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Monday, April 8, 2013

New Lenox Woman Fleeing Coke Arrest Runs Over Oak Lawn Cop

Woman refused to unlock her doors, ran over cop and got away during drug arrest, police said.

An arrest warrant was obtained for a former resident who eluded arrest during a pre-arranged cocaine sting, reports said. Oak Lawn police learned from a “confidential source” that Brittany Alyssa Rotto, 23, of the 700 block of Schoolgate Road, in New Lenox, had allegedly called to ask if he wanted to purchase two eight-balls of cocaine. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter, New Lenox Patch newsletter and Tinley Park Patch newsletter. Follow us on Oak Lawn Facebook, New Lenox and Tinley Park Facebook. Detectives arranged a sale between the confidential source and Rotto in the McDonald’s parking lot at 91st Street and Cicero Avenue.  Police set up surveillance and at 9:40 p.m. March 17, Rotto’s gray Mazda entered the parking lot, …

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jim

9:17 pm on Saturday, May 11, 2013

I believe your 100 percent right!! While uniformed people waste there time on personal vendetta on issues that are much more important than things that should really be handled. People make mistakes and your right there are bigger fish to catch in the game of drug cartel!!! Bless Her and Hopefully she will change some choices in life!   more ›

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Chicago Man Accused of Radio Shack Armed Robbery

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…

very concerned citizen

7:09 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012

This guy was a regular customer at speedway on harlem and benton where I used to work. I knew he looked shady but as long as speedway gets there money from customers they dont care.We had our childrens fund money stolen off the counter by a customer from the next town over who still comes in our store.Sounds nice doesnt it.Well I stopped that when the guy had the nerve to come back in the same …   more ›

Chicago Man Accused of Radio Shack Armed Robbery

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. Authorities in Frankfort are also looking at Taylor for a Nov. 1 armed robbery of the Radio Shack location on La Grange Road. Two Palos Heights Radio Shack employees who were in the store when it was robbed 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…

Friday, November 9, 2012

Radio Shack Robbery Suspect Charged in Oak Lawn Standoff

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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