(Sun Times Wire) Gregory “Bowlegs” Chester “embraced the murder and mayhem” wreaked over a decade by the Hobos street gang. He “contributed to the carnage,” U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp said. And he cannot wash his hands of the blood spilled amid the gang’s reign of terror in Chicago. Still, the judge stopped short…
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We know one of the leaders of Chicago’s notorious street gangs definitely didn’t reach out to a Cleveland pastor to arrange a “sit down.” Earlier this month, a federal jury found the reputed leader of the so-called “Hobos”, Gregory “Bowlegs” Chester and six members,” guilty of a racketeering conspiracy and five murders. Feds described the…
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Div 9 01-06-17 from Cook County Sheriff on Vimeo.
A video released Friday night shows the chaotic brawl at Cook County Jail that sent five inmates to the hospital.
At about 1:30 p.m. Friday, a fight broke out among detainees housed in Division 9, the jail’s super-maximum security division, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s office.
Ambulances were called to the scene at the jail for reports of multiple stab wounds. Paramedics transported five victims who were believed to be seriously injured to area hospitals, a law enforcement source confirmed.
The injuries included puncture wounds, said Sophia Ansari, a sheriff’s office spokesperson.
While the sheriff’s office continues to investigate what started the fights and the weapons used in them, the newly released 1½-minute video shows the melee unfold.
About two dozen inmates were in the block’s common area when one man stabs another man on the block’s steps, the video shows.
Following the initial stabbing, a fight breaks out, with inmates throwing punches and stabbing other inmates. Five seconds into the video, one inmate punches another inmate into a concrete column. As he lays there seemingly unconscious, another inmate kicks him in the head.
Seventy seconds into the video, correctional officers storm the room, taking control of the scene. The fight was quickly under control by sheriff’s deputies, Ansari said.
Four of the injured inmates are in Cook County Jail charged with murder and one is charged with armed robbery.
The division is secure and no staff were injured, Ansari said.
The stabbings follows a hostage standoff and stabbing in June at the jail and an October brawl at the jail that sent 10 people — including two correctional officers — to the hospital.
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A federal jury on Wednesday convicted six reputed leaders of the violent Hobos street gang of racketeering conspiracy charges alleging the gang carried out a slew of killings, kidnappings, robberies and shootings over the course of a decade. After a marathon 15-week trial that featured hundreds of witnesses and four days of closing arguments, the…
