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Weekend Blotter: Police Shut Down West Side Heroin Market

By Amy Cavanaugh in News on Apr 29, 2012 8:00PM

• A man was stabbed to death in Schaumburg Saturday. [Tribune]

• Nine people were arrested Saturday for running an open-air heroin market. [Tribune]

• There were three shootings in just over two hours in Woodlawn Saturday. [Tribune]

• An Indiana couple extorted $50,000 out of a Chicago man by making threatening phone calls. [Sun-Times]

• Three boys in Indiana were charged with shooting BBs at 11-year-old girls. [Sun-Times]

• A 20-year-old Beverly man was taken to the hospital for a seizure. He later died and a bullet was found in his head. [Tribune]