Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Suspect was picked up in traffic stop earlier this week, sheriff's police say.
A 43-year-old, Oak Lawn man was arrested after he was identified as a possible suspect in a residential burglary in unincorporated Palos Park. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office announced burglary charges against Sonny Miller, of Oak Lawn, on Tuesday. According to the sheriff’s police news release, around 12:40 p.m. Jan. 30, a man wearing a white hard hat and carrying a tan shoulder bag with a fluorescent stripe knocked on the door of a house in the 12000 block of Newport Drive in Palos Park. Join the conversation. Friend Palos Patch on Facebook and sign up for the daily email newsletter! Police said the man, identified as Miller, began yelling about an electrical emergency in the area and that he needed to check the outlets. When the 87-…
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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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Oak Lawn police continue to investigation Tuesday's armed robbery of a cell phone store.
Police released surveillance photos of two men suspected in the Tuesday evening robbery of the T-Mobile store at 10312 S. Cicero Ave. The images depict two male blacks who allegedly entered the store around 6:35 p.m. Tuesday and forced two employees to lie on the floor at gunpoint while they made off with an unknown amount of cash. Anyone who witnessed the robbery or has information is encouraged to call Oak Lawn police at 708-422-8292. The images have also been added to an earlier Oak Lawn Patch report. Like Palos Patch on Facebook and sign up for the breaking news alerts! By Lorraine Swanson
Thursday, August 23, 2012
A grieving family is left with more questions than answers about missing loved one, specifically why he would uncharacteristically leave the house in the late evening and go to a forest preserve.
Alpha Sabbithi wasn’t the type of person who would cause his family to worry. So when the 27-year-old seminary student didn’t answer his cell phone after announcing he was going for a walk late Saturday evening, his family knew something was terribly wrong. Subscribe to the Palos Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. “He always answers his phone,” Victor Sabbithi, 25, said of his brother. “If he doesn’t answer he calls back within the hour. He never stays out past 10:30 or 11 o’clock. He doesn’t party. Even if he’s at a concert he usually calls back or texts.” Reported missing by his family early Sunday morning, Alpha’s body was found in Maple Lake after a two-day search through the Cook County Forest Preserve. The Cook County Medical…
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Cook County Forest Preserve Police use forest preserve on all-terrain vehicles and use bloodhound in search for missing 27-year-old man who suffers from depression. Man's car found in Cook County Forest Preserve with phone, wallets and keys locked inside.
A multipronged search is underway for a 27-year-old, Oak Lawn man reported missing early Sunday morning. Alpha Sabbithi, of the 4100 block of West 93rd Place, was reported missing at 2:23 a.m. by his family, Oak Lawn police said. Sabbithi is said to be suffering from depression. Cook County Forest Preserve Police searched the Maple Lake Forest Preserve at 95th Street and Wolf Road on all-terrain vehicles after Sabbithi’s car was found parked nearby on Sunday. Police said there was nothing remarkable about the car’s condition and that Sabbithi’s cell phone, wallet and car keys were locked inside. A bloodhound from the Joliet Police tracked a scent to the Saganashkee Slough at 107th Street and 104th Avenue. The scent was lost there. The Cook…
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Police said a man connected to Saturday's robbery of the Bank of America branch in Oak Lawn has been charged with one count of robbery. Bank employees say they heard what sounded like the robber talking to another person outside the bank on a cell phone.
Criminal charges were filed against a Chicago man in connection with Saturday’s take-over robbery of the Bank of America branch at 4606 W. 111th St. SIGN UP for Oak Lawn Patch breaking news alerts. Charles B. Estell, 38, was charged with one count of bank robbery in federal court on Sunday morning. Estell was found stuck in an air duct after he apparently hid in the ceiling of a shopping center, Oak Lawn police said. More than 60 police officers and FBI agents spent eleven hours searching for the alleged bank bandit. They believed the robber to be hiding in the ceiling of the shopping center where the bank branch is located after finding a broken window in an upstairs office and a blood trail leading to different sections of the second …
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Oak Lawn Police confirm that bank robbery suspect is in custody after 11-hour standoff.
OUTSIDE CHICAGO, IL -- Police SWAT teams nabbed a man suspected of robbing an Oak Lawn bank on Saturday afternoon after an 11-hour standoff. Subscribe to the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Around 2:14 p.m. Saturday, a suspect described as a male black in his 20s entered the Bank of America at 4046 W. 111th St. through a hole in the roof after the bank had closed. Two bank employees were handcuffed with zip ties. The alleged bandit escaped through the ceiling with an undisclosed amount of cash, Oak Lawn Police Division Chief Michael Kaufmann said. READ earlier on-the-scene coverage from Saturday afternoon. Kaufmann confirmed that police had a person in custody around 1 a.m. Sunday. Kaufmann said that SWAT team members …
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Saturday, June 2, 2012
Police believe bank robbery suspect is still in the building.
Update 12:20 a.m. Here is our last update on Saturday's bank robbery. More than 60 law enforcement officers, including Oak Lawn Police, the South Suburban Emergency Response Team, FBI and Cook County Sheriff's Police remain at the Bank of America shopping center as of midnight. Oak Lawn Division Chief Mike Kaufmann said police still believe the bank robbery suspect, described as a male black in his 20s, is holed up in the ceiling. There is no further information. If there is an update later this morning, Kaufmann said that a press release will be sent out today. Our last image of the evening is of an FBI SWAT team member suiting up at 111th Street and Keeler Avenue, walking west down 111th Street toward Pulaski Road carrying his high power…
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Woman whose car is hit follows other driver until police catch up in Palos Heights.
Two men face charges for switching places in the driver's seat after leaving the scene of an accident on Dec. 11, reports said. Peter Rodriguez, 44, of Tinley Park was charged with driving under the influence, leaving the scene of an accident and permitting an intoxicated person to drive. Palos Heights police charged Kristopher Zitta, 22, of Peotone, for driving with a suspended license and driving under the influence. Oak Lawn police drove to 95th Street and Melvina Avenue after a woman called to say her car had been rear-ended by another car around 7:30 p.m. Police said the woman followed men’s car and saw both men get out and switch places after the accident. She described Rodriguez, the driver, as wearing a Chicago Bears coat and Zitta…
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patty
6:55 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013
This is a GYPSY!!!! This is what these people do. They are all over the Bridgeview and Worth area and you dont even know it. All i got to say the show they have on Gypsy are is nothing like the ones here. These ones talk weird and have weird names like SPANKY. more ›