As the Summit Police Department was pursuing a car for aggravated battery to a police officer in Chicago just before 2 a.m. on May 6, they requested additional units for backup. Forest Park police followed the offending car west on I-290 with help from Summit police and a Chicago police helicopter. Oak Brook police put spike strips on the road at Mannheim and the expressway, where the car popped its back tires and came to a stop. Police from Forest Park, Summit, Oak Brook, Chicago and the State Police surrounded the car and demanded its occupants get out several times, but they didn’t. Police broke the driver’s side window, and the passenger got out of the car. Police removed the driver from the car, who was taken into custody by Summit police.
Battery
Police responded to the CTA Blue Line terminus May 4 around 2:30 a.m. to remove someone from the property. There, a man was laying on the sidewalk outside the station, who told police K9 security broke his jaw. K9 staff denied the allegations and told police that the man was on a train that needed to be emptied but refused to exit several times. Staff said the man threw a Divvy bike toward them on the train and tried to punch them. Forest Park EMS arrived and took the man, who was complaining of leg pain, to Rush Oak Park Hospital. The man was charged with battery.
Possession of controlled substance
While performing a premise check at the CTA Blue Line terminus on May 4, police saw a man standing in the alcove area of the train as everyone else exited. Police asked the man if he had narcotics on him, and he said no and agreed to allow police to search him. Police found a glass pipe and suspect heroin on the man. He was charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and obstructing identification, as he originally gave a false name to police.
While on patrol May 4, police saw a car in the 7600 block of Roosevelt with an expired registration. Police pulled over the driver and reported that the car smelled of cannabis, and the driver confirmed there was some in the car. Police searched the vehicle and found over 12 grams of cannabis and two bags of suspect cocaine near the center console. The man was charged with an expired registration, possessing cannabis in a car outside an approved container, and possession of controlled substance.
During a premise check of the CTA Blue Line on May 5, police saw a woman holding a glass pipe on the train. When asked if she had narcotics on her, she said she had some dope, and police found multiple bags of suspect heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine on her, as well as multiple syringes. She was taken into custody and given a court date before being released from the police department. She was charged with two counts of possessing a controlled substance and one count of possessing drug paraphernalia.
Warrants
Police were dispatched to Circle and Jackson on May 5 around 4:30 p.m. for a fight in progress. Police detained a woman at the scene, who said she was in a garage in the 600 block of Hannah when another woman approached and punched her in a confrontation over a man. The woman was taken into custody for a warrant out of Cook County, which she was charged, along with a citation for fighting. The other woman said she was walking home when she saw the woman in her garage and had a verbal dispute with her. Police said the woman had a bloody lip, cuts and scrapes on her body, but didn’t admit to physically fighting the woman. She was given a local ordinance citation for fights and disturbances.
While on patrol May 6, police saw a car parked in the 7700 block of Roosevelt, and its owner was revealed to have no valid Illinois driver’s license and a warrant out of Cook County. When police approached the vehicle, the driver got out and gave police her license, which confirmed her serviceable warrant. The woman was detained and put in the squad car but started screaming for her three kids in her car. A male passenger got out of the car, and police reported that two unknown women came to the scene, claiming to be his sisters. When police asked the man to sit in the front of the squad car after he gave them a fake name, he took off running. Police found him in an alley in the 1100 block of Troost and took him into custody. He was charged with three counts of resisting officers and one count of obstructing identification. The woman was charged with her in-state warrant and not having a driver’s license. Someone was called to take custody of her three children, and police said a DCFS report would be completed.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated May 4 through May 7 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.