatched her purse from her hand, causing her to fall to the ground. Police said the elderly woman wasn’t able to give much of a description because the mugger approached her from behind and it happened too fast. The woman was scraped up …
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W 97th St & S Keeler Ave, Oak Lawn, IL
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Don Hall
1:53 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013
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