COPS: STROLLER CONTAINED GUNS
An 18- year- old Back of the Yards woman faces weapons charges after she was stopped by Chicago Police as she pushed a baby stroller containing a rifle, handgun and ammunition early Monday morning.
Yarisma Martinez lived a few blocks froma house in the 4500 block of South Hermitage, where a police surveillance camera spotted a man firing a rifle on the street around midnight, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The camera showed 18- year- old Martinez and another woman arriving at the house soon after, carrying a bag as they entered. The pair left the house, this time pushing a stroller and carrying a diaper bag.
Police stopped Martinez as she pushed the stroller south down South Wood Street and asked her if she had any weapons, according to a police report. Martinez directed the officer to look in the stroller, the report said.
The officers found a Mossberg 30- 30 rifle with two live rounds and a spent shell inside wrapped in a blanket, prosecutors said. Also in the stroller was a loaded 9mm pistol with an additional 15- round magazine and a box of bullets.
Prosecutors said Martinez had no prior criminal record, but Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil ordered her held on $ 20,000 bail on Tuesday.
“Here is an 18- year- old with two guns on the streets of our city,” Ciesil said at a hearing in Cook County Central Bond Court, prompting frowns from half a dozen relatives. Andy Grimm
DePaul student shot during attempted robbery
A DePaul student was shot during an attempted robbery Monday night near the campus in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.
The 18- year- old man was walking in the 2600 block of North Sheffield about 11: 45 p. m. when two males, one of whom was armed, walked up and demanded his belongings, police said. Theman said the would- be robbers opened fire when he tried to run away.
He was shot in the left leg and walked into Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was listed in good condition, police said.
Police said the man told officers “he was intoxicated and unsure of the exact location of the incident.” DePaul’s Public Safety office was notified of the shooting about 5 a. m. and reported it happened in the 1100 block of West Lill Avenue.
Tuesday, DePaul released a statement saying campus security officers would be “on heightened alert.” Ashlee Rezin, Jordan Owen
Man dead, another critical after hitting power lines
One man died and a second was seriously injured Tuesday after making contact with ComEd power lines while cutting limbs from a tree near Villa and Myrick avenues in Addison.
Killed was Jose Fulgencio-Hueramo, 51, of Melrose Park. Authorities said Fulgencio- Hueramo was knocked off a ladder and fell to the ground and was in cardiac arrest when authorities arrived. He died at Adventist GlenOaks Hospital.
The second man, was airlifted to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove. He was listed in critical condition.
Addison firefighters and police were called at 11: 01 a. m. They said the men were trimming a backyard tree when they came in contact with the power line. The second man was still in the tree when firefighters arrived.
Authorities said it appeared neither man was working for a professional tree service. Bob Smith, Daily Herald
Nurse allegedly robbed S. Loop pharmacy twice, arrested on 3rd attempt
A 58- year- old nurse robbed the same South Loop Osco twice before she was arrested making a third attempt Monday, prosecutors said.
Ernelle Oliver, of south suburban Richton Park, was arrested at the Jewel- Osco at 1340 S. Canal. Prosecutors say Oliver admitted to robbing the same store two weeks earlier, as well as on Jan. 27. Each time, Oliver made off with hundreds of tablets of the prescription antidepressant alprazolam, also known by the brand name Xanax. In the January robbery, Oliver went to the pharmacy counter holding an object and told the pharmacist, “Give me your Xanax and don’t push any buttons, or I will shoot you,” according to a Chicago Police report. The pharmacist turned over two containers of pills with 262 tablets. On March 17, Oliver took more than 500 Xanax pills.
Oliver came back to the store again Monday, and was spotted by store security and held until police arrived. Prosecutors said Oliver confessed and said she had “mental health issues.” State records show Oliver has a valid nursing license. Andy Grimm