Police responded to a call July 1 from a woman who, at McDonald’s, was approached by a man that she said kept trying to talk to her. After she left McDonald’s, she told police that the man followed her, quickening his pace when she did. The woman said that the man tried to talk to her again and grab her from behind. When police confronted the man, they learned he was a non-compliant sex offender, according to the police report. They arrested him for failure to register as a sex offender.

Battery

  • On July 3, police were dispatched to the 200 block of Harlem Avenue. A woman said she was meeting her friend there to return his Apple Watch. But when she approached his car, she told police that he said, “do not walk up on my vehicle like that,” grabbed her hair and hit her face. The man followed the woman as she retreated to her car, threw her purse and keys on the ground, then drove away, according to the police report. The woman didn’t come to the police department to photograph her injuries but said she would sign complaints against the man. 
  • On the same day, police were dispatched to the 900 block of Harlem Avenue, where a man and woman were fighting on the side of the street. The woman later told police that she and her ex-boyfriend were delivering Door Dash orders together. She said that, after she saw something in his phone that upset her, he grabbed her necklace, causing red marks around her neck, and kicked her out of the car in an attempt to strand her without a cell phone, as he had during past incidents. She got back in the car, and they continued driving before the woman threw her belongings out the window and exited the car. The man parked in the Crystal Car Wash parking lot and attempted to hit her with his car multiple times, she said. The woman told police she would sign complaints against the man.

Burglary from motor vehicle 

  • A woman told police that on July 1, she returned from work just after midnight and fell asleep in her locked car. When she woke up around 2:30 a.m., the passenger door was ajar and $20 was missing from her car’s center console. On July 3, she parked on the 500 block of Des Plaines Avenue. When she returned the following morning, her belongings were spread across the car’s passenger seat and floor, and the center console and glove box were open, according to the police report. She reported $15 and a pack of cigarettes missing, though she said she locked the car. While she said no one had access to her vehicle, she told police she thought the incidents were connected.  
  • On July 7, police responded to a burglary that occurred overnight in the 600 block of Elgin Avenue. A woman told police that she parked in the back driveway but left her car unlocked. When she returned in the morning, her Coach bag was missing. The purse is estimated to cost $378. 

In-state warrant 

While on patrol July 6, police received an alert for a driver with a warrant out of Lake County for felony retail theft. Police followed the offender into Crystal Car Wash and, when she parked at a vacuum stall, arrested her. The Lake Forest police arrived and took possession of the woman’s car and the offender, according to the police report. The woman has no charges in Forest Park. 

These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated July 1 through July 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.