An employee of Blueberry Hill, the bar at 427 Des Plaines Ave., came to work Nov. 20 to discover the cash register was open, damaged and empty, according to a police report. The man told police that $300 was missing from the register, along with the tavern’s ATM. Though there were ransacked drawers near the bar, the employee reported that nothing from them, or any liquor from the bar, was missing. No one has been charged.
Criminal trespass
On Nov. 20, a man who manages a single-family home in the 7600 block of Roosevelt Road called the police at about 11:30 p.m. to report a burglary in progress. Police entered the house and descended to the basement, giving verbal commands for intruders to come upstairs. Two women attempted to leave through a basement door but were stopped by police. A man was also in the house, but the three told police they were allowed to be there. Police reported that they found no sign of forced entry, and the house was unfurnished. Police called the property owner, the brother of the property manager, who told them he was not leasing out the property and no one should be inside. The three suspects – a brother and sister, plus the woman’s daughter – told police they were evicted from another property the day before and were in the cold. The siblings said their niece, known as “Headquarter,” brought them to the house and unlocked the door, according to the report. They were each charged with one count of criminal trespassing to a residence.
Damage to property
A man living in the 900 block of Troost Avenue called police Nov. 19 for a burglary. Police reported that the man appeared intoxicated when he told them that his apartment’s door was kicked in while he was asleep. The man, who police said was continuously noncompliant, told police his neighbor did it. There were three people sleeping in the man’s living room, who left the scene and didn’t want to speak with police, officials said. No one has been charged.
Disorderly conduct
On Nov. 18, police were dispatched to the Forest Park CTA Blue Line station for reports of a fight that included a weapon. Upon arrival, police found the weapon on the platform’s ground and later discovered it to be a replica BB gun. CTA personnel identified the man whose gun it was. The man told police that he was sitting on the train when another man came up, assaulted him, and stole his phone. A witness told police that the suspect man was passed out on the train and not responding to efforts to awake him, so he administered him a dose of Narcan. The man woke up and started to act crazy, pointing the gun at others, according to the police report. The suspect was arrested on one count of assault and one count of disorderly conduct. Another man involved in the fight was arrested for two in-state warrants and obstructing identification.
Delayed battery
On Nov. 21, police were dispatched to a Roosevelt Road business. There, an employee told them that a woman and man came into the business, and she overheard that the woman had been jumped. Police located the woman, who told them that she was walking home from the Forest Park CTA Blue Line stop when, near the ice rink on Harrison Street, four women approached her and demanded her purse. When she refused, she said they struck her and took the purse, which contained her wallet, ID and $40. Police reported a large laceration with dried blood on the woman’s face and she was taken to Rush Oak Park Hospital.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated Nov. 18 through Nov. 21 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.