On March 14, police were dispatched to Lathrop Avenue for a domestic disturbance. When police knocked on the apartment door, then opened it, they saw a man holding two machete knives, screaming at a woman. The two officers respectively drew their gun and taser, asking the man to drop his weapons and the woman to leave the apartment, though she refused. The man didn’t drop the knives, approached the officers and was tased. He was put in handcuffs and, when he continued threatening and attempting to fight officers, leg shackles too.  

After talking with the woman, police discovered that the couple lived together at the apartment with their three daughters. The man learned his mother only had a few days to live, drank more than usual, and threatened his own life by planning for police to kill him. The man was arrested for aggravated assault and, when he was released from custody, transported to Rush Oak Park Hospital for a mental health evaluation.  

Battery  

  • On March 12, police were dispatched to a disturbance at the CTA Green Line stop. A man was on top of his girlfriend, holding her down because he claimed she was swinging at him, although he appeared to be heavily intoxicated. The man and the woman refused medical services. Both signed a complaint refusal form and were provided with information for domestic violence victims. As the woman waited for the Green Line train into the city and the man left to get a bus to Maywood, he continued yelling obscenities at her.  
  • Police were dispatched to the 500 block of Circle Avenue March 17 for a woman threatening people with a knife. At a union meeting for United States Postal Service workers, two women got into a verbal argument over work documents before one of them took out a knife and held it in an aggressive manner. When another meeting attendee tried to grab the knife, the woman poked him in the chest with it. When police arrived at the scene, multiple subjects identified the car that the woman with the knife was leaving in. Police pulled over the vehicle in the 600 block of Harlem Avenue and took her to the police department for questioning. There, she relayed that she thought the other woman at the meeting wasn’t being transparent with financial documents and, as she approached her threateningly, pulled out her pocket knife in self defense. The woman received citations for battery and assault.  

Stolen firearm  

On March 13, a man on Des Plaines Avenue reported that, between Feb. 28 and March 4, someone had stolen his Smith and Wesson M&P 9 millimeter handgun with a 12-round magazine in the gun, plus one round in the chamber. He kept the gun in the glove box of his 2017 Mercedes-Benz. Although he said his car was not tampered with, he noticed the gun missing around the time he valeted the car at Chicago’s Old Post Office Building.  

Resisting an officer  

While on patrol March 16, police heard about a stolen vehicle on the move. They followed the car to the corner of Harlem Avenue and Madison Street, where they boxed the vehicle in a parking lot and approached it with a drawn gun, ordering occupants to put their hands out the windows. The driver was told to turn off and exit the car, then was handcuffed. The two other occupants were also taken into custody. Officers found open liquor in the car, along with a printed agreement stating that the driver had rented the car in Lombard on Feb. 2 and was past due to return the vehicle because, he said, he didn’t have anyone to drive him from the rental car location.  

When an officer realized the driver still had possession of the keys, he ordered him out of the back of the police car and noticed he had slipped off his handcuffs. The driver attempted to run, and the officer body slammed him to the ground before other officers helped detain the man again. He was arrested for possession of a stolen motor vehicle, escape and aggravated resisting.  

These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated March 11 through March 17 and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.