Local Crime from 17th District 11-10-18
A WOMAN was shot at about 7:40 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6, in the 3300 block of North Keystone Avenue, according to 17th (Albany Park) District police.
A 33-year-old man reported that he was with a 29-year-old woman when they heard gunshots and she was hit in the lower right leg, and that he drove her to Swedish Covenant Hospital where she was treated in stable condition, according to police.
A MAN WAS shot at about 2:40 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, in the 4000 block of West School Street, according to 17th (Albany Park) District police.
A 26-year-old man reported that he was walking to his mother’s house when two men in hooded sweatshirts started shooting at him and he and his 48-year-old mother ran away east on School Street when he discovered he was shot, according to police. The man reported that a family member then drove him to Community First Medical Center in serious condition, according to police.
A MAN REPORTED that armed men chased him in their cars at about 5:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, to the 4100 block of West Cornelia Avenue, according to 17th (Albany Park) District police.
The 26-year-old man reported that he was at a gas station on Milwaukee Avenue when two men in black and white hooded sweatshirts approached him, and that he saw a black handgun in one man’s left pocket and he drove away and noticed that a black GMC and a black Cadillac sport utility vehicle were following him from the gas station, according to police.
The man reported that the vehicles chased him to the 4100 block of West Cornelia Avenue where he crashed into a parked car and ran away on foot and the men did not follow him, police said.
A witness reported that he saw the two men entering the man’s crashed vehicle, and the man reported that he discovered that his cell phone and wallet containing his driver’s license and three bank cards missing from his vehicle, according to police.
A WOMAN reported that her car was damaged by bullets at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, in the 4800 block of North Drake Avenue, according to 17th (Albany Park) District police.
The 29-year-old woman reported that she was driving north and stopped at an intersection when a man approached her vehicle, raised a black firearm and began firing at her car, striking the driver’s side door, and she then sped away east on Ainslie Street, according to police. Officer recovered four spent bullet casings on scene, police said.
The man was described as white/Hispanic, age 38 to 40, and approximately 5-9 and 165 pounds.
A MAN REPORTED that he was robbed at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, at the Sacramento Play Lot, 3510 N. Sacramento Ave., according to 17th (Albany Park) District police.
The 29-year-old man reported that he was jogging in the park when two men approached and asked him to look up something on his cell phone, and that they cornered him into a fence and demanded his iPhone valued at $750, which he handed to the men who then fled north toward Addison Street, according to police.
The men were both described as black with medium brown complexions, age 18 to 20, 5-7 to 5-9 and 160 to 170 pounds, and brown eyed. One man was further described as having braided black hair and wearing a red Chicago Bulls jacket and blue jeans, and the other as having short black hair and wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt.
A WOMAN reported that her apartment in the 3300 block of North Monticello Avenue was burglarized between 8:10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6, according to 17th (Albany Park) District police.
The woman reported that when she returned home she discovered that the apartment lights were on and that the rear door was unlocked and a rear window had been opened and that a Macbook laptop computer valued at $3,000, two necklaces valued at $300, a watch valued at $200 and $150 worth of other miscellaneous jewelry were missing, according to police.
A MAN REPORTED that his apartment in the 4800 block of North Kimball Avenue was burglarized between 1 and 6 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6, according to 17th (Albany Park) District police.
The man reported that when he woke up he discovered that a rear door and rear window had been opened and various porch objects were moved, and that a laptop computer, a brown coat and a pair of boots were missing, according to police.
LINCOLNWOOD
A MAN WAS arrested on drug charges following a traffic incident at about midnight Saturday, Nov. 3, in the 7100 block of North Hamlin Avenue, according to Lincolnwood police.
Officers saw a male driver who was asleep while his minivan was on in the intersection of Touhy and Hamlin avenues, and upon waking him up officers found at least three bags containing 1.72 grams of a white and brown powdery substance suspected of being heroin, and the man was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of drugs, possession of a controlled substance and parking within a crosswalk intersection, according to police.
The suspect was identified by police as Thomas Liberopoulos, age 37, of the 200 block of North Wolf Road, Wheeling.
AN EMPLOYEE of the Mobil Gas station, 7169 N. Crawford Ave., reported that the business was burglarized between 10 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, and 5:50 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6, according to Lincolnwood police.
The man reported that when he returned to work he discovered that a window was broken and that a display case containing $4,166 worth of lottery tickets was missing, according to police.