Police responded to the CTA Blue Line Forest Park station the morning of Oct. 30 for a report of a man waving a knife. He was also banging on windows and threatened to kill someone, according to the police report. Police saw the man yelling at people and, when they approached the man, he pulled out a knife. Police told him to drop it, which he did. Police then detained him. He was charged with aggravated assault and two warrants, one for retail theft and another for aggravated assault on a transit employee.
Domestic trouble
On Oct. 24, police responded to a Roosevelt Road address after a man called around 3 a.m. to ask police to escort him up to his apartment, since his roommate’s stepson had several people living with him for the last three months. Police reported the man was upset and appeared intoxicated, later walking away from police. About 20 minutes later, police returned to the residence for a disturbance. According to the police report, the apartment had an odor and there was trash on the floor. Police reported that there were over a dozen people in the kitchen and three juveniles sleeping in a bedroom. Their parents were instructed to take them somewhere else for the night after their names came back clear. One man was arrested for an active warrant out of DuPage County, and police made a DCFS report for the involvement of the children.
Assisting fire department
Police were dispatched to a Roosevelt Road address around 2 a.m. on Oct. 26 for a woman who was overdosing. Police reported that the woman was conscious and breathing but appeared intoxicated and could barely stand without the help of a man with her. The man said the woman was drinking and taking Klonopin, and that he administered Narcan to her. Upon trying to relocate the woman from the apartment, she became irate and repeatedly refused medical services, according to the police report. Police told her she had to go to the hospital because she could be overdosing, and members of the Forest Park Fire Department confirmed that the woman was overdosing. She was taken to Rush Oak Park Hospital.
Aggravated assault
On Oct. 26, police responded to a Hannah Avenue residence at 3 a.m. for an aggravated assault. The caller told police that two people with masks on were trying to steal his neighbor’s catalytic converter and pointed a gun at him before fleeing in a U-Haul truck. The catalytic converter was still attached to the car, and the neighbor said he’d sign complaints if the offender was located.
Battery
Police were dispatched to the CTA Blue Line Forest Park station on Oct. 27. Upon arrival, security told police that they asked a woman to get off the train because there was an unconscious subject on the train, then the woman hit security. According to police, the woman spoke incoherently, but told police she was attacked, choked, scratched and raped by security. She was taken into custody and discovered to be missing out of Chicago since the previous day. She was charged with battery, obstructing her identification to police and resisting an officer.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated Oct. 24 through Oct. 30 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.