Chicagoist Weekend Blotter
- Hinsdale police are on the hunt for a driver of a black sedan that pulled up to a McDonald's drive-through window, whipped at handful of change at the cashier's face, then drove away.
- And you thought your last date went badly -- a Franklin Park man was robbed by three masked men in the middle of the night after the woman he had been dating let them inside his home.
- Two Chicago tactical officers captured three gang members armed with handguns and an assault weapon, and are being credited with likely preventing a homicide.
- An Elgin man was arrested after allegedly stealing 120 cans of Red Bull from a Meijer grocery store.
- Police have finally caught the Chicago man they say kidnapped a 15-year-old Cicero boy and held him for $450,000 ransom back in April.
- The new head of the local Drug Enforcement Agency says he plans to go after Mexican drug trafficking going on all over the Chicago suburbs.
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