On April 27, police responded to a car accident in the 7200 block of Circle Avenue around 9:30 p.m. According to police, the driver of the offending vehicle smelled of alcohol and had difficulty retrieving his driver’s license when requested. He was unable to follow instructions during standardized field sobriety tests, so police took him into custody. The man told police he’d been drinking at Shortstop and Circle Inn and, at the police station, performed a breath test that revealed his BAC to be 0.234. He was charged with a DUI, having a BAC over 0.08, and operating an uninsured car.
Open alcohol
Around 2:30 a.m. on May 3, police responded to the 7500 block of Roosevelt after mall security said there was a car parked in the lot without any registration. Police approached the car and saw a man sleeping in the driver’s seat and an open bottle of tequila on the passenger’s side floor. Police attempted to wake the man, who slept through commands to get out of the vehicle but eventually did with officers’ help. Police reported that the man had slurred and delayed speech, and he was cited with a local ordinance citation for open alcohol.
Domestic battery
Police were dispatched to the 100 block of Lathrop Avenue on April 30 after a caller reported he could hear a woman yelling from a neighboring unit. Police reported that the address had a history of domestic battery and the male resident had an active order of protection against him. Upon arriving to the residence, police heard a couple fighting. A man opened the door, and police reported him to be sweating and have scratch marks on his neck, and later observed the woman also had scratches on her neck. The woman told police that she and the man got into a verbal argument about her cat meowing too much. The man was charged with domestic battery and violating the woman’s order of protection. Police provided the woman with an Illinois Domestic Violence Act Information Sheet and information for Sarah’s Inn.
Possession or delivery of controlled substances
While conducting a premise check April 30 at the CTA Forest Park Blue Line station, police saw a woman standing in an alcove area, where riders commonly conceal themselves to ingest narcotics, according to police. Police approached the woman and asked her to empty her pockets, which contained a glass pipe, and found several syringes in a plastic bag she was carrying, some of which contained suspect heroin. Police took the woman into custody, where she was charged with possession of controlled substance and drug paraphernalia. She told police she was homeless, rides the CTA train, and has been addicted to heroin for 25 years.
While performing a premise check of the Forest Park Blue Line CTA station on April 28, police approached a man in a train car alcove who was holding a tissue up to his nose and inhaling. Officers approached the man and asked to search him, which he consented to. They found 10 bags of suspect crack cocaine and heroin on the man, and when he was in custody, a notebook detailing multiple narcotics sales. He was charged with two counts of possessing a controlled substance, possessing drug paraphernalia, and one count of manufacturing or delivering controlled substances.
Criminal damage to property
Police responded to Thornton’s gas station on Harlem around 4 a.m. on April 29 for disorderly conduct. The caller told police that the man was harassing customers for money and knocked over a display case, after being removed and trespassed from the same location twice already that day. Police located the man near Madison and Maple and detained him after he tried to run away. A Thornton’s employee signed complaints against the man for criminal trespass and criminal damage to property, which he was charged with, along with resisting police.
Leaving scene property damage
Police were dispatched to the 1100 block of Circle Avenue on April 28 after a woman reported that her vehicle was hit by a white Range Rover that then drove away. Police found the address of the offending vehicle and started towing it at 12:30 a.m. on April 29. Before the car could be hooked to the tow truck, the vehicle’s owner approached and asked why the car was being towed. When police told her about the hit and run, she admitted to being in an accident the day before. The car was towed, and the woman was charged with leaving the scene of a property damage accident, having expired registration, operating a car with suspended registration, operating an uninsured car, and having a suspended driver’s license.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated April 27 through May 3 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.