A pizza delivery driver was assaulted and robbed early this morning on Dodge Avenue in Evanston.
That story tops today’s daily crime bulleting from Evanston police.
Robbery
1700 Dodge
A pizza delivery driver told police he was making a delivery in the 1700 block of Dodge Avenue about 1:35 this morning. It turned out the address he’d been given was a vacant lot, and as he walked down the sidewalk trying to check it, he walked past a man who hit him on the side of the head, causing the delivery driver to fall to the ground, sustaining a cut to his left knee.
The man who’d hit him, described as a 30- to 40-year-old black male with a slim build and short facial hair wearing a blue jacket, grabbed the driver’s delivery bag containing three pizzas valued at $65 and fled westbound through yards on the block.
Criminal damage
Howard at Custer
Someone reportedly sprayed graffiti on a bus stop at Custer Avenue and Howard Street shortly after noon on Wednesday and then fled in a 2013 Ford.
1700 Dodge
Someone damaged the rear window of a 2005 Dodge parked on the street in the 1700 block of Dodge Avenue between6 p.m. Tuesday and 8;30 a.m. Wednesday.
Theft
600 Main
Someone stole a red Novara bicycle that was secured to a bike rack in the 600 block of Main Street between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. on Wednesday.
1100 Chicago
Somebody stole liquor from a supermarket in the 1100 block of Chicago Avenue at 8:39 p.m. Tuesday.