Before 3 p.m. on Oct. 3, police were dispatched to Ferrara Pan on Harrison Street for a burglary. A supervisor at the candy factory told police that multiple female employees reported that items had been stolen from their lockers. One woman reported a missing wallet with $300 in it, another reported $600 missing, and a third reported a stolen ID, credit card, engagement ring, watch and $100. While a few employees and the sanitation supervisor have master keys, the latter said he hadn’t been in the locker room in over a month. An employee found three locks in the trash can of the women’s locker room, but officers observed no damage to the locks. Police requested access to video surveillance, and no one was charged at the time of the report.
Motor vehicle theft
The morning of Oct. 2, police responded to the 1000 block of Des Plaines Avenue for an attempted motor vehicle theft report. There, police met a man who reported that his rear passenger window was broken and the steering column was peeled sometime after he parked his car in the Des Plaines lot around 1 a.m. He said nothing was stolen from his car but wanted to sign complaints if an offender was located.
On Sept. 29, police were dispatched to the 500 block of Des Plaines for a burglary to a motor vehicle. The front passenger window of a Dodge Challenger was shattered. The owner said nothing was stolen, but that his key fob no longer works, so he thinks someone tried to reprogram his vehicle. He said he’d sign complaints if the offender was located.
Criminal defacement of property
The afternoon of Oct. 2, a woman living in the 1000 block of Des Plaines Avenue reported feces on the door and floor in front of a unit at her residence. The woman told police that she thinks the ex of the person who lives in the unit is responsible, since there have been numerous complaints from surrounding tenants about the couple’s behavior.
Aggravated battery
The evening of Oct. 1, police were dispatched to the Chipotle on Madison to remove an unwanted man who was argumentative with staff. According to the police report, the same man was removed from a Harlem Avenue location earlier that day. Police said the man was irate and intoxicated, so they requested he leave Chipotle. When he walked away from the business, the man turned and threw liquid from a plastic cup at a police officer’s face, then ran away. Police chased the man, caught him, and put him in custody as he twisted his body to resist arrest. He was charged with aggravated battery of a police officer and four counts of resisting police.
On Sept. 30 at 11 p.m., police were dispatched to the CTA Blue Line terminal to remove a man who was indecently exposing himself. CTA K-9 security identified the man for Forest Park police and told them the man exposed his penis on the train platform. When CTA security asked the man to leave, he became aggressive and lunged at security while making threats. He punched one of them with a closed fist, and that officer wanted to sign complaints against the man. The man was taken into custody and charged with aggravated battery, public indecency and an in-state warrant.
DUI
While police were on patrol around 1 a.m. on Sept. 29, they saw a vehicle on Des Plaines change lanes without a turn signal, then get on I-290 without a turn signal. Police pulled the car over and reported that the driver’s eyes were bloodshot and watery, and he smelled like alcohol. Police ran the man’s name and found he had a revoked license for a DUI. Police asked the man to get out of the car. He complied but pulled his arms away from officers as they tried to handcuff him and tensed his body when they tried to put him in the back of the police car. Upon checking the man’s vehicle, police found a half-full bottle of vodka in the backseat. The man told police that he was at Mugsy’s with his brother and consumed one beer there. He was charged with two aggravated DUIs (one for having multiple violations and another for driving with a revoked license), having a revoked license, failure to signal, resisting police, attempting to flee police, aggravated battery of a police officer, and illegal transportation of alcohol.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated Sept. 28 through Oct. 4 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.