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Minneapolis police arrested six juvenile suspects between the ages of 11 and 14 after responding to a series of armed robberies on Tuesday, which led to a frantic police chase and crashes on the interstate. Several of the minor suspects had multiple prior arrests, and police said authorities needed to take "urgent action" to correct their violent patterns, as reported by Fox 9. On Tuesday around 11:30 am, officers responded to the first of three reported robberies in the 5100 block of 41st Ave South. Shortly after responding to the scene, police were alerted to a second robbery on the...

Former President Donald Trump traveled to a gang-ravaged Denver suburb Friday to announce plans to invoke a 226-year-old law to dismantle and deport illegal immigrant criminals across the US. The Republican nominee, 78, told supporters in Aurora, Colo. he would go after the Venezuelan gang “Tren de Aragua” (TdA), whose members have infiltrated the city of just under 400,000. At least 10 soldiers of the violent prison gang have been arrested in Aurora, where criminals have wreaked havoc and even taken over apartment complexes. “What are they doing to Colorado? They’re ruining your state,” Trump asked at the top of...

CHICAGO — Chicago police were called to the scene of an apparent train heist at a rail yard on the city’s West Side on Friday afternoon, resulting in at least six arrests. SkyCam 9 was over the scene near Lake Street and Lockwood Avenue in Garfield Park around 4:30 p.m. when several people could be seen pulling items from the freight train’s cars. The group appeared to have gotten several train cars open and were pulling items from within.

At this time, an estimated 50 to 150 people or more are actively looting and breaking into a cargo train on the west side of Chicago, Illinois. Police have been dispatched to the scene to address the ongoing incident, with reports of individuals stealing boxes of items, possibly including TVs, from the train's containers. Witnesses describe the situation as chaotic, with looters working quickly to empty the cargo. This is still a developing story. VIDEO AT LINK......................

At least 50 thieves descended on a freight train in Chicago's West Side to ransack whatever items they could get their hands on. The group of wayward opportunists swarmed the Union Pacific train on Friday to steal multiple boxes before officers arrived. The robbery occurred just before 4pm in the 400 block of North Lamon Avenue in the South Austin neighborhood. The massive heist forced the train to suspend its operations. In a statement on X.com, Metra said that 'train service is temporarily suspended due to ongoing police activity near Kedzie.' The statement continued: 'Metra encourages customers to seek alternate...

Six young women bludgeoned two people with a hammer and robbed one of them in a brutal attack over the summer inside a Bronx tattoo studio, cops said this week. The baby-faced crew used the tool to bash a 29-year-old man in the arm, before punching him in the face inside Flow Gangsta Tattoo on Third Avenue near East 152nd Street in Mott Haven minutes before 9 a.m. Aug. 17, authorities said. Then they pummeled a 41-year-old woman, battered her with the hammer, and snatched her cell phone and credit card, police said. The woman was taken to Lincoln Medical...

Traffic was shut down on Interstate 65 in Autauga County[Alabama] Friday afternoon after a chase involving a woman wanted in a shooting in Texas, officials said. The chase and standoff started after the woman taken into custody in Autauga County allegedly shot someone when she pursued her ex-boyfriend to the Bellaire, Texas police station, officials said. According to Bellaire police , dispatchers received a 911 call at 2:30 a.m. Friday on a report of a woman in a Mercedes SUV following a group of individuals in a Ford truck. The occupants of the Ford reported that the female was the...

A 17-year-old boy is in custody and police are searching for three other suspects after masked gunmen opened fire at a school bus with children on board in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, officials announced Friday. Jaki White-Marshall, 17, of Coatesville, was arrested and charged as an adult with aggravated assault and other offenses. The incident occurred on Thursday, Oct. 10, around 2:30 p.m

The father of an allegedly kidnapped 14-year-old girl is in jail in Lonoke County, Arkansas, after a shooting that left the reported kidnapper dead. The father said he found the man with his daughter, and a confrontation broke out as he tried to rescue her. Lonoke County Sheriff John Staley said in a Facebook post that his deputies received a call on October 8 about a missing 14-year-old girl. As the deputies were en route to the home of the missing girl, they received a call regarding a shooting. Sheriff’s office officials said they received the call of the missing...

