Chicagoist Weekend Blotter

By Shannon in News on Jan 21, 2007 8:00PM

Let's wrap up the weekend and get our snack & drink on for that Bears game!

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An Amber Alert was put out Saturday for four children from Elkhart, Indiana. Their father, 30-year-old Jerry D. White, abducted them and their mother, Kimberly Walker, who is White's ex-girlfriend. Authorities believe White may be headed for Chicago; he used to live here and still has relatives here. Two cars connected to the kidnapped have been found, but with no trace of the suspect or victims.

Three muggers robbed the son of Chicago Police Supt. Philip Cline on Thursday night. Timothy Cline, himself an employee of a federal drug trafficking task force, was relieved of his cell phone and some cash at around 9:30 p.m. on a westbound Blue Line train. The three suspects, two men and a woman, were arrested Friday morning and the cell phone recovered. A police spokesperson said the robbers didn't even know the man's status, nor his father's.

A drag race went horribly wrong on the South Side Sunday morning. At around 3:35 a.m., Sherrond Worlds and an unidentified passenger were racing another car on 87th Street when Worlds lost control and plowed through a tree, a fence, and finally a garage, where the car burst into flames. Worlds exited the vehicle but the 30-year-old passenger wasn't so lucky, burning to death inside the car.

Lastly, a man from Crown Point, Indiana, attacked his wife and a teenage relative with a ceremonial sword. Rodney Bloom used a 3-foot machete-like sword to cut his wife on the legs, hands and back during an argument. A 14-year-old relative was injured on the hands after trying to help the wife. A call placed to the residence turned up a woman who asked never to be called again. Fine, be that way. We're just loving CBS's little graphic ourselves. We can see the newsroom now: "All right, people, we finally have a sword attack! Go with it!!"