Suspicious man detained near railroad tracks in Chicago, Chicago IL


Police observed a man wearing all black with a black backpack near the Red Line in Chicago. Aerial units tracked a heat signature near 53rd Street and LaSalle close to the railroad tracks and a billboard. Officers on the ground found and detained one individual in a nearby vacant lot.
Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 07
06:52
Transcript:
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211. 211.
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211. 211. Squad,
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I got a possible at the red line.
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Male 1 wearing all black with a black backpack.
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Can you have 2.25 soon this way?
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2.25.
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Yes, well. I'm for another one.
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312 12 312
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Govag frontiers left
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104
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253 353
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353
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Hey, squad, can I get an overtime addition to admission?
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175th, I'm State to Cottage.
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Let me add a location again.
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Hey, 312, your calls coming out for you.
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Can I forwarding in contact.
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PH2[1] for the zone, right out of the air.
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I got somebody hiding in the woods here next to the railroad tracks.
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Unit coming in.
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Page 2, I got a body, I got a heat signature,
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just east of LaSalle, west of the railroad tracks,
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south of 53rd on the north end of the building,
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south of 53rd, west of the tracks,
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east of LaSalle, right by the big billboard.
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26-1-80, we're up there.
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10-4[2]-1-1-1-1-1-2-1-the-field.
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Near the big billboard.
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There are officers on the ground near the billboard, have them walk towards the railroad tracks.
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Officers near billboard, please walk towards the railroad track. He's been sitting down on his stomach right now.
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All guys, officers. I'll keep going to the railroad tracks.
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The metal stays down near the tracks.
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Yeah, all right, the tracks. Can we are reach out for air in track?
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We're watching there are no trains.
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He's not at the tracks as well before the tracks.
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Officers are on the ground.
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Keep going.
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Keep going.
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Turn to your left.
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Turn to your left and go straight north.
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He's laying on the ground.
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Turn left to walk north.
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150 feet.
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Turn left, walk north 150 feet.
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The squad is facing the tracks.
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The squad car, you go directly towards the railroad tracks facing down in the shrubbery.
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261 calories, P.A.2. Can you tell us to be close by a telephone pole?
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North, north is the telephone pole.
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North. All those guys walking on the path make sharp left.
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Stop the squad, not the squad. Stop the squad.
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Make your left, that your left, that's your left.
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Ten feet to your left.
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Ten feet, to your left.
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218. Unit coming in there.
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3212.
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321, I can't copy you.
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They got one detained, one detained.
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Where do you have one detained? Where do you have one detain?
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Whatever appears that, sir.
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Just use 53rd and LaSalle. It's vacant lot.
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Just watch the railroad tracks. 53 and LaSalle.
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53 and LaSalle. 503 in LaSalle.
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SPH, do we have any more heat signal?
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Stand by.
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Yeah, but heat signature, guys that are walking back towards a squad car, make a right.
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At the base of this salt hill or dirt hill, there's a tree at the base of this salt hill or dirt hill here.
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It's in the woods.
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Keep walking, guys, keep walking.
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That's a heat signature, I'm not sure what that is.
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Maybe water.
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Stop, to your left, to your left, guys.
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Towards the tree, to your left.
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To your left. Guys holding up the lights, walk to your left.
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261, Scott.
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SPH2[1] is it's...
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We're going to flash up. We're going to flash up.
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Okay, the officer that's flashing the light at me.
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Look to your right.
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Look to your right.
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Right there.
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Straight forward.
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Towards that tree.
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Stand by. Let's have the more. You got to go to your right a little bit more.
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All right there guys, let's look towards that single tree that's there right there.
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Again, it's a heat signature at the base of that tree.
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It could be multiple things that we're picking up the heat signature.
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Officer that was flashing the light, turn to your light.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
PH2: Chicago Police helicopter unit 2
[2]
10-4: Acknowledgment; message received or affirmative (OK).
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