CHICAGO (WLS) — A man was charged with vandalizing the vehicles of Chicago firefighters’ outside a South Side station, police said.
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Jacob Bogdan, 26 of Chicago, was charged with two felony counts of damage to government property and 19 counts of criminal damage to personal property.
He was arrested on Saturday in the 200-Block of W. Cermak Road in Chinatown.
Bogdan is accused of damaging property a the following locations and times:
– 200-Block of W. Cermak Road on February 5
-100-Block of E. Pershing Road on March 16
-100-Block of E. Pershing Road on April 6
-100-Block of W. 59th Street. on April 10
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Twelve other member vehicles were also damaged on Monday at another fire station near East Pershing Road and South Wabash Avenue in the city’s Bronzeville neighborhood.
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