On Dec. 2, police responded to the CTA Green Line station after a caller reported a man with a gun. Oak Park police radioed that the man fled to Marion Street. While Forest Park police were surveying surrounding alleyways, the offender appeared from a back stairwell in the 100 block of Marion and was detained at gunpoint, according to the police report. Police recovered a firearm from an adjacent rooftop. Oak Park police took control of the scene and charged the man with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and defacing identification marks of a firearm. He also had a warrant for his arrest out of Villa Park, according to the Oak Park police report.
Theft of labor at Fat Duck Grill
Police were dispatched to Fat Duck Grill on Dec. 3 because a customer couldn’t pay his $117 bill. According to the report, police recognized the man from the previous day, when he was removed from Chipotle and sent to Rush Oak Park Hospital for being too intoxicated. The man, who police reported as being intoxicated at Fat Duck, said he lost his wallet and had no cash. Police said that at both Fat Duck and Chipotle, the man seemed confused. He was charged with theft of labor or services.
Assault at Dollar Tree
A woman came into the police department on Dec. 4 to report that, while she was working at Dollar Tree, she overheard a man making sexual remarks to female customers. When the employee asked the man to leave, he continued walking around the store and made sexual comments about her appearance. He also made the shape of a gun with his hand and threatened to kill her if she called the police, according to the report. The man eventually left, and the woman said she’d sign complaints against him if police apprehend him.
Package theft
On Dec. 5, police responded to the 7500 block of Brown Avenue after a UPS driver reported that men in a car stole a package. The UPS driver told police that he was delivering a package on Rockford Avenue when a man approached him and asked for the parcel to be delivered to a Lathrop Avenue address instead. After the UPS driver declined, the man grabbed a package and got into the passenger side of a white Dodge Charger. The offenders haven’t been identified.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated Dec. 2 through Dec. 5 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.