UPDATES WITH PERSON IN CUSTODY
A person of interest is in custody in connection with the robbery of an elderly couple early Saturday inside in their Belmont Cragin home on the Northwest Side.
A man was taken into custody in connection with the robbery about 7 p.m. Saturday, according to Chief of Patrol Fred Waller.
About 1:20 a.m., a robber climbed through the back window of the home in the 5100 block of West Wellington, Chicago Police said.
He then approached one of the residents, an 84-year-old man and implied he had a weapon, police said. The man and his 81-year-old wife handed over a checkbook, jewelry and wallet with $30 in cash before the robber ran away, police said.
He was described as a white man standing between 6-feet and 6-foot-2, police said.
Just a night earlier, an 81-year-old man and a 77-year-old woman were assaulted during a home invasion and robbery in the same neighborhood. One or more male attackers broke into a home in the 5400 block of West Henderson, attacking the elderly residents and stealing a purse before running away.
A community alert issued Friday warned residents about a series of recent burglary home invasions in the Belmont Cragin and Irving Park neighborhoods.
On Saturday night, police spokesman Antony Guglielmi said investigators had connected several incidents in the area, but did not know whether the man in custody was linked to those as well.