Chicago Boy Charged with 7 Armed Robberies in Less Than an Hour

According to reports, a 14-year-old boy in Chicago has been charged with 12 felony counts of armed robbery as well as two misdemeanor charges of criminal trespass to a vehicle, and battery.

The teen, whose name has not been released, was originally accused of committing armed robbery a whopping seven times across the city in only 45 minutes.

How is that even possible?? That would be a robbery every six and a half minutes, which sounds like quite the feat, even for a skilled criminal.

WLS-TV reports that the boy alleged committed the crimes between 1:50 a.m. and 2:35 a.m., and a dozen people were allegedly robbed in those incidents.

Incident times and locations are as follows:

  • 1:50 a.m. – 1100 block of West Taylor; a 29-year-old man.
  • 1:55 a.m. – 1100 block of South Canal; a 38-year-old woman and 45-year-old man.
  • 2 a.m. – 700 block of West Taylor; a 36-year-old woman and 24-year-old man.
  • 2:20 a.m. – 2400 block of South Canal; 28-year-old woman.
  • 2:24 a.m. – 2500 block of South Halsted; 44-year-old man.
  • 2:30 a.m. – 1100 block of West Chicago; a 41-year-old man and 39-year-old man.
  • 2:35 a.m. – 1200 block of N. Milwaukee (14th District); 30-year-old man 31-year-old man.

Several hours after the incidents, the unnamed teen was arrested and identified as one of numerous suspects in the robbery spree.

The victims ranged from age 29 to 44, and included eight men and three women.

The investigation is ongoing and no other information has been released at the time of this publication.

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