Chicago man charged in attempted robbery

A Chicago man is facing charges for breaking into a woman’s house after she kicked him out, and trying to steal her purse and keys, court records show.

Calvin L. Bronson was charged Dec. 27 with several felonies, including attempted robbery, burglary, criminal confinement, intimidation, residential entry and misdemeanor domestic battery.

He appeared in court Thursday where a judge entered a not guilty plea.

Gary Police responded at 2 a.m. Dec. 26 to the 5000 block of Kentucky Avenue.

A woman told officers she got into an argument with Bronson after she invited him over on Christmas Eve. She kicked him out early on Dec. 26, because he was drunk.

He went outside and was being “loud” enough to “wake the neighbors,” the woman said. She locked him out.

He came back around 2 a.m. as she heard several “booms” and glass breaking. He broke a garage window, crawled in, then broke the door inside the garage to get in the home.

Holding a rock, he told her to take him home to Chicago, or he would break her car windows.

He pushed her against the wall and tried to steal her purse and keys. She managed to push him down, then ran outside. Bronson “went after” her with a kitchen knife, according to the affidavit.

The woman went outside to her car and called the police. She went back inside to take medication and Bronson was still there, holding a hammer, threatening her and to break other stuff inside the house.

She told Bronson she would take him home, but instead drove to the Gary police station.

The woman was on her way when 911 dispatch called her back. It was her “landlord,” she told Bronson. Cops were at the home by the time the woman returned with him.

The woman said she dated Bronson years earlier.

He admitted breaking back into the home, saying the woman locked him out in the rain. He only intended to break stuff he bought inside, he said.

mcolias@post-trib.com