A grand jury has returned burglary indictments against a man who, if Chicago police and court records are to be believed, ran a one-man crime wave through Wrigleyville and nearby Lakeview this summer — getting arrested five times in eight weeks, pleading guilty and drawing a 30-day jail sentence along the way, and then, right about the time that sentence would have run out, getting arrested all over again.
James Blackman, 48, is now charged with burglarizing a Land Rover on August 30 and breaking into a garage in the same neighborhood nine days later. Those arrests were just two entries in a summer rap sheet that also included allegations of trespassing in a garage, carrying an air rifle near Wrigley Field, repeatedly stealing liquor from a Jewel-Osco, and threatening to beat up a security guard.
It all began around 9:30 a.m. on July 16, when a nanny entered a family’s garage in the 3600 block of North Wayne Avenue and found Blackman inside, police said. He fled on a Divvy bike, but officers arrested him nearby and charged him with misdemeanor criminal trespass to a residence. He was released to await trial…