“…The thieves put a flyer on top of the customers’ cell phones. The men pick up the flyer and the cell phone as 
they leave. They know they can turn these cell phones over to a pawn shop and get a couple hundred bucks.”
Chicago police are warning people about a cell phone theft ring that is hitting downtown restaurants. Customers at restaurants on Michigan, Fairbanks, Wabash and Ontario have been robbed in the last four days.
Police say a group of young men approach diners to say that they are raising money for a basketball team. “I was eating by myself tonight and scrolling on the phone and didn’t even think that someone might come and swipe it,” diner Todd Ganz said.
The team of thieves is operating in three different areas, police say: in the 400-block of East Ontario, the 600-block of North Fairbanks, and in the Loop along Michigan Avenue and the 100-block of North Wabash.
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