Police arrived at the CTA Blue Line station in Forest Park Jan. 29 for reports of a battery. The person who called the police department told authorities that a woman hit her inside a convenience store. Police detained the woman, who tensed her body and kicked an officer to resist arrest, according to the police report. She also grabbed a pair of scissors from the vest of a police officer, raised them above her head, and threatened the officer’s life, police said. According to the report, police tased the woman and placed her in custody. She was charged with three counts of resisting an officer, a count of aggravated battery, and attempted first degree murder.
Car crash
While on patrol Jan. 30, police received a hit on a vehicle approaching Harlem from I-290 that was wanted by Villa Park police for eluding officers. The driver ignored police’s attempt to pull him over, traveling about 100 miles per hour in a 55 mile-per-hour zone, according to the report. The car went through a chain link fence and crashed into Forest Home Cemetery. The driver was charged for an in-state warrant, operating an uninsured car, not having a license, speeding, violating a traffic signal, improper lane usage, and eluding an officer.
Assisting police or fire
On Jan. 28, police responded to the CTA Forest Park Blue Line stop because a passenger was unresponsive on a train car. The person was showing clear signs of an opioid overdose, according to police. Police administered a dose of Narcan, and the person briefly became responsive before becoming unresponsive again. When the Forest Park Fire Department arrived, the person became conscious again and was taken to RUSH Oak Park Hospital.
On Feb. 2, River Forest police were waved down at Dunkin’ Donuts in Forest Park and told a man with a knife had stabbed two people. Forest Park police helped River Forest officers detain the suspect, who was inside Dunkin’ Donuts, and put him in custody. They also helped tend to one of the victims until the Forest Park Fire Department arrived. The stabbing happened at 1116 South Boulevard in Oak Park, Oak Park police took over the scene.
Identity theft
On Jan. 27, a man living on Marengo Avenue reported to police that, two days prior, he noticed two charges he didn’t recognize. There was a $875 and $715 charge, both for student loans. No one has been charged.
A woman reported to police on Jan. 29 that, in November, she logged onto the ComEd app and found another account was opened in her name for an address in the 1000 block of Des Plaines Avenue, though she never lived there. ComEd closed the account but wanted over $280 from her and advised her to file a police report.
In-state warrants
Police arrested a man Jan. 27 for a warrant for his arrest out of DuPage County. While on patrol, police saw a stationary car at Thorntons gas station, and checking it in the system, and found its owner had a warrant and suspended license for insurance violations, according to the police report. Police pulled over the car in the 600 block of Harlem Avenue and arrested the man for his warrant, one count of a suspended driver’s license, and one count of operating an uninsured car.
Also on Jan. 27, police were called to Walmart for a man and woman who committed retail theft at the self-checkout. Police found that the man had a serviceable warrant for failure to appear in Cook County court. He was arrested because of his warrant and for one charge of retail theft. The woman was charged with retail theft. Both were blocked from all Walmart and Sam’s Club locations for two years.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated Jan. 27 through Feb. 2 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.
