Kudos to C.P.D.

Chicago police officers arrested a suspect minutes after the man is believed to have held up an Old Town bank this afternoon.
The man is being questioned in the robbery of the Fifth Third Bank branch, 145 W. North Avenue, about 2:15 p.m. today, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Daniel O’Brien. The robber implied he had a gun and fled with cash from the bank.
The suspect was cornered by three Near North District tactical officers, including one who was among officers who arrested a suspect in a March bank robbery a mile south of today's heist.
Near North District Officer John McCarthy and his partner, Officer Lucas Wise, were patrolling in the area when they heard a description of the suspect broadcast on police radio, McCarthy said. Soon after, the officers spotted a man matching the robber’s description, wearing dark pants and a gray shirt, about three blocks from the bank in the 200 block of West Schiller Street, McCarthy said.
By the time McCarthy and Wise jumped out of their car, a third officer, Jim McGuire, also part of the Near North tactical team, had arrived and worked to arrest the man, McCarthy said. The man gave the officers no trouble, McCarthy said.
“He just complied,” when the officers told him he was being arrested.
Officers found cash, possibly from the robbery, on the man, and when the officers brought the man back to the bank he was identified as the robber, McCarthy said.
With a heavy police presence on Chicago streets this week because of the upcoming NATO Summit, the robber picked “a bad time” to rob a bank, McCarthy said.
“It was just poor planning on his part,” said McCarthy.
McCarthy was one of three officers who arrested Leroy Delphie, 42, in the robbery of a North Community Bank branch, 800 N. State St., on March 2, just five days after Delphie was released on parole from Shawnee Correctional Center.
McCarthy, Officer Luis Novalez and Officer Anthony Odeshoo arrested Delphie after Novalez spotted Delphie with red dye on his pants, apparently from a dye pack that had been hidden in a stack of money from the North Community Bank robbery.
Charges are not expected against the man arrested today until Tuesday, FBI spokesman Ross Rice said.

 

Indian Head Park is now going to get Justice

John L. Wilson Jr. is fit to stand trial in the October stabbing death of an Indian Head Parkteenager who walked in on a burglary in progress at her home, a judge ruled today.

Cook County Judge John Hynes found Wilson fit after reviewing psychiatric reports and evaluations, according to Cook County State’s Attorney Spokesman Andy Conklin.

Wilson, 38, is charged with the stabbing death of Kelli O'Laughlin in October as she arrived home from high school, then using her cell phone to send taunting text messages to her mother.

He was arrested about a week later after authorities tracked the cell phone. Wilson’s older brother, Shun Dantzler, told the Chicago Tribune soon after the incident that Wilson “had problems, psychiatric problems.”

According to Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, Wilson grabbed an 8-inch carving knife from a butcher's block and stabbed Kelli in the neck, back and chest. He then dragged her body from the family room into the kitchen.

Alvarez said Wilson ransacked the home and fled with a bowl of coins, an iPod Touch and Kelli's phone. The knife was found in the family room.

Prosecutors said that Wilson is a habitual criminal who had been in prison for 17 of the last 20 years.

Wilson was last paroled Nov. 16, 2010 after serving part of an 11-year prison term for a robbery in which he snatched a woman’s purse in Chicago in August 2002.

Conklin said the next court hearing for Wilson is set for May 30

Lets back track a little

Alot has happened since my last blog. Since my last blog we have a man's body being retrieved from the lake just South of North Ave.Click on link for full story. We also heard a Lake County inmate convicted of rape wants a retrial after 20 years in lock up. click here for full story.

You all remember that lady who killed 5 teens in Aurora after she fail a sobriety test and was charged with DUI well she is asking for a retrial. If they give it to her I would be pissed cause she was found guilty and non of her constitutional rights were violated. Our lovely state rep guilty of taking a bribe is going to lose his seat after all. His Democrat Party is looking for a replacement since Former Senetor and now Federal Prosecutor has gone undeffeated with charging and convicting corrupt politition's from Illinois. The Ex-Wife of Des Plaines had a similar justice with the police department when they shot and killed her 44 year old ex husband and the father of 5 kids guess she wont be getting child support and I guess this is her way of not giving him visitation. But the best thing I heard wasthat no police officer's were injured in that incident and in the chase that Chicago Police had to endure at 1pm. Officer's made a traffic stop when they saw a weapon in the vehicle when the subject was asked to step out the subject took off leading police on a chase that ended with inocent people and the offender injured at Christ Hospital and in police custody

