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As WBBM Newsradio's Bernie Tafoya reports, authorities said Darrion Grossley, 22, was a one-man crime spree, terrorizing the area of Madison Street and Pulaski Road.

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During a bond hearing Thursday afternoon, prosecutors said Grossley entered three businesses on three separate dates holding a black semiautomatic handgun and wearing a black mask in the 4000 block of West Madison Street.

LISTEN: WBBM Newsradio's Bernie Tafoya reports
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When he went into a nail salon two days after Christmas, Grossley allegedly forced a male and two female employees to the back of the room. He told the man to ask the women in Vietnamese to take off their clothes, prosecutors said.

He then forced the women to perform oral sex on him as he held a gun to them, according to prosecutors. Grossley then took $2,700 from the cash register and fled.

On Christmas Eve, Grossley went into K-B World and took $200 from the cash register as well as $25 from the store's security officer, prosecutors said. Earlier this month, on Jan. 5, he went to a shoe store where he swiped two employees' cell phones and took $10 from one.

Grossley also took $200 from the cash register and when he saw another employee walking into the store, he hit that person with his weapon and took $100 from them, prosecutors said.

He was arrested on Jan. 17 about 1:30 p.m. when Harrison Area detectives assigned to the crimes were in the 4000 block of West Madison Street and spotted Grossley, who matched the description of the offender. As the detectives attempted to stop Grossley, he immediately ran, according to police.

A short foot pursuit ensued and with the assistance of Harrison District officers, Grossley was taken into custody, police said. He had a black ski mask on him when he was caught, police said.

Surveillance cameras had captured Grossley in the act in the two most recent cases and witnesses from each of the incidents have identified him, prosecutors said.

Grossley has been charged with eight counts of armed robbery with a firearm, two counts of criminal sexual assault with a firearm, and one count of aggravated assault with a firearm.

He put his hand to his face and cried when Judge Jackie Portman ordered him held without bond.

Grossley has a record of several minor arrests and one misdemeanor conviction dating back six years, but he has never been convicted of a felony, the Chicago Tribune reported.

A police source tells WBBM Newsradio that investigators are now looking into whether Grossley, of the 4000 block of West Maypole Avenue, was responsible for any other crimes.

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(The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.)

From as far away as Milwaukee, they come to Kilbourn and Maypole Avenues.

In some circles this West Side intersection enjoys almost legendary status; not for any landmarks; not for any cultural sites, but for drugs.

'White heroin, crack, marijuana, cocaine, whatever. It's been said we've got the best drugs in town,' one officer said ruefully.

But on Thursday the strongest thing you could get was a coconut snow cone.

Area residents, frustrated with increasing drug sales and a territorial war they say has ravaged their neighborhood, seized three notorious drug intersections in West Garfield Park, including Kilbourn and Maypole.

Neighborhood residents used lemonade and snow cone stands-fragments of white-picket-fence America-to protest the rampant sales and accompanying violence at one of the inner city's most active drug markets.

The unusual demonstration was organized by the West Garfield Park Neighborhood Partnership, a coalition of West Side community activist groups who say drugs have destroyed their streets. The stands will be set up from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday as well.

The nearby Harrison District police station has lent an officer and patrol car to protect the stands for the duration of the effort, which is also being staged at Kostner Avenue and Washington Boulevard, and at Keeler and West End.

'Get your lemonade here!' activists hollered from their stands, which were set up amid signs that said: 'Drug Dealers Must Go,' 'Hang with the Snow-Cone Posse' and 'Chill Out with Lemonade.'

Glenda Cunningham-Ross, who helped organize the protest, did not hesitate when asked to characterize the area's drug problem.

'It's bad,' she said. 'On a scale of 1 to 10, we've got a 10.'

She said the severity of the problem forced her group to add this approach to the anti-drug marches, sweeps and protests already in its arsenal.

'We need to show them that we are sick and tired of the blatant drug-dealing in our streets,' said Cunningham-Ross. 'We're sending a message that we're going to take back our streets. We're the ones who are going to be selling something today.'

John Ware, another organizer, said the coalition had put aside fears of retaliation from drug dealers.

'It's true that the fear question is a very real problem,' he said. 'But I'm not worried about what's going to happen to me if I do this. I'm more worried about what's going to happen if I don't do this'.

Neighbors say the community policing program in the neighboring Marquette Police District, to the southeast, and the Austin District, on the west, is driving drug dealers into their area.

Ware spoke without contempt for the program, a throwback to a time when more police officers walked the streets, and said he hoped it would soon come to the Harrison District.

'We as neighbors call the police, we call 911, but we don't get any response,' he said. 'We asked the police about it, and they said they were overwhelmed.'

Sgt. Clarence Thomas, of the Harrison District, denied his officers are overwhelmed, 'but we could use all the help we could get.'

As WBBM Newsradio's Bernie Tafoya reports, authorities said Darrion Grossley, 22, was a one-man crime spree, terrorizing the area of Madison Street and Pulaski Road.

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During a bond hearing Thursday afternoon, prosecutors said Grossley entered three businesses on three separate dates holding a black semiautomatic handgun and wearing a black mask in the 4000 block of West Madison Street.

LISTEN: WBBM Newsradio's Bernie Tafoya reports
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15116062/2012/01/mp3_bc__carts_spree-report1-jan19.mp3

When he went into a nail salon two days after Christmas, Grossley allegedly forced a male and two female employees to the back of the room. He told the man to ask the women in Vietnamese to take off their clothes, prosecutors said.

He then forced the women to perform oral sex on him as he held a gun to them, according to prosecutors. Grossley then took $2,700 from the cash register and fled.

