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Posts Tagged ‘chicago crime’
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Sometimes a robber chooses the wrong victim and everything backfires. This was the case with a robbery in downtown Chicago last Friday.
A 50-year-old woman chased her robber for almost a mile, cornered him in an alley and then gave him a lecture. She must be in awesome shape.
The woman was riding a Chicago Transit Authority bus in the Loop just after midnight when police said Jenar Sanders, 18, swiped her wallet from her purse. He then jumped off the bus at Huron and State streets and took off, but he wouldn’t get very far.
Trailing Sanders, the woman alerted others as she ran down the street, according to the Chicago Tribune. The CTA bus driver and a hotel staff member at the Omni Hotel called the police.
The race came to a quick halt when police said Sanders ended up cornered in an alley off Superior Street between Wabash Avenue and Rush Street, surrounded by the victim and others who had joined the chase.
“She kept telling him God didn’t want him to steal her wallet,” a police source told the Tribune. (more…)
Tags: catch a thief, chicago crime, Robbery
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Attorneys for the plaintiff, Thaddeus “T.J.” Jimenez, say they believe the award made Tuesday is the largest ever by a U.S. jury in a wrongful conviction case.
“Sometimes the criminal justice system makes a mistake,” said Jon Loevy, one of Jimenez’s attorneys. “In this case, we proved that’s exactly what happened.”
Indeed the criminal justice system does make mistakes. Many people are behind bars for crimes they did not commit. I just watched a program where an imprisoned man could not get help through the regular channels. He hired a private investigator who eventually dug up the truth, which turned out to be a cover-up. The man was given another trial and he was found not guilty. He had spent about 20 years in prison.
Most wrongfully convicted people are not fortunate enough to be exonerated, let alone receive the type of reward Mr. Jimenez received. Of course, you can’t put a price tag on someone’s life. You can never give back what that person lost.
The jury, after sitting through a two-week trial at the Dirksen Federal Building, deliberated for about a day. Given how quickly the jury deliberated, the evidence must have been overwhelmingly in Jimenez’s favor. (more…)
Tags: chicago crime, investigation, murder, police, wrongful conviction
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Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Good luck quickly changed to bad luck for a Chicago man yesterday. He was lucky enough to win $10,000 and then very unlucky to have lost the money in a flash. This 62-year-old Chicago man was robbed of more than $10,000 he had won at a casino less than a half hour earlier.
Chicago police are investigating a report from a 62-year-old Chinese immigrant that two men robbed him overnight of more than $10,000 he won at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Ind.
Police and fire paramedics responded to a call of an armed robbery in the 2200 block of South Princeton Avenue just after 2:15 a.m. There they found the victim with a bleeding cut on his forehead, police said.
The victim told police the attack happened as he returned home from a trip to the Hammond casino, where he won more than $10,000 in cash and casino chips, according to police and his son.
Mr. Chan only had to walk 20 steps from his car to his front door. As he walked to the front door of his Chinatown apartment, the victim said he saw two young men running toward him. The victim wasn’t able to get inside fast enough and was attacked by the two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, said police and the victim’s son, William Chan. (more…)
Tags: chicago crime, Chicago Police Department, Robbery, video surveillance
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
Long a city with a reputation for withholding information, Chicago now wants to make public every crime over the past 10 years — a highly unusual move among the nation’s major police departments.
Millions of crime statistics dating to 2001 will be posted online in a searchable database, slated for a Wednesday launch, although a police press official told msnbc.com that could be delayed. It will be updated daily, providing fodder for residents to evaluate their own neighborhoods, academics to study crime and techie types to create websites or apps.
The release is the latest attempt by the administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who took office in May, to make city dealings more open and counter Chicago’s reputation for entrenched systemic corruption and backroom deals. Chicago officials recently posted online the salaries of city employees, city contracts and lobbying data, with more information expected in coming months.
