Recent Posts in Robbery Category
Posted on Feb 24, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Local authorities worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to capture the man believed to be responsible for robbing ten banks in Chicago, Illinois. The young man was detained outside his ...
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Posted on Feb 17, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
One man tried desperately to escape U.S. Marshals that were trying to arrest him. He jumped out of a third-story window and instead of making a quick get-away, he was transported to a Chicago hospital ...
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Posted on Feb 3, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Chicago's head of police is trying to mitigate the press surrounding a very brutal and public beating that took place earlier this month. He claims that although the attack was undeniably brutal, ...
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Posted on Dec 23, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
It took Chicago police over one year to pin charges onto the man thought to have murdered another man in the city. The 24-year-old suspect now faces multiple charges that could land him decades behind ...
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Posted on Dec 16, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Police in Iowa caught a man that was wanted on multiple charges in Illinois last week. While it is uncertain why police first became interested in the 32-year-old Chicago man, it is known that he was ...
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Posted on Nov 11, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Although it took several weeks to gather enough evidence to bring him in, a man now faces multiple charges associated with the robbery of a bank in October. News sources report that the Federal Bureau ...
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Posted on Oct 8, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
What started as a simple fight between two men near Chicago turned into a robbery and police evasion. Officers in DeKalb, Illinois were called to the scene of a fight that was taking place in an ...
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Posted on Jul 8, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
While you may normally associate bank robbers as being men, police in Chicago were surprised to learn that the person behind a TCF bank robbery was a woman. Police reports show that the suspect, ...
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Posted on Mar 28, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Attorney
A man was arrested and charged in a recent attack on a victim in Chicago who was found bloodied and beaten while walking down the street. The victim was found wandering half-naked by another person ...
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Posted on Jan 18, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
21 year old Olubusayo Awomolo, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, was killed outside of his home in November. A month and a half later, police have arrested the man that they believe to ...
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Posted on Dec 30, 2010 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Police Officer David Blake was found shot to death in his SUV about a month ago. The teen who has been charged in his death, 18 year old Bernard Williams, was apparently planning on stealing his ...
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Posted on Nov 25, 2010 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
55 year old Bobby Butler was a career felon, having been arrested more than 20 times and having been convicted of 9 felonies . One of the felonies he was convicted of was robbery; others included drug ...
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Posted on Nov 18, 2010 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Two Wendy's employees have been convicted of battery and theft after robbing a patron of the Oak Park restaurant. Larry Mitchell, the victim, claims that he was eating and counting his money when he ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2010 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Both the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Naperville Police are searching for a bank robber. The FBI is involved because bank robbery is a federal felony . The suspect is described as a ...
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Posted on Nov 9, 2010 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Kawanis Trotter, who is now 16, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for a crime that he committed when he was 14. He was charged with felony murder , felony armed robbery and armed burglary . Two ...
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Posted on Sep 21, 2010 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Two Chicago police officers, Adrian Avarro and Erik Escalante, were patrolling a neighborhood on bicycles when they saw a middle aged woman yelling that her phone had been stolen. The 56 year old told ...
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