Police have arrested a 26-year-old Woodlawn man and charged him with participating in a cluster of armed robberies and home invasions early Thursday morning on the Southwest Side.
Kentrell Brown faces three counts of armed robbery and single counts of home invasion with a firearm, carjacking and armed kidnapping, police said.
Police said Brown participated in four robberies. Two of these robberies, at separate addresses in the West Lawn areaincluding home invasions. In one of the home invasions, in the 6200 block of South Kolin Avenue, a police report states Brown was allegedly robbing a grandmother and granddaughter at gunpoint when two men came downstairs and confronted him. No one was injured in the resulting exchange of gunfire, police said.
Brown was arrested after he and another suspect drove to a rail yard just off the Stevenson Expressway on South Pulaski Road in an attempt to escape pursuing law enforcement and pushed a rail yard worker out of a truck, according to a police report contained in court records. Officers eventually arrested Brown near the intersection of West 47th Street and South Drake Avenue, the report said.
Brown appeared Saturday for a detention hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, records show. Cook County Judge Caroline Glennon-Goodman ordered him held pending trial and cited the previous parole judge as one of the factors that motivated her decision.
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