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Man steals phone and threatens with a gun near Foster and BroadwayChicago IL

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W Foster Ave & N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640

According to the dispatch call, a male Hispanic stole a phone near Foster Avenue and Broadway in Chicago. The suspect, described as about 5'3 or 5'4 tall wearing a tan jacket and blue jeans, implied he had a gun. He fled on foot in an unknown direction. The victim is at the nearby BP gas station.

Audio|Heard on: Chicago Police Department Zone 11
Listen to dispatch call
04:6
Transcript:
00:00
All right, guys, for my unit 1020, some of the cast on available.
00:04
Coming over as a person would have gone Broadway and Foster Avenue, (name withheld) is the caller.
00:09
The only thing we got was that a male Hispanic about 5'3–5'4.
00:13
We're in a tan coat, blue jeans.
00:18
Said that the individual stole his phone, refused to return it to him, said he also have a gun on his person.
00:28
Coming in details to follow, not the further.
00:32
0, 2, 3, we're going to go with that.
00:36
23, okay 10 4, thank you.
00:40
063 David, so I found it.
00:43
David, get your roll in, 104.
00:46
63, boy, you can show us going.
00:50
Boy, got your rolls as well.
00:56
All 2, Sam, any direction of flight?
01:00
All 2, Sam, no.
01:03
The only thing, I'm assuming, I'm thinking that (name withheld) is the person that may have a gun on him,
01:10
or he's not saying if the male Hispanic has a gun.
01:13
I don't know, the ticket is confusing, but no, no direction of flight.
01:23
2031, host with assist on that two.
01:27
31, I got your roll in as well, 2.4.
01:34
913.
01:36
913.
01:38
Can you run an Illinois handicap place for this corner?
01:42
Go with it.
01:46
334-954?
01:48
Bye-bye.
01:59
13, it's not a red fort, is it?
02:04
No, how did you have been?
02:07
Yeah, I'm ready.
02:10
Three George, Nora, Eddie, Charlie,
02:13
one, two, Zebra,
02:15
65, George,
02:16
206, 805.
02:20
Bye.
02:26
13, it's a Chevy Avalanche, right?
02:30
Right, right.
02:35
All right, guys, my partner call got a better understanding of what's going on, but (name withheld) states that the male Hispanic about 5'3–5'4, 10,
02:45
whose jeans looked like he had a gun, did not state that he's seen a gun.
02:56
And it looks like the male Hispanic did flee the scene,
03:00
unknown direction, but your caller is at the BP gas station on Winona.
03:10
A 1913 for that Chevy Avalanche, silver in color, pickup.
03:16
It's expired.
03:17
It's 725 out of Northbrook.
03:20
I put the info on the ticket for you.
03:25
All right, right, thank you.
03:32
2.63 Boy, we got in contact with the victim.
03:35
He's at the gas station and the BP gas station.
03:40
He said the offender is a younger Hispanic male with facial hair,
03:45
tan jacket, blue jeans, suggested that he had a gun in his pocket.
03:51
All right, so the male Hispanic implied that he had a gun.
03:55
Again, the description of him was a male Hispanic about 5'6.
03:59
Last year, he was wearing a tan jacket jeans.
04:00
He had facial hairs.
04:03
He fled in an unknown direction.

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W Foster Ave & N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640
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