On March 4, police were dispatched to the Forest Park Blue Line stop at 711 Des Plaines Ave. for reports of a man with a gun. When they arrived, the caller told them she saw a man point a toy orange gun at the back of the head of someone urinating outside the terminal, according to the police report. Police ordered the man, at gunpoint, to drop the gun. The man said the gun was fake, but that he also had a real one, before throwing the gun to the ground. Police detained him and discovered he had a warrant out of Rockford, which he was charged with.
Criminal damage to property
On March 5, police were dispatched to a building in the 1000 block of Harlem Avenue for an activated burglar alarm. While doing a premise check, police noticed damage to a window pane and a rock that was used to break the window in between the window frames. Police said that no entry was made into the business, and no one has been charged.
Police responded to a Dixon Street location on March 10 to see a man with a baseball bat holding a woman down on the ground. After police separated them, the man told them that the two have been dating for six years and have a child together. He added that, earlier that day, he discovered his girlfriend had an OnlyFans account. When he tried to get into his car to leave, the woman started hitting his vehicle with a baseball bat. The woman told police that she and her niece were at the Dixon Street location drinking alcohol and dancing when her boyfriend started calling her disrespectful names and a physical altercation ensued. She admitted to hitting his car with a bat and was charged with criminal damage to property.
Open alcohol
Police responded to Pioneer Tap just after midnight March 6 to address a fight in progress, according to the police report. When police arrived, they saw a group of people leaving the bar. One woman got in the face of a man and threatened to hit him, police said. The woman got in her car, which was parked in a no-parking zone. When police said they asked the intoxicated woman to exit the vehicle, they noticed an open container with a straw inside the center console. She was arrested for having open alcohol.
On March 9, police again responded to a disturbance at Pioneer Tap after heavily patrolling the area because of multiple intoxicated subjects, according to the police report. Police said they talked to a man holding a plastic cup with alcohol in it and issued him a citation for it.
Battery
Police were dispatched to the area of Hannah Avenue and Harrison Street March 6 for a domestic disturbance. The caller told police that she and her boyfriend were coming from his Villa Park apartment and going to pick up her car in Chicago. They started arguing about finances, and the argument became physical, the woman told police. The woman said that, while in the car, her boyfriend pulled off her wig, punched her in the face, threatened her with a knife, and bit her arm, according to the police report. She got out of the car at Hannah and Harrison, and her boyfriend drove away with her car keys. The women refused medical services and signed a complaint refusal form before getting in an Uber, according to police.
On March 9, police were dispatched to a Marengo Avenue location after two callers reported an argument between a man and a woman with the man becoming aggressive. While the woman wouldn’t provide a statement, one witness said he attempted to intervene in the couple’s argument when the man punched him in the face. That man who punched him was charged with one count of battery.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated March 4 through March 10 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.