3 ARRESTED AFTER MAG MILE HEIST
Three people were arrested Friday morning after a Magnificent Mile shoplifting suspect got into a vehicle that drove off and crashed a short time later on the Near North Side.
Officers on patrol about 11: 45 a. m. saw a male running out of a retail store in the 900 block of North Michigan carrying multiple purses, according to Chicago Police. He then got into a vehicle that had two other people inside, and the vehicle drove away.
The officers followed the vehicle, which eventually crashed into multiple other vehicles and came to a stop at another location, police said. Three males got out of the vehicle and tried to run but were taken into custody.
Merchandise stolen from the store was recovered, and charges against the suspects were pending Friday, police said. Sun-Times Wire
25-year- old Niles woman’s train- crash death ruled accident
A woman killed when her car was struck by a train on Metra’s Union Pacific-Northwest lines Wednesday afternoon has been identified as a 25- year- old north suburban resident.
UP- NW train 650, scheduled to arrive at Ogilvie Station at 4: 59 p. m., struck the vehicle about 4: 50 p. m. near Nagle and Northwest Highway, according to Metra.
The driver, Sana F. Khan of Niles, was killed at the scene, according to Fire Media Affairs. No one else was in the car, and no one on the train was injured.
An autopsy showed Khan died of multiple injuries from the crash and ruled her death an accident, according to the medical examiner’s office. Sun-Times Wire
Burglars drive into Austin store window, steal items
Police are looking for three suspects who burglarized a store early Friday in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
About 3: 45 a. m., a black truck drove into the front window of the store in the 1500 block of North Cicero, according to Chicago Police.
The three male suspects stole an unknown amount of merchandise from the store before fleeing, police said. Sun-Times Wire
Prosecutor: Man who exposed himself told cops, ‘ It’s fun, until I get caught’
In the pre- dawn hours on Sept. 23, a woman walked from her Galewood house to her car when she saw it: a man, naked except for his shoes and socks, masturbating in the glow of the streetlamp on the corner of North Melvina Avenue and Wabansia.
She ran to the car and called police.
Five days later, the woman again was walking to her car in the early morning hours, this time with her 8- year- old daughter. Stripped to his feet and gazing at mother and child, the man stood, masturbating on the same corner, Cook County prosecutors said. The woman and her daughter hurried to the car as the man came toward them. Before they could speed away, he stood beside the girl at the passenger window, still pleasuring himself, prosecutors said.
On Wednesday, the woman peered out of her windows before leaving the house and spied the man again, nude but for his shoes, facing her house and allegedly masturbating. Again, the woman called police. This time, officers arrived in time. After a short foot chase, the woman’s tormentor — 30- yearold Calvin Pitchford — was arrested, authorities said.
“It’s fun, until I get caught,” Pitchford told police, Assistant State’s Attorney Nancee Hofheimer said Friday at his bond hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.
Pitchford faces charges of sexual exploitation of a child and three counts of public indecency. Judge Sophia Atcherson ordered him to post $ 5,000 bail and wear a GPS monitoring bracelet. Andy Grimm