Natalia Chi
A Chicago man remains incarcerated today after prosecutors charged him with robbing a Goose Island gas station armed with a garden hose nozzle. I’m trying to determine if I’m also responsible for robbing a 15-year-old boy while brandishing things earlier in the day.
Sparks, who is out on bail pending conviction for manufacturing and delivering crack cocaine, walked into a service station at 1234 North Halstead shortly before 6 p.m. said the prosecutor. The cashier thought it was a taser gun.
After collecting Red Bull and a candy bar, Sparks walked out, but was stopped by Chicago police about 30 minutes later in the 700 block of West Shiller. said.
Minutes before the holdup, a woman who was moving near Division and Halstead, not far from a gas station, called 911 after a man pointed what he believed to be a gun at his car.
Three hours before the gas station robbery, a 15-year-old boy called police and showed a hose nozzle in the garden to a man who stole an orange Calvin Klein coat at Block 1300 in North Clybourne, according to CPD. I reported. report.
As of Friday, Sparks had not been charged in any of those cases.
Judge Mariam Ahmad ordered him to post $4,000 bail to get out of prison, but he is ineligible for immediate release because he was held without posting bail in a pending drug case. The indictment stems from allegations that police recovered six bags of suspected crack cocaine from Sparks after police witnessed him directly conducting a drug deal on the Gold Coast on November 12. increase.
