Shaking Building On Mayfield, Burglar Alarm On Altgeld

Good morning, everyone, it's 9:40am. I hope everyone will celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. today, as it is Martin Luther King Day. Remember the sacrifice he made to end segregation in this country. Anyway, I'm monitoring mostly just Zone 12, but will monitor some other Zones around 6:30pm or 7pm. With that, here's crime for today.

9:42am - 1) Information for the CPD. 15XX N Mayfield. People are moving so many things into the vacant building that the caller's building is shaking. 2) Burglar alarm. 49XX W Altgeld.

9:48am - Open door. 51XX W Washington. Back door is open.

9:49am - Beat 2530 is doing an outdoor roll call at LeMoyne and Central.

9:50am - Beat car 1523 has a family member who lives at the Mayfield address, who says that there's an open back door there. She's advising they use caution.

9:53am - Theft in progress. 5118 W Madison. In the rear of the vacant building, two males are stealing things. A green pick-up truck is involved.

9:56am - 1) Now they're saying that on the 9:53am job, someone's got a gun. 2) Beat 2506Charlie asks for an event number for the "Conflict Zone" (Beats 2531 and 2532). It's 04750.

10:22am - Theft. 2233 N Cicero. At Windy City auto repairs. Seven batteries were taken out of various cars.

10:25am - Suspicious person. 67XX W Wrightwood. Someone's trying to get into the building.

10:27am - Beat car 2514 is on scene of the 10:25am job, saying that no one's out there. It's going to be coded.

10:58am - Narcotics. On 2533's Beat.

11:00am - Robbery. 5355 W Diversey. Three males with masks and guns just held up the computer store. Computers, wallets and other things were taken. All of the victims are on the floor.

11:02am - Officers are on scene of the 11am job. The suspects are covered head to toe in black clothing. One fled from the front and the other two fled from the back. They went in unknown directions. They displayed handguns.

11:03am - A detective is on the way to 5355 Diversey.

11:04am - Per one of the witnesses, a green cargo van was involved. Another witness said a maroon car was involved. Also, Beat 5559 stopped a possible at Laramie and Schubert, but he's not one of the suspects.

11:06am - The offenders might be Hispanic. They had Spainish accents.

11:07am - A green conversion van with a sliver leader on it was involved.

11:08am - They're looking at video from the cameras in the store now.

11:09am - One of the things taken during this incident was a huge purse that can't be missed.

11:15am - According to the trackers on the computers and cell phones, the suspects are in the area around Belmont and Harlem.

11:16am - The van is burgundy in color. It's a conversion van.

11:17am - The trackers show the suspects to be on the 3300 block of N. Octavia, in 16.

11:18am - An RD number is being pulled from this incident. It's HV119828 with the event number of 05645.

11:19am - Per Beat 5561, he wants only a couple of units in the area. The rest are being told to clear out for now.

11:21am - All units are being advised to clear the area.

11:25am through 11:40am - Police/Dispatch chatter regarding the 5355 Diversey incident.

12:31pm - The vehicle now has the following: multiple shades of burgundy on it, chrome bumper, spare tire on the left of the rear and two sliding windows.

12:48pm - Suspicious person. 7169 W Medill. Male White, slim build, baseball cap, black parka is on a bicycle and keeps looking into the vacant property at this address. He's been there all morning.

12:58pm - 1) Narcotics. Adams and Laramie. 2) Narcotics. 1XX S Lockwood. Three male Blacks, one in a blue jacket, one in a black Nikey's jacket and one in a black jacket are selling.

12:59pm - Disturbance. 48XX W Wabansia.

1:02pm - Robbery. 4500 W Armitage. At the brickhouse company.

1:08pm - Battery in progress. 48XX W Fulton.

1:14pm - 1) Assault. 3XX N Central. 2) Alarm. 5545 W Harrison. At the learning academy.

1:15pm - Narcotics. 5430 W Chicago.

2:57pm - Traffic accident. Central and Division.

2:59pm - Beat car 1531 has a traffic stop at Jackson and Cicero.

3:01pm - 1531 has a handwaver at their stop, saying that there's a home invasion in progress at 47XX W Jackson.

3:03pm - Beat car 1532 is heading over to Jackson as well.

3:05pm - 1) 1531 has an open door at the Jackson address. They're going to search the building. 2) Theft in progress. 18XX N Kedvale. Tenants in the basement just broke into the caller's garage and are stealing things.

3:09pm - Residential alarm. 48XX W Madison.

3:17pm - 1531 is clear from the Jackson thing.

3:18pm - Traffic accident. 5400 W Grand. Semi VS pole.

3:23pm - Burglar report. 2XX N Mayfield.

4:08pm - Beat 1561Adam is doing a narcotics dispersal from somewhere. Console time is 16:08 and the event number is 11078.

5:23pm - Disturbance. 30XX N Austin.

5:25pm - Person w/ a gun. North and Cicero. Two male Hispanics both in black hoodies are flashing gang signs and a gun at the bus stop.

6:58pm - Beat 956 has a street stop at Lafflin and 54th.

6:59pm - Theft. 3145 S Ashland.

7:06pm - Recover the stolen vehicle. 14XX S Avers.

7:09pm - Theft in progress. 42XX W Haddon.

7:10pm - I'm gone for the night. I'll be back tomorrow or sometime during the week. Good night, everyone.