A woman was assaulted with a handgun and had her cell phone stolen while she was walking on the 1000 block of S. Wells Street on March 11.

The woman told police that as she was walking her dog, two offenders approached and demanded her dog. The victim refused, at which point the offender displayed a blue steel, long-barreled handgun and struck the victim in the upper right arm.

The offender then held the handgun to the victim’s head and grabbed the cell phone. Both offenders fled northbound on Wells.

Security officers from a nearby condo building on S. Delano Court said they observed the offenders earlier in the evening getting into an older model black Oldsmobile. There was also a security camera from the condo that recorded the offenders, but footage had yet to be made available at the time of the crime report.

A passenger was on a CTA Pink Line train going around the Loop March 11 when three offenders approached him displaying a chrome snub-nose handgun and told him to give them everything out of his pockets. The victim said that the offenders took his cell phone and MP3 player and the left the train at the Randolph stop.

On March 10, someone called 911 and said that a person had called his cell phone multiple times claiming to have, “Three pounds of nitro and it’s going through city hall.” The call was located coming from a cell phone in the area of 6900 S. Clyde Ave. The police informed City Hall officers about the incident, but nothing came of it beyond the initial phone call to police.

CTA robbery turns into chase

A CTA passenger said she was sitting in a Red Line train stopped at the Harrison station March 10 when three people got up from their seats and came towards her.

The first two walked passed the victim, and the third snatched the victim’s Apple iPhone 4.

The three offenders ran up the stairs to street level and took off southward. The victim gave chase but lost the offenders at street level.

On March 12, police responded to a complaint about an unruly patron at the Civic Opera House at 20 N. Wacker Dr.

According to the complainant, Sergey Dembski, 38, asked an usher where he could get opera glasses. An usher told the suspect he could get such glasses but, like all patrons, could not reenter until intermission.

The suspect then went down to the main lobby to get binoculars. He tried to re-enter the opera when an usher informed him, again, that he couldn’t until intermission. The suspect then allegedly shoved the usher twice and noted he paid $200 for tickets.

Police put the suspect under arrest, read him his Miranda rights and took him to the 1st District station for processing. Once at the station, Dembski allegedly grew increasingly obnoxious and hostile and was put in a “rubber room.”

Dembski will appear in court next month on a battery charge.