Around 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 27, police responded to the 1100 block of Elgin Ave. after someone called to report their neighbors were yelling about kicking a dog and that one had a knife. Police arrived to find several people screaming outside. Police asked a woman with her hands in her pockets to remove them, and she threw the knife to the ground. One woman told police she was standing on her porch when she saw a man walking his dog, then kick it repeatedly. The woman screamed at him to stop, and the man came to yell at her and her daughter. The woman said the man pushed her daughter, so her daughter pulled out a utility knife and cut the man. The man said one of the women started swiping her cane at him and the other waved a knife at him several times, cutting his arm. Police reported that the dog didn’t have any injuries and, from camera footage, couldn’t see who made physical contact first. No one was charged.
Assisting police
Police were dispatched to the CTA Blue Line station around 7 p.m. on Feb. 24 for a woman who was unconscious and barely breathing. The woman was seated on the train with her head tilted back. Police reported that she had blue lips and was unresponsive to sternum rubs. The woman started breathing after two doses of Narcan, woke up and said she was fine. The Forest Park Fire Department took her to RUSH Oak Park Hospital.
Criminal trespass
Police were dispatched to Thornton’s gas station on Harlem Avenue on Feb. 26 around 8 a.m. to remove a man who was previously trespassed and returned to the business. Police repeatedly asked the man to leave and he didn’t. When police tried to handcuff him, he pulled away and tensed his body. He was charged with criminal trespassing, two counts of resisting an officer, and obstructing identification.
Suspicious circumstances
At 3 p.m. on Feb. 27, police were dispatched to the 7300 block of Harvard St. after the passenger riding in an older black Chevy Tahoe pointed a toy gun and yelled at a child walking home from school. The child’s parent said his son didn’t know the passenger. Police were unable to find the vehicle in the area.
DUI
While on patrol Feb. 27, police did a random registration check for a car whose owner had a revoked license for a DUI. Police saw the driver make a right turn from Circle Avenue to Dixon and pulled it over. Police reported that the car smelled of alcohol, that there was suspected liquor in a glass in the center console, and that the driver had bloodshot, glassy eyes and slurred speech. The man said his permit allowed him to drive between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. and the vehicle must be equipped with a Baiid device, but police pulled him over around 1:30 a.m. The man said he went to a party at Pioneer Tap and there was an open bottle of liquor in his car. He was charged with an aggravated DUI, failure to signal, open alcohol, driving under the influence and having a revoked license.
Open alcohol
On March 1 around 1 a.m., police saw a man exit Pioneer Tap with a cup containing suspect alcohol. Police confirmed that the cup had alcohol in it and gave the man a local ordinance violation.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated Feb. 24 through March 1 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.
