A 32-year-old man with multiple prior burglary convictions has been charged with five residential break-ins and an aggravated robbery carried out across several North Side neighborhoods.
Malcolm Junious is accused of committing five separate crimes between June 15 and October 21, including a robbery that targeted a woman inside her home, according to court records. Judge James Murphy III ordered him detained after prosecutors noted his extensive criminal history, which includes multiple felony burglary convictions.
The first reported incident occurred on June 15 in the 800 block of West Cuyler Avenue, when victims discovered a handgun, a Nintendo Switch, $10,000 in cash, and $75,000 in jewelry missing. Surveillance footage showed the burglar carrying a white clipboard, and a CPD officer who saw the video recognized Junious from a prior arrest. Investigators later tied Junious’ phone to the burglary through pawnshop records and the device’s GPS data.
Detectives began to suspect Junious was responsible for a string of burglaries, and on October 17, a court authorized a “pen register” for Junious’s phone, prosecutors said. That’s a surveillance tool that records numbers dialed or called from a specific phone and tracks its general activity in real time. Using the data, detectives saw Junious’s phone traveling toward Chicago on October 21, prosecutors said in a detention filing. That afternoon, several burglaries were reported across the North Side…