A 32-year-old man with a number of prior housebreaking convictions has been charged with 5 residential break-ins and an aggravated theft carried out throughout a number of North Aspect neighborhoods.
Malcolm Junious is accused of committing 5 separate crimes between June 15 and October 21, together with a theft that focused a lady inside her residence, in response to court docket information. Decide James Murphy III ordered him detained after prosecutors famous his intensive prison historical past, which incorporates a number of felony housebreaking convictions.
The primary reported incident occurred on June 15 within the 800 block of West Cuyler Avenue, when victims found a handgun, a Nintendo Swap, $10,000 in money, and $75,000 in jewellery lacking. Surveillance footage confirmed the burglar carrying a white clipboard, and a CPD officer who noticed the video acknowledged Junious from a previous arrest. Investigators later tied Junious’ cellphone to the housebreaking by pawnshop information and the machine’s GPS information.
Detectives started to suspect Junious was liable for a string of burglaries, and on October 17, a court docket licensed a “pen register” for Junious’s cellphone, prosecutors stated. That’s a surveillance device that information numbers dialed or referred to as from a particular cellphone and tracks its basic exercise in actual time. Utilizing the information, detectives noticed Junious’s cellphone touring towards Chicago on October 21, prosecutors stated in a detention submitting. That afternoon, a number of burglaries have been reported throughout the North Aspect.
Within the 1600 block of West Rascher Avenue, a 32-year-old lady reported {that a} masked man confronted her inside her residence, claimed to have a gun, and warned her to not “make” him harm her. One other lady heard the sufferer screaming and started calling 911, however the intruder knocked the cellphone from her hand, stomped on it, and fled with a jewellery field, prosecutors stated.
Cops monitoring Junious by his cellphone and through license plate readers situated his Kia close to the 1400 block of West Ardmore Avenue, prosecutors stated. However they overlooked it for about half-hour.
Throughout that point, a lady returned residence within the 1500 block of West Ardmore Avenue to search out somebody had climbed exterior scaffolding to enter her house. The intruder stole a backpack, jewellery, watches, and a memento of her deceased cat.
Inside two hours, one other resident within the 5300 block of North Paulina Avenue reported that somebody entered by an unlocked rear window and took a MacBook, a Bluetooth speaker, and a Nintendo Swap.
Officers ultimately situated the Kia once more because it headed south on Lake Shore Drive in Streeterville. Utilizing a helicopter and floor items, they adopted it till Junious received out within the 7100 block of South Coles Avenue, prosecutors stated. The police discovered Junious hiding underneath a barbecue grill cowl on a again stairwell. They stated he had the proceeds from the burglaries in his possession.
Prosecutors charged Junious with 5 counts of residential housebreaking and one rely of aggravated theft.
His earlier convictions embrace residential burglaries in Wrigleyville in 2020.
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