Crime & Safety
Knife-Wielding Men Rob Victims in Bucktown, Lake View and Lincoln Park
Six incidents were reported in less than 90 minutes late Monday afternoon.

CHICAGO, IL - A group of three black men surrounded victims and robbed them in six separate incidents in less than a two-hour time frame late Monday afternoon on the North Side.
Six cases of the men approaching victims and physically restraining them by putting them into a headlock of surrounding them so there is no escape were reported between 3:45 p.m. and 5:01 p.m. in the Bucktown, Lincoln Park and Lake View neighborhoods, according to a Chicago Sun-Times report.
In each of the cases, the men showed a knife “in a menacing manner” and made off with the victim’s cellphones, credit cars and cash. They all sped away in a black Nissan or Honda hatchback vehicle.
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The men are described as being between 13 and 25 years old. One said to be about 5’5” and 150 pounds and another 6 feet and 180 pounds.
Three of the six robberies occurred on Greenview Avenue between the 2500 and 3700 blocks.
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