On July 18, police were dispatched to McAdam Landscaping after a car ran into the company’s fence while the business was closed. The man who crashed into the fence along Des Plaines Avenue left the car on, a handgun on the driver’s seat and immediately fled from his vehicle, according to the police report. After patrolling the area, police found a man lying in a nearby flower bed and took him into custody for the crash. His breath smelled of alcohol and he had slurred speech, according to police. The man was arrested for unlawful use of a weapon, operating an uninsured motor vehicle, having an expired license, leaving the scene with property damage, and driving under the influence of alcohol.
Dog bite
On July 15, a man reported to police that, while walking through Concordia Cemetery, he was bit by a dog. He told police that a man and a woman approached him with five dogs. While the dogs were friendly at first, he felt one nibble at his wrist and another at his calf. He asked the owners to control their dogs and, when the dogs backed off, found puncture marks on his calf and shin. The owners helped clean his wounds and provided their personal information and the dog’s vaccination records. No one was arrested and the police report is a matter of record.
Aggravated robbery
Police were dispatched July 15 to a robbery happening in the 7200 block of Roosevelt Road. A man entered the Metro by T-Mobile store and inquired about a flip phone. When the employee walked away to retrieve the flip phone from the store’s storage, he said he came back to find the man behind the register, stealing cash and two iPhones that he had previously asked the employee about and the employee held inside the register. The iPhones were worth about $2,000 and the man took over $600 in cash, the employee told police. The man has not been located.
Battery
A woman told police July 16 that, while asleep on the CTA Blue Line, she awoke to a man grabbing her stomach and touching her legs. When police apprehended the suspect at the Harlem CTA Blue Line station, they reported that he was intoxicated and repeatedly told them he was sleeping. The man was charged with battery and was released from the Forest Park Police Department after signing a Non-Discretionary Pretrial Release Conditions Bond slip.
Damage to vehicle
On July 16, a UPS driver was sitting in his van in the 1800 block of Des Plaines Avenue when a metal object flew through his front-seat passenger window and exited through the driver window, shattering both windows. A nearby landscaper told police that he was cutting the grass when he ran over a metal object that flew through the nearby car. The UPS driver had cuts from the glass on his arms and knees but declined medical assistance, according to the police report. No one was charged in the accident.
Suspicious circumstances
A man reported to police July 17 that, the morning before, there was a man leaning near his apartment window on Circle Avenue. When the man asked what the suspect was doing, he ran away to the building’s rear parking lot. The man addressed him again in the parking lot and the suspect said he lived in the building, though the man told police that he doesn’t believe he lives in his building or the surrounding buildings. When the suspect threatened to shoot him, the man went back to his apartment to get a knife. When he returned to the parking lot, the man was gone. The man said that, though the other suspect didn’t try to enter his apartment, he believed he would have if he hadn’t intervened. Police advised him to not approach the suspect if he returned and to call 911.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated July 15 through July 18 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.