Local Crime from 17th District 10-5-19
A WOMAN reported that she was robbed at knifepoint at about 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, in the 3100 block of West Montrose Avenue, according to 17th (Albany Park) District police.
The 48-year-old woman reported that she was securing her bicycle to a fence when an a woman approached, pointed a kitchen knife at her face and demanded her bicycle, and rode off on the bike and south through an alley and west on Cullom Avenue, according to police.
The woman was described as black, 5-3 to 5-5, 120 to 160 pounds, with short black hair, and wearing a black baseball cap, black shirt and faded blue jeans.
AN EMPLOYEE of the 7-Eleven store, 3401 W. Irving Park Road, reported that a shoplifter attempted to attack him at about 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 27, according to 17th (Albany Park) District police.
The employee reported that a woman entered and tried to steal beer and he confronted the woman who left the store, and later returned to the store to yell profanities and threw two rocks at him, missing him, before she rode a bicycle away south on Kimball Avenue, according to police.
The woman was described as black, age 20 to 23, about 5-6 and 150 pounds, and wearing a black baseball cap, a black tank top and light blue jeans.
A TEENAGER reported that he was attacked with an electroshock device at about 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, in the 3200 block of North Milwaukee Avenue, according to 17th (Albany Park) District police.
The 14-year-old male reported that he was walking with his girlfriend when four or five female teenagers emerged from a vehicle across the street, two of whom he recognized as high school classmates, and one of the females shocked him in the abdomen multiple times with the device before the group ran back to the vehicle, and he was later treated at AMITA Health Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, according to police.
