On April 13, police said they responded to Pioneer Tap after getting multiple complaints about parking and loud music. Police cited a car in front of the building for parking in a no parking zone, and police found that the registered owner of the car has a revoked license for driving under the influence, according to the police report. Two hours later, police reported seeing a disturbance in front of Pioneer Tap while on patrol and observed a man get into the cited car and drive away. Police pulled him over in the 100 block of Des Plaines Avenue and put him in custody. He was charged for having a revoked license, possession of cannabis and alcohol in his vehicle, driving under the influence, and an aggravated DUI.
DUI
Oak Park police saw an accident at the intersection of Harlem and Roosevelt after 1 a.m. on April 11 and told other police units which direction the offending vehicle fled. Forest Park police saw that North Riverside police had pulled over a maroon SUV with heavy front-end damage, matching the description of the offending car. North Riverside police said it was because the maroon car ran a red light at Harlem and Cermak, and that they also saw open alcohol in the car. Forest Park police asked the woman to exit her car and placed her in custody for fleeing an accident. The woman’s standardized field sobriety test performance indicated she was under the influence of alcohol. She was charged with driving under the influence, leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, open alcohol, and two counts of violating Illinois vehicle code.
Theft
On April 4, a man living on Troost Avenue came to the police station to report that, on March 28, he saw a homeless man and allowed him to stay in his residence to avoid an incoming storm, according to the police report. After the man left his house the following morning, the man noticed his T-Mobile internet router was missing. He reported that he rented the router from the Forest Park Public Library, and it was valued at $100. The man didn’t have any subject information about the homeless man but described him to police.
On April 7, police were dispatched to the Walgreens on Roosevelt Road for a retail theft. Police attempted to stop the subject who matched the given description, but he ran away. After pursuing the subject, police found him hiding behind a shed in the 1100 block of Maple Avenue in Oak Park. The subject ignored officers’ commands to put his hands behind his back and pulled away to resist arrest, according to the police report. Police ran the subject’s name and discovered he had a warrant for his arrest out of Woodford County near Peoria. The Walgreens employee positively identified the man, who stole $64 worth of laundry items. The man was banned from Walgreens and charged for his in-state warrant, retail theft and three counts of resisting an officer.
Missing person
Police were dispatched to a Roosevelt Road address to talk to the mother of a 15-year-old girl who had missed class at Proviso East High School and turned off her phone’s location, according to the police report. Police reported that the last time the mother talked to the girl, she was mad that her mother didn’t let her attend a military ballroom event at her school because of poor behavior and grades, and that she was staying with a friend for two weeks. Police called the girl who was at her boyfriend’s house in Maywood. Police said that, though the girl initially refused to go home, after her mother came and talked about making things better, the girl went with her.
A short time later, police were dispatched for an argument between the mother and 15-year-old. The mother told police that, when she took her daughter’s phone away, she pushed her and tried to leave the house again. The girl said she didn’t want to stay with her mother, but agreed to go with her father, who drove from Michigan to pick her up, according to the police report.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated April 4 through April 13 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.