A 16-year-old Chicago boy is facing charges after police say he pulled off two armed robberies an hour apart on the South Side, then got picked up downtown a few weeks later.
According to Chicago police, the first holdup unfolded just before 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 9 inside a business in the 3700 block of South Archer Avenue, where a man was allegedly held at gunpoint. Roughly an hour later, officers say, a 58-year-old woman was robbed in the 2400 block of West 103rd Street.
Officers arrested the teen around 10:11 a.m. Monday in the 0–100 block of North Wabash Avenue. Police also accuse him of trespassing into a vehicle that had been reported stolen on Oct. 6 from the 10300 block of South Green Street.
Arrest And Charges, Per Police
The Chicago Police Department, as reported by FOX 32 Chicago, says the teen is tied to both armed robberies as well as the trespass-to-vehicle case involving the previously stolen car from South Green Street. Detectives linked the incidents before taking him into custody Monday morning on North Wabash.
How This Case Fits Locally
The arrest lands in the middle of a year where Chicago police have repeatedly flagged juveniles in armed robberies, carjackings, and similar violent incidents. Hoodline has covered several of those cases, including a March report in which a 17-year-old faced armed robbery and aggravated vehicular hijacking charges; our earlier look at that prior teen carjacking case walked through the accusations and court filings in detail…