The evening of March 8, police received several 911 calls about a brush fire on the west side of the 600 block of Des Plaines Avenue, near the Howard Mohr Community Center parking lot. Police were unable to determine the cause of the fire, but a witness said that a man was walking through the area when the fire started. No one was charged at the time of the police report. 

Failure to register  

On March 2, police responded to the 600 block of Grove Lane around 1 a.m. after receiving a crime alert from a Ring security camera about a possible burglary there. A Ring video showed a man pulling the door handle of a residence. Police found the man in the Taco Bell parking lot on Harlem. The man confirmed the person in the video was him, that he was trying to stay warm and that he is homeless. Police ran the man’s name and discovered him to be a non-compliant sex offender who didn’t register in February. He was charged with failure to register as a sex offender. 

Domestic battery 

While on patrol in the area of Des Plaines Avenue and Roosevelt Road, police saw a car with its hazards on and a man in the driver seat waving at police. The man told police that he wanted his passenger removed after she hit him. He said she was highly intoxicated and became physical, slapping him several times, so he pulled over and told her to get out. The woman was on the scene and told police that they had been dating for a month and the man punched her three times, and police reported that the woman was hard to understand from her slurred speech and smelled of alcohol. Police did not see any physical injuries on the man or woman. They provided both with information on domestic violence and no one was charged.  

Downed power line 

On March 7 around 3:30 a.m., police responded to the 8300 block of Roosevelt Road for a downed power line in the middle of the street. Police helped block Roosevelt and reroute traffic until ComEd arrived to fix the power line. 

Downed man 

On March 7 around 3:30 p.m., police were rerouting traffic at Madison and Des Plaines when they saw a man fall on the sidewalk. Police reported that he was heavily intoxicated and unable to use his phone to call someone to pick him up. The Forest Park Fire Department responded and took him to Rush Oak Park Hospital.  

Battery 

Around 10:30 on March 7, police were dispatched to the CTA Blue Line station, where a man who appeared intoxicated told them four men attacked him while he was on the train near Harlem. Police reported that the man had a bump and bruise on the back of his head, a bloody lip and a red mark near his temple. A witness told police that he saw four men start smoking cannabis on the train, and when the other man told them to stop, they started hitting him. The offending men hadn’t been located at the time of this report.  

Open alcohol 

While patrolling the area of Lathrop and Madison just before midnight on March 7, police saw a woman standing next to an open car door, yelling at a man walking across Madison. The man started yelling at her and got in the driver’s seat, then police made contact with the two. Police saw an open bottle of Don Julio on the center console and cited the man for open alcohol. 

DUI 

Police were dispatched to the 200 block of Circle in the early hours of March 8 for a woman who was asleep at the wheel while her car was running. Police knocked on the car window and told the woman to exit the car. They reported that she smelled of alcohol and struggled to follow directions. Police asked her how much she drank and if she was at the St. Patrick’s Day parade, since she was wearing festive clothes, and she asked whether she had to answer. Though she initially refused standardized field sobriety tests, the woman later took them and showed clues of intoxication. The woman was taken to the police station and charged with a DUI, having an expired registration and illegal transportation of alcohol, since there were 15 open White Claws in her car. 

These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated March 2 through March 9 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.