A man told police that, while riding a Pace Bus on Nov. 7 in the 8200 block of Roosevelt Road, a man approached him, began yelling, and punched him once in the face. When the bus driver prevented the man from exiting the bus and called the police, the suspect pulled an emergency exit handle and climbed out the bus window. Police canvassed the area, but didn’t find the man. The victim denied medical attention and said he would sign complaints if the man is located. 

Aggravated unlawful use of a weapon  

On Nov. 7, the manager of Dunkin’ Donuts told police that a woman and three men came into the store and sat down. When she told them they had to purchase something in order to stay, they started yelling profanities, and she asked them to leave. On the way out, a man hit two napkin dispensers, which fell and broke. Police located the group running west on Central Avenue from Harlem and detained the suspects. When police were speaking with the man who knocked over the napkin dispensers, a call came through on the police radio that police found a firearm near the area where the suspects were stopped. The man stood up and started running while handcuffed, according to the police report. He was placed into custody and taken to the police department, where he was charged with criminal damage to property, resisting a police officer, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, obstructing identification, and four in-state warrants.  

Aggravated battery 

Police arrived at the Harlem/Lake Green Line stations, Nov. 7. There, a CTA conductor told police that a man struck the glass of the CTA booth while yelling at an employee inside. When the conductor intervened and asked the man to leave, the man grabbed him by the shirt and attempted to wrestle with him, according to the police report. The conductor identified the man, who was walking from the station. When police pursued the subject, he started running. Police detained him on Circle Avenue and reported that he smelled of alcohol. At the police station, the man yelled at officers, was physically resistant, and spit on one. He was charged with battery, aggravated battery of a police officer, and resisting an officer.  

Death investigation 

Police responded to an apartment unit on Randolph Street, Nov. 9, for a welfare check, requested by a man’s step-daughter and her husband. They told police they hadn’t heard from the man since Nov. 4, when he posted a political post on Facebook, according to the police report. The Forest Park Fire Department forced entry into the apartment to find trash on the floor and the man’s body in bed in an advanced state of decomposition, officials said. A CPAP machine was on, and the man was still wearing the mask. Family told police that the man had high blood pressure and heart disease. Police told M&M Property Management that the apartment would have to be cleaned as a biohazard.  

Cannabis possession with intent to deliver  

On Nov. 10, police responded to the 900 block of Troost Avenue after a call about a domestic battery incident. Upon arrival, police saw a car attempting to leave the property and parked behind it. A man got out of the car and fled on foot. A woman in the passenger seat told police that she was intoxicated, has a brain tumor, and was attacked by multiple women at S2 Grills in Maywood because of her boyfriend’s infidelity. She added that she was in the car to go to Walmart and fight the women and was not involved in a domestic battery incident with the man who fled. That man refused officers’ commands to stop running. Police saw the man toss a black case, which they found cannabis in, and took him to the police station. He was charged with four counts of resisting a police officer, possession of cannabis over 30 grams, and possession with intent to deliver cannabis. The woman told police she no longer wanted their services, and police told her to contact the Maywood Police Department about the S2 Grills incident.  

Assisting the fire department  

  • On Nov. 6, someone in the 400 block of Harlem Avenue called the police department to report smoke and a burning smell from a motion-sensor light’s wire in the rear of a building’s second floor. When the Forest Park Fire Department arrived, they determined there had been a wire shortage, and the circuit breaker needed to be turned off. They contacted the building’s landlord to do so.  
  • On Nov. 9, police were dispatched to the 7500 block of Adams Street. A woman called to report that, after drinking with her boyfriend in an apartment, she came back from the bathroom to find him unresponsive. The 62-year-old man was found lying unconscious on his back. He was naked on the floor, breathing shallowly, and had blood coming from his nose, according to the police report. The Forest Park Fire Department arrived and performed lifesaving measures before transporting him to Rush Oak Park Hospital, where he was stabilized. Police found a bag of white powder, suspect narcotics, on the floor of the apartment.  
  • On Nov. 10, police were dispatched to help locate a missing juvenile out of Bolingbrook who had previously been located at an address on Beloit Avenue. Police made contact with the boy, who told them his father took his phone, so he ran away. The boy’s mother came to the police station to pick him up.  

These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated Nov. 6 -10 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.