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Man with improvised knife outside downtown hotel

Heard on: Chicago Police Department Zone 04
00:19
00:00
Next up in the ten sector, person with a knife, (number withheld) North Wabash.
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N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60601
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Officers are sent to a downtown hotel area for a report of a man with a sharp object. Callers report a man in front of the hotel who appears to be having a drug episode and is armed with scissors that have been turned into a makeshift stabbing weapon. He is described as about twenty years old, wearing brown pants, a brown coat, and gray shoes. At one point it is reported that no weapon is seen and he is not holding anything. Fire department crews are waiting nearby for safety.

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