{"id":551551,"date":"2026-01-29T12:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/551551\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:33:13","slug":"2-charged-in-attempted-armed-robbery-of-ccl-holder-in-belmont-cragin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/551551\/","title":{"rendered":"2 charged in attempted armed robbery of CCL holder in Belmont Cragin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were charged, and police said they tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/chicago-shooting-ccl-holder-belmont-cragin-attempted-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">rob a Concealed Carry License holder<\/a>\u00a0early Tuesday morning in Chicago&#8217;s Belmont Cragin neighborhood.\u00a0    <\/p>\n<p>Police said Teryon Pittman, 39, and Roberts Cooks Jr., 23, were charged with felony counts of armed robbery with a firearm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, Chicago police said a 39-year-old man was getting out of his car in the 5200 block of West Montana Street when two men walked up with a gun and demanded his belongings. Police said the victim, who has a valid CCL, fired multiple shots at the men. One was struck multiple times in the legs, CPD said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded and took the two men into custody.\u00a0 Cooks was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition.<\/p>\n<p>Cooks and Pittman are expected in court for a detention hearing on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were charged, and police said they tried to rob a Concealed Carry License holder\u00a0early Tuesday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":547483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,7272],"class_list":{"0":"post-551551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-robbery"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115978410743789340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}