Crime & Safety
Police Search For 2 People After Man Robbed In Elgin
According to police, one of the two robbers took out what looked like a knife and demanded the man's belongings during the incident.
ELGIN, IL — The Elgin Police Department said detectives are investigating after officers were called to the area of Riverside Drive and Prairie Street at 9 p.m. Monday for a reported robbery. According to the police department, a man was walking in the area when two people came up to him and demanded he hand over his personal belongings.
The robbers are described as a white male with a medium build, and a tear drop tattoo on his face, and a black male with a medium build, who was wearing a hooded sweatshirt. According to police, one of the robbers took out what looked like a knife and demanded the man's belongings. Once the victim gave them some of his belongings, the two robbers ran off, police added.
No injuries were reported.
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Police ask anyone with information on this incident to call 847-289-2600, or text a tip (can be anonymous) to 847411 and include ElginPD in the beginning of the text.
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