Catholic Worker's protest and were arrested

GET THE FULL STORY ON HOW SECURITY LOCKED DOORS AND WERE OVER TAKEN BY PROTESTER'S ONLY TO ARREST THEM 30 MINUTES LATER. JUST CLICK HERE, CLICK HERE, CLICK, YOU KNOW YOUR GOING TO JUST CLICK HERE

Sarge's thought

13May12  A off duty Police Officer was trying to do some shopping for his wife and mother when he noticed 4 male blacks standing in front of the store bothering people as they walk in to the store. The officer asked them what are they doing the subjects stated nothing. The officer then identified himself as a police officer and stated that they will be the next trayvon if they don't walk off.

So why is it when a black man can say shit like this but a white, hispanic, asian,or other ethnic groups say it, it is racial

Alsip is still a quiet town gets a murder once in a while

Autopsy results were inconclusive Saturday for a 41-year-old Alsip man who was found dead in his home, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. A cause of death for Patrick Popp, of the 5000 block of West 121st Place, may be determined pending further studies, the office said. No further information was available, other than a funeral home brought his body to the office.
Autopsy results were inconclusive Saturday for a 41-year-old Alsip man who was found dead in his home, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

A cause of death for Patrick Popp, of the 5000 block of West 121st Place, may be determined pending further studies, the office said.

No further information was available, other than a funeral home brought his body to the office.

Blues Brother, Bass Guitarist for Elvis Presley has died

NEW YORK — Donald “Duck” Dunn, the bassist who helped create the gritty Memphis soul sound at Stax Records in the 1960s as part of the legendary group Booker T. and the MGs and contributed to such classics as “In the Midnight Hour,” "Hold On, I'm Coming“ and ”Sitting on the Dock of the Bay," died today at 70.

Dunn, whose legacy as one of the most respected session musicians in the business also included work with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's Blues Brothers as well as with Levon Helm, Eric Clapton, Neil Young and Bob Dylan, died while on tour in Tokyo.

News of his death was posted on the Facebook site of his friend and fellow musician Steve Cropper, who was on the same tour. Cropper said Dunn died in his sleep.

Dunn was born in Memphis, Tenn., in 1941, and according to the biography on his official website, was nicknamed for the cartoon character by his father. His father, a candy maker, did not want him to be a musician.

“He thought I would become a drug addict and die. Most parents in those days thought music was a pastime, something you did as a hobby, not a profession,” Dunn said.

But by the time Dunn was in high school, he was in a band with Cropper.

Cropper left to become a session player at Stax, the Memphis record company that would become known for its soul recordings and artists such as Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Isaac Hayes and the Staples Singers.

Dunn soon followed Cropper and joined the Stax house band, also known as Booker T. and the MGs.

It was one of the first racially integrated soul groups, with two whites (Dunn on bass and Cropper on guitar) and two blacks (Booker T. Jones on organ and Al Jackson on drums), and was later inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The group had its heyday in the 1960s as backup for various Stax artists. Dunn played on Redding's “Respect” and “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay,” Sam and Dave's “Hold On, I'm Coming” and Wilson Pickett's “In the Midnight Hour.”

Booker T. and the MGs had its own hits as well, including “Hang ‘Em High,” ‘'Soul-Limbo“ and, before Dunn joined the band, the cool 1962 instrumental ”Green Onions."

“I would have liked to have been on the road more, but the record company wanted us in the studio. Man, we were recording almost a hit a day for a while there,” Dunn said.

In the 1970s, the group's members drifted apart. Jackson was killed in Memphis in 1975 by an intruder in his home. Cropper and Dunn reunited when they joined Aykroyd and Belushi's Blues Brothers band and appeared in the 1980 “Blues Brothers” movie.

“How could anybody not want to work with John and Dan? I was really kind of hesitant to do that show, but my wife talked me into it,” Dunn said in a 2007 interview with Vintage Guitar magazine, “and other than Booker's band, that's the most fun band I've ever been in.” Dunn also did session work on recordings by Clapton, Young, Dylan, Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty, according to his discography.


Dunn once said that he and Cropper were “like married people.” “I can look at him and know what he'll order for dinner,” he said. “When we play music together we both know where we're going.” Dunn received a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2007.

He is survived by his wife, June; a son, Jeff; and a grandchild, Michael, said Michael Leahy, Dunn's agent.