The robber has been targeting women in north lakefront neighborhoods.
-- Police issued a community alert Thursday about a robber who has been using a U-Haul truck as his getaway vehicle.CBS 2's Chris Tye reported on three robberies on Wednesday, while the alert mentioned a fourth.
Police could not confirm a first reported robbery was part of the pattern, and it did not appear on the community alert, This robbery happened at 11:30 a.m. Monday in the 600 block of West Bittersweet Place in Buena Park - just west of DuSable Lake Shore Drive. Bittersweet Place runs just north of Irving Park Road.
The next happened around 10:10 a.m. Tuesday in the 500 block of East Grand Avenue in Streeterville, according to the police community alert. Further details on this specific robbery were not provided – beyond the general modus operandi in which the robber approaches victims in the public way and forcibly takes their property.
The woman told police she was next to a vehicle when a man approached and grabbed her purse and bag. The man once again drove off in the U-Haul.
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