Murder charge follows woman’s stabbing death
Gustavo Soto, 46, of the 3400 block of West 59th Street, was arrested at his home at 1:19 a.m. Oct. 9, and charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a woman that occurred a few hours earlier at a home in the 5600 block of South St. Louis Avenue.
According to police, Soto and the woman were in a domestic relationship, and an argument between them turned violent when he pulled out a knife and stabbed her about 10:30 p.m. on Oct. 8. He fled the scene and police found the woman after receiving a call about the attack. She was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
Soto is being held without bond in Cook County Jail and is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 28.
Woman accused of pointing gun at boyfriend
Cailin G. O’Brien, 28, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after police responded to a disturbance at noon Oct. 10 at her home in the 5300 block of South Menard Avenue.
Police said O’Brien argued with her 33-year-old boyfriend, pointed a 9mm handgun at him and threatened to shoot him.
Man charged with home invasion across the street from his house
Uriel Saucedo, 34, of the 5900 block of West 64th Street, was charged with home invasion causing injury, battery and three counts of criminal damage to property.
Police responded at 4:13 p.m. Oct. 10 to a report of a burglary in progress on the same block. Police said Saucedo entered the home of a 72-year-old man who lives across the street from him. Saucedo is also accused of kicking the man, breaking a flowerpot and kicking in a basement window.
Officers found Saucedo in the backyard with a rock in his hand and cuts on both arms, police said.
Man charged in attack on CTA employee
Marco G. Castillo, 44, of the 7200 block of South Lawndale Avenue, was charged with aggravated battery of a transit employee after his arrest at 10:46 a.m. Oct. 6 on Midway Airport property in the 5700 block of South Cicero Avenue.
Police said Castillo was identified as a suspect in the battery of a CTA employee at the Roosevelt Road Orange Line stop.
He was also charged with criminal trespass to state land. Police said officers found him smoking a crack pipe on airport property, and he refused several orders to leave the area.
Driver accused of threatening woman after crash
Gloria Jean Robinson, 34, of the 1400 block of West 73rd Place, was charged with assault and other offenses after a crash at 4 p.m. Oct. 6 in the 7200 block of South Kedzie Avenue.
Police said Robinson got out of her car, approached the other driver, a 43-year-old woman, and began screaming obscenities at her. Robinson is also accused of opening the woman’s car door, demanding her money and ID, and taking her keys.
Two charged with drug possession
Nathaniel C. Jackson, 30, of the 1900 block of East 71st Street, and Ashley L. Wade, 37, who has no known address, were arrested together about 8 p.m. Oct. 6 in the 6300 block of South Troy Street.
Police said officers saw the two hunched over and acting suspiciously, so they stopped and questioned them.
Jackson, who had an outstanding Cook County warrant, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia after officers found crack cocaine and a pipe used to smoke it in his pockets, police said.
Wade, who had an outstanding Cook County warrant, was charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance. Police said she was carrying crack cocaine, heroin and drug paraphernalia.
Driver charged with battery in road-rage incident
Xesiria Lee Myers, 54, of the 5500 block of South Archer Avenue, was charged with battery after a road-rage incident at 1:05 p.m. Oct. 7 in the 4200 block of West 59th Street.
A 33-year-old woman told police that after both drivers got out of their cars, Myers pushed her and struck her several times.
Police report information is provided by law enforcement agencies. Charges are not evidence of guilt. They are a record of police actions taken. Persons charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law.
Compiled by Dermot Connolly