Police received a call from the Dean of Students from Proviso Math and Science Academy Sept. 25 regarding a student’s Instagram post. The dean told police that a teacher had been approached by several students who were concerned about the post, which included the words “PMSA I’m coming for you” or “PMSA I’m coming to get you,” according to the police report. Police contacted the student’s mother, who said she didn’t know about the Instagram post, but that her son was being bullied at school, according to the report. The dean said the school is following its own policy.
Residential burglary
On Sept. 25, a woman reported to police that she saw a man enter her neighbor’s garage and steal a package. The woman followed the man to the CTA Forest Park Blue Line station, where she identified him to police as the offender. The man had four pairs of stolen shoes worth $450, and he was placed into custody at the train station. He was charged with residential burglary.
Aggravated battery
On Sept. 25, police did a random registration check on a car. They learned the registration was expired, and the car’s owner had an active warrant out of DuPage County. When police attempted to pull over the car at Harlem Avenue and I-290, the driver ignored the sirens and merged onto the interstate before pulling over. The driver and passenger were argumentative, according to the police report. Police asked the woman driving to exit her vehicle for fleeing the traffic stop, but she repeatedly refused. As police grabbed her left wrist to force her from the car, she wrapped her right arm through the steering wheel. The woman in the passenger seat grabbed the driver’s seatbelt, obstructing officers from making their arrest. Police ordered the passenger out of the car and she complied, then attempted to run down I-290 before police grabbed her. When a police officer tried to free the driver’s arm from the steering wheel, she bit him and was forcibly removed from the car. The driver was charged with expired registration and operating a vehicle with expired registration, operating an uninsured car, aggravated battery, possessing cannabis in a motor vehicle, fleeing a peace officer, and eight counts of resisting or obstructing police. The passenger was charged with an in-state warrant and four counts of resisting a police officer.
Suspicious circumstances
Police were dispatched Sept. 27 to Brown Avenue. A woman noticed that a neighboring unit had a broken door frame and the door was open. Police knocked on the door, and a man answered who said he had permission to be at the address. The unit’s homeowner was called, and he told police that the man didn’t have permission to be in his unit. When the homeowner returned from work, he told police that the damage to the door was old and that he placed a work order for the door last year, but it hasn’t been fixed. No one was charged.
Deceptive practices
On Sept. 29, Taco Bell’s store manager reported that she arrived at work to find that the day before, the shift lead took $2,962 from the store’s safe. The shift lead told the manager that a man called the store and told her to take cash to a bitcoin ATM at the gas station on Harlem and Chicago Avenue in order to buy new computers for the store. The employee did and sent the bitcoin to him. She will be required to make restitution if Taco Bell is unable to recover the money, according to the police report.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated September 25 through September 29 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.
Update: This article has been updated to remove medical information about a minor.