“It’s a whole new era of openness and transparency,” said Brett Goldstein, the city’s chief data officer and former police officer. “You determine your own analysis.” (more…)
Tags: chicago crime, Chicago Police Department
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Friday, September 9th, 2011
SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE September 3, 2011 10:36AM
A reporter posted a story in the Chicago Sun Times on September 3, 2011 about a northwest suburban man that was charged with placing a video camera inside a pen (pen camera) and taping three girls inside their dorm room earlier this year without their knowledge at University of Illinois at Chicago, police said.
According to police, John Holliday, age 19, was charged with a felony count of unauthorized videotaping and two misdemeanor counts of placing a video device in a residence.
Holliday was arrested Friday after it was discovered that he allegedly videotaped three victims inside their U of I at Chicago dorm rooms without their knowledge or consent, according to a police report.
Holliday allegedly admitted to the recordings. He said he used a camera that was hidden inside a pen and purposely left the camera turned on inside the victim’s dorm rooms, the report stated.
The alleged crimes took place on May 3, 2011 for two of the victims and Jan. 27, 2011 for the third victim.
Although pens with hidden video cameras are available for purchase on the market, actually trying to install a camera in a pen requires sophisticated technology skills – not something your average person is capable of doing. The technology required to get a camera inside a pen is high as are the equipment costs. It is very likely that the pen with a hidden camera used in this incident was purchased and not built or assembled by the man charged with this crime.
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Tags: cameras, chicago crime, hidden camera, invasion of privacy, spying, wireless cameras
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
A woman who had nothing but love for the homeless was killed at the Fullerton L stop a few days ago. The incident occurred after a thief stole an iPhone off another passenger; during the getaway, the robbery became much more serious: He pushed a Sally Katona-King, age 68, back down the stairs leading to the platform. At the time of this writing, he’s still on the run.
It’s a tragic event.
But technology may aid Chicago police in their manhunt, one expert at MSI Detective Services in Chicago says.
Police have released a sketch of the suspect they’re seeking, but detectives are not talking about exactly what steps they’re taking to find him. The suspect stole an iPhone at the Fullerton station March 28, then pushed Sally Katona-King down a flight of stairs as he fled the scene.
King, an advocate for the homeless, was buried last week.
A private eye at MSI Detective Services believes police must be making a serious effort to track the stolen iPhone. The devices are not just phones, they’re also mini-computers with individual identities and tracking systems.
“There’s something called the IMEI number that’s sort of like the serial number of the phone, so even if the SIM card or something like that has been changed, it’s still trackable,” private investigator Theresa Cheriachangel told CBS 2’s Mike Parker.
Andrew Holmes, a community activist who’s helped put together $1,000 reward for the arrest of the killer, was passing out flyers at the L station this week. He was telling cta riders who may have been victims of theft on the trains in the past to tell police about it.
Tags: cell phone, chicago, chicago crime, Chicago Police Department, chicago video security, crime, criminal, murderer, spying, theft investigations, U-Spy, U-Spy Store
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Sunday, March 13th, 2011
We just finished with a bad winter and saw plenty of snow. Hopefully it will be the last of until the end of the year. In the mean time, I was hoping to prevent a different type of snow job from occurring to our customers and followers.
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Monday, February 28th, 2011
Electronic pickpocketing isn’t newest technology out there, but it’s been exploited as possibly the easiest method for criminals to snatch your information. So easy, in fact, that the bad guys don’t really need to come into close physical contact with you, or your credit card information.
RFID (radio frequency identification) chips placed in cards to make checking out and paying for items less time-consuming are also open to savvy thieves. RFID is used by “pay wave” retailers; at the register, there’s no swiping and entering information–just wave the RFID-enabled card in front of a scanner and it’s done. It’s similar to electronic tolling on US highways.
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
The Second City may be first city when it comes to surveillance, a fact that’s not escaped the ACLU. Chicago’s rise to becoming what may be the most well monitored city started in 2003 when the city’s strapped police department started installing “blue light” cameras in areas known for crime.
According to the Raw Story, there are some 1000+ cameras capable of picking up the text in a book.
While the official number isn’t exactly known, estimates state that there are over 10,000 security camera systems – public and private- in the nation’s third largest city. The existence of the camera systems has many crying “foul” over the city’s possible invasion of privacy. (more…)
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