Around 3pm Friday, Cicero police received a 911 call about an armed robbery at a business in the 5100 block of West Roosevelt Road. Multiple vehicles, with multiple suspects, reportedly approached a courier who was handling cash for a business located there. Approximately $70,000 in cash was believed to have been taken. As officers responded to the scene, Cicero’s special operations unit, based in the town’s Real Time Crime Center, utilized a town-wide camera system, including license plate readers, to identify the suspected vehicles involved. Cicero police initiated a pursuit of two vehicles, which ended in the area of West West End Avenue and North Kostner Avenue in Chicago. During the pursuit, a suspect’s vehicle struck a Chicago police vehicle. There were no reported injuries.

Two suspects were apprehended at that scene, while two others in a white Honda were pursued to an apartment building in the 4400 block of West West End Avenue, where they were also taken into custody. A black Chrysler, also identified by Cicero cameras as being at the scene, was later located by Illinois State Police, traveling westbound on I-290, and was pursued onto I-294 and I-94 into Indiana. Two suspects fled the vehicle from I-94 in Hammond and ran to the Little Calumet River. They surrendered while in the water without further incident. Police now have six suspects in custody and have recovered several bundles of cash, still in bands, from multiple vehicles and on the suspects. The investigation is ongoing.