On Jan. 17, police were dispatched to the intersection of Jackson and Elgin for an accident that occurred there with injuries. Police reported that one of the cars had flipped with the driver still inside. After the fire department extracted the woman from her car, police reported that she had pinpointed pupils and difficulty walking before becoming unconscious. Police administered Narcan to the woman, and she was transported to Loyola University Medical Center. A witness told police that the woman drove into oncoming traffic and hit a parked vehicle, flipping her car. When police took the woman into custody at the hospital, she told them she had relapsed and consumed heroin before getting in her car. She was charged with driving under the influence of drugs, failure to reduce speed in her vehicle, improper lane usage, and operating an uninsured car.
Disorderly conduct
Also on Jan. 17, police responded to the Forest Park Public Library to remove a man who was being aggressive toward staff, according to the police report. Staff told police that the man was in the kid’s restroom for a long time. When staff confronted the man, he started yelling and threatening to sue, police said. Library staff told police this had previously happened with the subject, whom they suspended from using the library for a week, according to their policy, which the man violated Jan. 17. After the man yelled at police when they spoke to him, he grabbed his belongings and left. He was not charged.
Domestic battery
Police responded to the CTA Blue Line stop in Forest Park Jan. 15. A man there told them that he was at his girlfriend’s Forest Park apartment earlier in the evening, where she pushed him down the stairs during an altercation. Though the man said he didn’t wish to sign complaints against his girlfriend, he said he wanted to go to the hospital for injuries to his head and hand. He was taken to Rush Oak Park Hospital, and no one was charged.
Fraudulent check
On Jan. 14, the accounting administrator at Waldheim Cemetery reported a fraudulent check. She told police that, the day before, she was reviewing the list of checks provided by Fifth Third Bank, where the cemetery has an account, when she saw a fraudulent check over $5,000 paid to a name that was redacted in the police report. She said the bank put the money back in the cemetery’s account, and that she wanted to sign complaints if the offender is located.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated Jan. 14 through Jan. 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.