Police surveil vehicle near Shell station for suspicious activity, Chicago IL

Other Crimes

Reported: 10/26/2025 11:30 PM

Near S Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60609

Police are monitoring a light blue 2006 Honda passenger van near a Shell gas station at 36th and Kedzie. The van's occupants reportedly ran from an area and returned to the vehicle. Observers did not see any merchandise with them. Multiple police units are coordinating surveillance to follow the van and its occupants.

Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 13

02:19

Transcript:

00:00

The van they dropped them off is over at the Shell Station near 36th and Kedzie right now it's like a silver, I'll need this is a toilet or something.

00:12

912, can you start riding that way?

00:15

10 4th.

00:18

910.

00:20

910.

00:22

00:24

Squatch you know if like the railroad so they can start getting someone over there.

00:30

Time for.

00:32

Okay, Sam. We talk the Vans heading back,

00:36

and there are some railroad police, but just on the other side of Kedzie, just the east of where these guys went up.

00:51

Okay, ten-four.

00:55

32, ten-four.

00:58

32, ten-four.

01:00

9-21, we'll head that way as well.

01:03

21, ten-four.

01:11

All you guys are talking over each other.

01:15

One, five, we'll go.

01:17

Fifteen, ten-four.

01:20

23.

01:23

60. There's a cover.

01:26

60 Davis. On 4.

01:29

All right, I hope you, Sam. They came running out there. Getting in the van now.

01:34

I'll let you know which direction I'm going to go.

01:38

Time for.

01:43

Frank Robert (number withheld). It's on a Honda van.

01:52

Tom for.

01:58

It says it's a light blue 06 Honda passenger van. Registered to (number withheld).

02:07

Okay, they're sitting at the light. I think if they went up there did anything, they did some cotton, they didn't come down with any merchandise.

02:14

So if you want to lay back and let's see if they go park over on 36 and go back.

02:19

Okay.

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