On Christmas Eve, Grossley went into K-B World and took $200 from the cash register as well as $25 from the store's security officer, prosecutors said. Earlier this month, on Jan. 5, he went to a shoe store where he swiped two employees' cell phones and took $10 from one.

Grossley also took $200 from the cash register and when he saw another employee walking into the store, he hit that person with his weapon and took $100 from them, prosecutors said.

He was arrested on Jan. 17 about 1:30 p.m. when Harrison Area detectives assigned to the crimes were in the 4000 block of West Madison Street and spotted Grossley, who matched the description of the offender. As the detectives attempted to stop Grossley, he immediately ran, according to police.

A short foot pursuit ensued and with the assistance of Harrison District officers, Grossley was taken into custody, police said. He had a black ski mask on him when he was caught, police said.

Surveillance cameras had captured Grossley in the act in the two most recent cases and witnesses from each of the incidents have identified him, prosecutors said.

Grossley has been charged with eight counts of armed robbery with a firearm, two counts of criminal sexual assault with a firearm, and one count of aggravated assault with a firearm.

He put his hand to his face and cried when Judge Jackie Portman ordered him held without bond.

Grossley has a record of several minor arrests and one misdemeanor conviction dating back six years, but he has never been convicted of a felony, the Chicago Tribune reported.

A police source tells WBBM Newsradio that investigators are now looking into whether Grossley, of the 4000 block of West Maypole Avenue, was responsible for any other crimes.

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(The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.)

From as far away as Milwaukee, they come to Kilbourn and Maypole Avenues.

In some circles this West Side intersection enjoys almost legendary status; not for any landmarks; not for any cultural sites, but for drugs.

'White heroin, crack, marijuana, cocaine, whatever. It's been said we've got the best drugs in town,' one officer said ruefully.

But on Thursday the strongest thing you could get was a coconut snow cone.

Area residents, frustrated with increasing drug sales and a territorial war they say has ravaged their neighborhood, seized three notorious drug intersections in West Garfield Park, including Kilbourn and Maypole.

Neighborhood residents used lemonade and snow cone stands-fragments of white-picket-fence America-to protest the rampant sales and accompanying violence at one of the inner city's most active drug markets.

The unusual demonstration was organized by the West Garfield Park Neighborhood Partnership, a coalition of West Side community activist groups who say drugs have destroyed their streets. The stands will be set up from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday as well.

The nearby Harrison District police station has lent an officer and patrol car to protect the stands for the duration of the effort, which is also being staged at Kostner Avenue and Washington Boulevard, and at Keeler and West End.

'Get your lemonade here!' activists hollered from their stands, which were set up amid signs that said: 'Drug Dealers Must Go,' 'Hang with the Snow-Cone Posse' and 'Chill Out with Lemonade.'

Glenda Cunningham-Ross, who helped organize the protest, did not hesitate when asked to characterize the area's drug problem.

'It's bad,' she said. 'On a scale of 1 to 10, we've got a 10.'

She said the severity of the problem forced her group to add this approach to the anti-drug marches, sweeps and protests already in its arsenal.

'We need to show them that we are sick and tired of the blatant drug-dealing in our streets,' said Cunningham-Ross. 'We're sending a message that we're going to take back our streets. We're the ones who are going to be selling something today.'

John Ware, another organizer, said the coalition had put aside fears of retaliation from drug dealers.

'It's true that the fear question is a very real problem,' he said. 'But I'm not worried about what's going to happen to me if I do this. I'm more worried about what's going to happen if I don't do this'.

Neighbors say the community policing program in the neighboring Marquette Police District, to the southeast, and the Austin District, on the west, is driving drug dealers into their area.

Ware spoke without contempt for the program, a throwback to a time when more police officers walked the streets, and said he hoped it would soon come to the Harrison District.

'We as neighbors call the police, we call 911, but we don't get any response,' he said. 'We asked the police about it, and they said they were overwhelmed.'

Sgt. Clarence Thomas, of the Harrison District, denied his officers are overwhelmed, 'but we could use all the help we could get.'

He said the neighborhood is caught in the middle of a dispute among drug dealers with 'various factions vying for certain drug locations.'

Thomas said officers often can identify drug dealers, but cannot arrest them because of lack of evidence.

'If it was a matter of grabbing them off the street, we could do that,' he said. 'But they hide drugs in the grass, in trees, in trash cans, wherever.'

Thomas said it was possible that neighboring community policing programs are forcing other dealers into the area, 'but we're trying to tell them that it's not going to be easy to work here, either.'

Neighbors said the dealers flout police authority by selling drugs in the open, even in broad daylight. The dealers evade police by hiring children to serve as spotters.

Rival dealers boast about the quality of their product and sometimes give drugs away free to lure customers.

'I can't begin to stress the seriousness of this problem. It's a situation that's close to anarchy and that's not exaggerating,' Ware said.

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'There are so many murders,' he said of his neighborhood, which had the city's highest murder rate last year. 'To me, it's worse than being in Iraq during the gulf war, or Vietnam.'

Residents said many of those who buy the drugs are not from the neighborhood and often come in cars bearing Wisconsin license plates.

Otto McMath smiled as he watched cars slow at Kilbourn and Maypole, look at the lemonade stand, then speed off.

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'I've seen some of the same cars coming and expecting to see some action, but it's a different kind of action this morning,' said McMath, 76, a member of the South Austin Coalition Community Council.

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'We know this won't end it,' McMath said, holding a glass of lemonade. 'But at least we'll discourage it for a day or so.'