Man escapes after kicking woman in Des Plaines Ave. parking lot 

Police responded to the 300 block of Des Plaines the morning of March 22 after getting several 911 calls that a man was hitting and kicking a woman who was on the ground in a parking lot. Police found the woman bleeding on the ground, with her crying child, along with several neighbors and witnesses. The offending man had fled. In the ambulance, the woman told police that she lived with the man, who has repeatedly threatened her life and whom she has an order of protection against. When she left her apartment that morning, the man attacked her in the parking lot, hitting her in the head and face. Officers searched the area for the man with negative results, and the woman signed complaints against him for battery and violating her order of protection.  

Battery 

Police were dispatched to the CTA Forest Park el station after a man called to report that a K9 security employee battered him. The man told police he was asleep on the train on his way to work at O’Hare when the security officer told him to get off the train. The man said he refused, then security pulled him out of his seat and punched him in the face. The security employee said, when he told the man to exit the train, the man refused and pushed him, so he hit him. The employee said the man continued to try to harm him, so he acted in self-defense by hitting him again. Police reported that the victim had visible swelling and lacerations on his face, and that he may have been under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. Police requested security footage from the CTA to corroborate claims, and both parties wished to sign complaints against the other. Because the CTA-contracted K9 officer said he was acting in self-defense, and a witness confirmed that the man on the train was aggressive toward security, no one was placed in custody at the time of the report.  

Robbery 

Police were dispatched to the CTA Forest Park Blue Line station on March 21. There, a man told police he was sleeping on the train and woke up to a man trying to steal his backpack, who then punched him in the face. Police canvassed the area with negative results. 

The morning of March 20, a man came to the police department to report that, around 11 p.m. the night before, he was walking on Madison Street and was robbed at gun point by an unknown man. The man demanded his wallet, which the victim handed over, before running away. The victim said he’d sign complaints if the man was located. 

Assisting police 

Just before 9 p.m. on March 21, police were dispatched to the 800 block of Thomas for a group of drunk teenagers, one of whom was on the ground throwing up. When police arrived, one young woman was extremely intoxicated and had a hard time giving her information to police but eventually gave her phone password. Police called her parents, and the teen’s father came to get her from Rush Oak Park Hospital. Police spoke with a Thomas Avenue homeowner, who said his daughter and her high school friends had a party at his house that day. He added that the group outside the home had just arrived and did not come inside his house, and that no alcohol was provided during the party at his house. No one was charged. 

Delivering cannabis 

While on patrol the evening of March 19, police saw a car on Jackson Boulevard traveling at a high rate of speed with windows tinted darker than the Illinois Vehicle Code allows. Police pulled over the car and reported that the inside smelled of cannabis. Police asked if the driver had any cannabis in the car, and he produced a bag of cannabis that wasn’t in an odor- or child-proof container. Police asked the man to get out of the car and searched it, finding 23 similar plastic bags of cannabis, later found to way 270 grams. Police determined that amount and the plastic bags were consistent with intent to distribute cannabis. The man was charged with violating the Illinois Vehicle Code, possessing cannabis in a car outside its approved container, possessing over 100 grams of cannabis, and intent to deliver cannabis.  

These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated March 17 through March 22 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.