Totally harmless...
Posted on 11/27/2011 5:47:21 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Two men dressed as women were charged with mugging a teenage girl Friday as she walked near Lincoln Park Zoo, only minutes after they allegedly assaulted another pedestrian and tried to take his wallet, prosecutors said.
Brandon Arnold, 24, of the 6800 block of South Aberdeen Street, and roommate Michael Burns, 21, appeared in Cook County Central Bond Court charged with robbery and attempted armed robbery, both sporting long, styled hair and gray leggings. Their bond was set at $100,000 each.
Court records say the pair approached a 16-year-old girl as she walked past an alley in the 2300 block of North Lincoln Park West around 2:24 p.m.
Arnold asked the girl for directions, then raised a can of pepper spray and said, "Give me your camera or I'll mace you." The girl gave up her camera, then Arnold allegedly demanded the girl's iPhone and ran off with Brandon down Fullerton Avenue.
Five minutes earlier, prosecutors said Arnold and Burns had attacked a man about half a mile away in the 2600 block of North Cannon Drive.
The victim said one of the men grabbed him from behind and tried to take his wallet, but the man was able to wrestle free.
"When I turned around, one was holding the can of mace, but it must have jammed or it didn't work," the victim said.
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Better hide yo wife, hide yo kids.....
they probably fit in, depending on the neighborhood
Totally harmless...
Interesting...there was a cross dressing pair who used pepper spray at a Home Depot yesterday when caught shoplifting.
Lincoln Park is an upscale middle-class area, haven to a lot of singles, yuppies, college kids (DePaul University) and night life...unfortunately it attracts trouble because it’s upscale and the main “L” line across the city runs through it, and many of the residents have all the street smarts of a bug.
Escapees from the OWS encampment or just some fine Amish yutes?
68th and Aberdeen is in Englewood, so they sure ain’t OWSers (who would be easy pickins for ‘em).
Imagine, outside of Chicago of course, two queer muggers threatening a CCW victim. I’ve got mace say they ... I’ve got a big gun and you lose ... bang, bang, bang ...
I’ll the police had a real hard time identifying these two pervert perps. LOL!
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