Monday, March 4, 2013
A Palos Hills man claiming to be a white supremacist kicked and spat at police.
A Palos Hills man claiming to be a white supremacist kicked and spat at police who chased him down after he attempted to run over a customer in the parking lot at Walgreens in Frankfort. James Schoepf, 46, Palos Hills, was stopped Feb. 23 by Mokena police as he was fleeing the parking lot at Walgreens at Route 30 and Harlem Avenue in Frankfort. Police said the incident at Walgreens started as a "theft in progress." According to the report, Mokena police responded the alert when a car matching the description was spotted headed north on LaGrange Road at LaPorte Road. He reportedly led police on a chase that ended on Lakeview Way in Mokena. Police said he leaned over to the passenger side of his vehicle and appeared to reaching for something…
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Reginald Taylor, 47, robbed the Palos Heights store at gunpoint and then fled to Oak Lawn, authorities say. Charges also are expected in connection with a Frankfort Radio Shack robbery.
A Chicago man charged in a standoff with Oak Lawn police is now accused of robbing the Palos Heights Radio Shack at gunpoint. Reginald Taylor, 47, of the 7100 block of South Harvard, is charged with armed robbery. He is accused of drawing a gun on employees on Wednesday inside the Harlem Avenue electronics store. The Cook County States Attorney’s Office approved the charge on Friday. Two Radio Shack employees who were in the store when it was robbed at picked Taylor out of a lineup on Thursday, Palos Heights police said. Taylor waited for customers to leave the Palos Heights store before locking the store's front door, police said. He pulled out a handgun, demanded money and fled with the cash. Taylor then made his way to Oak Lawn where he…
Friday, November 9, 2012
Witnesses identify suspect from Frankfort and Palos Heights store robberies in police lineup at Oak Lawn police station where suspect was nabbed Wednesday after standoff, cops say.
A man suspected in several Southland Radio Shack armed robberies and who allegedly held Oak Lawn police at a bay with a gun was charged on Thursday with one count of a felon in possession of a firearm. Reginald Taylor, 47, of Chicago, is accused of barricading himself in residential stairwell armed with a loaded 9mm semi-automatic handgun and threatening police. Oak Lawn police said that Taylor hid there after fleeing officers when an employee of the Radio Shack store in at 4819 W. 95th St. called to report a suspicious person. Taylor was placed in a lineup at the Oak Lawn police station where employees from other Radio Shack stores in Frankfort and Palos Heights were brought to see if he was the man who robbed their stores on Nov. 1 and …
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Jay Hutchens
4:51 pm on Thursday, April 11, 2013
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