Man accused of hate crime after threatening mail carrier

A Northwest Side man is accused of calling a mail carrier a racial slur and ordering his dog to attack him outside a Laundromat.
Cosovic Ahmmed, 27, of the 5000 block of North Keeler Avenue, is charged with felony hate crime, felony stalking and misdemeanor aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He was also cited for not having a dog license.
Ahmmed was arrested around noon Tuesday in the 5000 block of North Pulaski Road after officers responded to a call of a man threatening a mail carrier with a dog. The officers saw Ahmmed standing outside with the mail carrier, who told the police he was threatening him.
The carrier told police he was trying to deliver mail to a Laundromat at the Pulaski address when he saw Ahmmed inside the business with his dog. Ahmmed came out and “shoved the victim’s mail cart’’.
The carrier told him the cart was government property and not to touch it, but Ahmmed used a racial slur for an African-American and told the dog to “sic him’’ .
Ahmmed denied the allegations and assured police he was “not going to do anything’’ .
But after officers left, he confronted the carrier -- again using the racial slur--and said he hated African-Americans and told his dog to attack the carrier. A witness called 911.

2 in custody after armed robbery on NW Side

A Chicago police officer was injured this morning after she was bitten by a dog during an armed robbery investigation that nabbed two people in the North Park neighborhood.
The female officer was taken to Swedish Covenant Hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
The officer is a canine unit officer but the animal that attacked her is not believed to be her police dog.
The officer was responding with other police to the area on the Northwest Side at about 3:49 a.m. when a woman was robbed at gun point on the 4500 block of North Christiana Avenue in the Albany Park neighborhood.
After robbing the woman, the two robbers fled and a police called for other units to canvas the area. The canine unit was dispatched to search the area.
One of the people was tracked to the 5400 block of North Spaulding Avenue in the North Park neighborhood where he was placed in custody.
On the 5300 block of North Kimball Avenue, found the person armed with a handgun. During the search, the person exchanged gunfire with police but no one was injured in the shooting,

Alert issued for man approaching girls in Albany Park, North Park

Police have issued an alert about a man in his 20s who has been exposing himself and trying to grab girls in the Albany Park and North Park neighborhoods.
The man has stopped girls after school and tried to start a conversation, “only to then expose himself or grab at the girls as they flee from him,”
The incidents happened in the 4900 block of North Troy Street and the 3800 block of West Leland Avenue in the Albany Park neighborhood, and the 3200 block of West Catalpa Avenue in the North Park neighborhood.
Police described the man as Hispanic, between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-10 and about 140 pounds. In one incident, he was wearing a gray hoodie over a blue hoodie; in another, he was wearing a white sweater and blue jeans. He has light skin and hair that is short and dark brown or black.