Police were dispatched to Walmart on Roosevelt Road May 6 just around 8 p.m. after someone called to report someone with a gun. A woman told police that, after she parked, a woman in a gray Dodge Durango parked a few spots away, got out of the car and said she had a gun and threatened to shoot her. The woman went into Walmart, but said she had a gun in her car again on the way out, then circled the parking lot. The woman said she’d sign complaints if the offender was identified.
Assisting other police
Around 11 p.m. on May 5, Addison police informed village police of a high-risk missing person who was last seen in Forest Park. After referencing a photo, a police officer remembered seeing the man earlier that day. He returned to that area and found the man around 400 Des Plaines Ave. The man refused medical assistance, and his brother came to pick him up.
Criminal damage to property
According to a police report, just after midnight on May 6, a man came up to a CTA employee stationed at 701 Harlem Ave. and told her, “You better go check your car.” The employee parked her car in the 800 block of Elgin Avenue and has been having trouble with a different man who frequents the area and has tried to belligerently enter her booth. The woman found her car with one of its locks broken and tires punctured, an estimated $440 worth of damage. The woman said she’d call the police if the man came back and asked for an extra officer to survey 701 Harlem overnight.
Battery
While on patrol May 6 around 5 p.m., police were stationed at Walgreens on Roosevelt Road when a man approached the car and said an Uber passenger had punched him. The man told police he tried to get in a car he thought was his Uber after the offender got out of the car and went inside Walgreens. When the offender came out, he put his items in the Uber and approached the man to punch him in the side of the head. Police apprehended the offender, who said he didn’t do anything before confessing he hit the man. He was charged with battery.
Warrant for arrest
Just after 2 a.m. on May 7, police were dispatched to the alley behind the 100 block of Marengo Avenue after a man called to say he saw someone wearing a black jumpsuit and headlight breaking into his coach house. Upon arriving, police found the described offender and caller together. They said they knew each other, and it was a misunderstanding. The man dressed in black said he was helping a friend who lives at the location get rid of unwanted items. That friend came downstairs and validated the claim, saying he rents a unit from the man who called police. Police ran everyone’s name through their system and found the man dressed in black had two warrants for his arrest out of Cook County. He was charged for both.
Possession of cannabis
On May 7, police saw a car traveling west on Harrison Avenue run the stop sign at Lathrop Avenue. Police pulled the car over and detected a strong smell of cannabis and saw a rolling tray on the center console. The man driving said he didn’t have any cannabis in the car and that he didn’t know there was a stop sign. Officers asked for the man and the car’s passenger to step out of the vehicle before searching it and finding two bags of suspected marijuana in the trunk. The passenger told police the marijuana was hers. Because the car was registered to the driver and he acknowledged the presence of cannabis and stated its approximate weight, he was charged with possession of cannabis over 30 grams, failure to yield at a stop sign and having unlawful tinted windows.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated May 5 through May 7 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.