Just after 2 a.m. on Feb. 3, police arrived at the Dunkin’ Donuts on Madison Street. An employee who was there to open the store with her son heard a commotion from the store’s back door, according to the police report. When she went to check what it was, she found a man in all black with a handgun, police said. He told her and her son to walk toward the cash register and took all the money from it, which the woman told police was around $150. The woman told police that the man forced her and her son into the store’s freezer before exiting the building, according to surveillance footage. She called 911 and said that the rear door was locked from the previous night shift, though police observed that it wasn’t. No one has been charged.
Criminal trespassing
The property manager of 7518 Madison St. called police Feb. 3 and told them a woman was on the property who he’d previously told not to return. When police arrived at the site, a construction worker told them the woman was locked in a room down the hall from where they were working and that she’d trespassed on the property almost daily, according to the police report. At the police department, the woman refused to give her name before hitting officers with her fists. Police discovered the woman had two warrants for her arrest out of Cook County. She was also charged with three counts of resisting an officer, battery, and criminal trespassing.
Embezzlement
A woman came to the police station Feb. 5 to report that her realty business partner, whom she’s known for a decade, had allegedly embezzled funds. The woman told police that, last month, she wrote him a check for $20,000 to buy a building in Chicago for his LLC. The man told her that he delayed the purchase because he didn’t have the rest of the money. When she asked him for her money back, he refused and stopped communicating with her. The woman told police she hired a lawyer, who advised her to report the incident to police. The woman wanted to sign complaints against the man, according to the police report.
Retail theft
Police responded to Thorntons gas station on Feb. 5, where an employee said she saw a man steal a box of chocolate bars and family-size bags of candy, later valued over $100. In the 700 block of Harlem Avenue, police saw a man matching a description the employee gave. He was charged with retail theft and, after giving police a fake name, obstructing identification.
Suspicious person
A woman living in the 1100 block of Hannah Avenue came to the police station Feb. 6. She told police that, on her surveillance camera, she saw an unknown person come to the side of her residence just after 3 a.m. and leave with an unknown object. Neither her or her neighbor recognized the person or the object.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated Feb. 3 through Feb. 6 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.