Around 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 16, police were dispatched to the 1000 block of Harlem Avenue for an armed robbery. Dispatch told police that two men stopped a man on the street, took his bag and fled. The victim said the men came out of a residence wearing all black with hoods covering most of their faces. One had a knife and told the man to drop his Verizon shopping bag. The man gave them his bag, which had four cell phones in it that he’d bought earlier that day. The offenders could not be located.  

Around 8 p.m. on Dec. 18, police were dispatched to the 7700 block of Roosevelt Road for an armed robbery. The offender had a Glock and was seen driving west on Roosevelt in a white sedan. Police made contact with the victim and his girlfriend, who sells goods on Facebook marketplace and earlier that day agreed to meet someone who wanted to buy a pair of shoes from her. They met in a parking lot, where a man got out of the white sedan and approached the car. When the victim got out of the car to get the shoes, the offender pulled out a handgun and pointed it at him, demanding the shoes or he’d shoot. The suspect took the shoes, forced the man back in his car, then went to the white sedan and drove off. The man said he’d sign complaints if the offender was located.  

Dog at large  

Police responded to the 7700 block of Taylor Street on Dec. 15, where a man said that a neighbor hadn’t been picking up her dog’s poop and regularly leaves it in his lawn. The woman told police that she recently had eye surgery and is sometimes unable to see where her dog poops. Police reported that the woman’s dog was off leash. The woman was cited with having a dog at large.  

Domestic battery 

On Dec. 15, police were dispatched to a domestic disturbance on Des Plaines Avenue. There, the caller said her sister threw a brick through her son’s window after she denied her entry to the residence. The son told police that the brick hit him in the groin area and that he didn’t want medical attention, though he did want to sign complaints against the offender. Police reported that the bedroom window was open and the blinds were damaged. Police tried to contact the offender with negative results, and she’s now wanted by the Forest Park Police Department for domestic battery. 

Aggravated battery 

At about 3 a.m. on Dec. 18, police were dispatched to the 200 block of Harlem Avenue to remove a subject who was banging on the door of a business. Police made contact with the man and told him to leave the property. He refused, mumbled and continued trying to get close to the officer. When backup arrived, the man got into a fighting stance, threatened to kill the officer and tried to punch police but missed. After the man ignored several police commands, officers tased him and he was placed into custody, but not before he spit in an officer’s face. The man was charged with criminal trespassing, aggravated battery of a police officer, aggravated assault of a police officer, and three counts of resisting police. 

Motor vehicle theft 

On Dec. 19, Berwyn police contacted Forest Park police to say they were with a possibly stolen vehicle that had its ownership registered to a Harrison Street address in Forest Park. The car was in the 7100 block of Cermak, had hit a pole and was inoperable. Forest Park police asked the woman who owned the car if she knew where it was, and she said it was parked behind her residence. But when she went to check, the vehicle was missing.  

Battery 

On Dec. 19, a man told police that on Dec. 15, he was on the CTA Blue Line when two men and one woman walked by him on a train car as his phone slid off his lap and he caught it. One of the men said he wasn’t going to steal his phone, then the three people started threatening him. When he got off the train and on the Forest Park platform, the three started threatening him again and one man sprayed him with pepper spray. The man was not able to describe the subjects for police, according to the police report. 

‘These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated Dec. 15 through Dec. 19 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.