Chicago police say Michael Nash admitted he was at the scene of a violent robbery in Woodlawn a couple of weeks ago, but only, he claimed, in his role as a neighborhood “peacekeeper.”
But CPD also says he was actually one of the robbers and, in a notably unpeaceful twist, twice used phone calls from the police station to try to arrange for people to intimidate the victim and a witness into staying quiet.
The robbery unfolded on November 8 around 3:27 p.m. Prosecutors said the victim had just bought cigarettes and other items from a corner store when he noticed two men watching him, including Nash. As he walked home to the 6400 block of South Martin Luther King Drive, he heard one of them ask for forty dollars…