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CHICAGO — Four people, including two boys arrested on the Magnificent Mile last night, are believed to be involved in a string of robberies, including three at Rivers Casino earlier this month, law enforcement sources say. I have.
With the help of a CPD helicopter, Chicago police and other law enforcement agencies tracked down a white Jeep Compass involved in a robbery in Park Ridge on Sunday night.
Officers from the Chicago Police Department and other agencies eventually stopped the Jeep at Block 700 in northern Michigan around 10:20 p.m. and arrested four people who allegedly fled from there, police said.
jeep is armed robbery About 20 minutes earlier, two masked men showed guns and robbed the victim before fleeing in an SUV, according to law enforcement sources. reported Arlington Cardinal.
Investigators also learned that the Jeep was used in the robbery outside Rivers Casino minutes before Mariano’s holdup.
Chicago police recovered at least one handgun from the jeep. After the chase ended, two phones were found in Lakeshore Park that were believed to have been abandoned by the suspect.
Ten minutes later, the same group hit another victim in the same Mariano parking lot where last night’s robbery occurred, officials said.
About 30 minutes after the suburban robbery ended on March 10, during two West Loop robberies, in a red SUV similar to the one used in the Des Plaines and Park Ridge crimes. Eight men were robbed by a group of fleeing armed men. A law enforcement source told CWB Chicago at the time that police were investigating links to crime in the city and suburbs.
As of noon Monday, a Chicago Police Department spokesperson said charges against the four people police arrested were still pending.
