Police have arrested a 26-year-old man from Woodlawn and accused him of participating in a cluster of armed robberies and home invasions early Thursday morning on the Southwest Side.
Kentrell Brown faces three felony charges 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 those robberies, at separate addresses in the West Lawn neighborhood, included home invasions. In one of the home invasions, on the 6200 block of South Kolin Avenue, a police report states that Brown was allegedly robbing a grandmother and grandson 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 pretrial detention hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse, records show. Cook County Judge Caroline Glennon-Goodman ordered him held pending trial and listed previous parole violations as one of the factors motivating her order.