LOS ANGELES - A group of teens robbed a 7-Eleven in Hollywood earlier this week, leaving a store employee injured. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the robbery occurred shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday at the 7-Eleven off Wilcox Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard. Police said that a group of approximately eight suspects, believed to be between the ages of 16 and 20, entered the store and started grabbing and opening bags of chips. The teens were then confronted by the store clerk before they were seen on video assaulting the employee. The suspects ran from the store, with one...

An employee at a cannabis dispensary in North Portland is accused of fatally shooting two people who attempted to rob the business last week. Jason Steiner, 34, turned himself in to Portland police Wednesday and was booked into Multnomah County’s downtown jail on allegations of two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of unlawful use of a weapon. Last week’s shooting happened just after 9:30 p.m. on Thursday. The North Portland store had been targeted by at least four previous armed robberies since 2022, state records show. In June of this year, one employee was working when five people...

An unpopular Illinois, Dolton mayor was booed out of a town meeting then sued the other officials for hosting it without her. So-called America's 'worst mayor' Tiffany Henyard arrived at Monday's village board meeting an hour late and was met with outraged residents, reported WGN. Despite the meeting's location being moved to the local park district facilities after Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s Office found Dolton had violated the state’s Open Meetings Act, Henyard tried to hold a separate board meeting at Village Hall, according to WLS.

CHICAGO — A Chicago alderman is “p***ed off to the highest of pisstivity” after learning that a senior public safety advisor in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration was arrested on Tuesday on an outstanding warrant. As a $103,488 per year “senior adviser on community safety,” Alyxandra Goodwin, 33, helped lead the administration’s charge against ShotSpotter, but she wound up on the other side of the law Tuesday afternoon in the 6600 block of South Cornell. That’s where Chicago cops encountered Goodwin and arrested her for an outstanding DuPage County warrant, according to internal CPD communications. Goodwin appeared in warrant court on...

Authorities are investigating a Miami millionaire’s alleged plot to kill his estranged wife several times over a period of years by hiring hit men and poisoning her with fentanyl, police say. “I’ve been in law enforcement for 27 years, and something like this … it seemed like something out of a Hollywood movie, but this was unfortunately real life,” Pinecrest Police Department Chief Jason Cohen told Fox News Digital. On June 23, Alessandra Pino, 26, called 911 and said somebody had just pointed a gun at her as her mother was pulling into the driveway of their house. “Oh my...

The people of Chicago know about Mayor Brandon Johnson’s panic attacks. He just can’t handle the job. And now the people of his city, including the property taxpayers, are about to have a series of panic attacks all their own. He’s unleashed two curses to hound them and haunt them. They’re already suffering from violent crime and he’s also killing the public schools that is turning out yet another generation of young people without future, without hope. The Chicago Public Schools can’t educate 300,000 students, most of whom are black and brown, all of whom are poor. They can’t read...

With big box retailers clamping down hard on retail theft, NYC's thieves who never seem to wind up in jail have turned their attention to a new target... the homes of the law abiding.

Threats to safety in the U.S. come in many forms, from public health crises and natural disasters to mass shootings and traffic accidents. Aside from the types of hazards that can cause physical harm, taking out an unaffordable second mortgage, forgoing health insurance or even falling victim to identity theft are also ways people run into danger. One big worry for many people right now is the cost of inflation, which threatens Americans’ financial safety. No one can avoid all danger, however, and we take on a certain level of risk based on where we choose to live. Some cities...

The mayor of a city in southern Mexico has been murdered less than a week after taking office, authorities said Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks on politicians in the violence-plagued Latin American country. The killing of Chilpancingo mayor Alejandro Arcos "fills us with indignation," Guerrero state governor Evelyn Salgado wrote on social media, without providing further details of the circumstances. Local media reported that Arcos was decapitated, but there has been no official confirmation. Reuters reported that photos circulating on WhatsApp showed a severed head on top of what appeared to be Arcos' vehicle, but the news...

New York City police are searching for five suspects wanted in a "gang assault" on former New York Gov. David Paterson and his 20-year-old stepson on Manhattan's Upper East Side, according to officials. The attack, which unfolded around 8:35 p.m. Friday by 96th Street and 2nd Avenue, began as a "verbal altercation" between the suspects and the 70-year-old former governor and his stepson, the NYPD said.