The afternoon of March 23, police responded to Forest Park Liquors on Madison Street for a customer dispute. The store clerk told police that a man had taken items from the store and attempted to conceal them. When the clerk said he wouldn’t sell him anything, the man knocked items off the shelf and tried to leave, but the clerk locked him in and called police. The clerk said the main threatened to kill him multiple times and broke the glass front door, so he let the offender leave because he feared for his life. Police took the man into custody and recovered a bottle of wine and tequila from his person. He was charged with retail theft.
Retail theft
The morning of March 24, police were dispatched to Walgreens on Roosevelt to address a woman who walked out of the store without paying for several items. Police found the woman in the 800 block of Harlem and that she had two serviceable warrants for her arrest out of Cook County. Police found over $50 of stolen food products in her purse, and she told them she is currently homeless and extremely hungry. She was charged with a warrant and retail theft.
Police were dispatched to the Dollar Tree on Roosevelt on March 26, where employees gave a description of a man. Police located him on Des Plaines and confirmed with the employee that the man didn’t buy five dish soaps, estimated to be worth $25. He was charged with retail theft.
Firearm surrender
Police were dispatched to the 1000 block of Des Plaines Avenue after a woman called to say that her ex-boyfriend, who’s a convicted felon and has firearms at the residence, was on his way to dispose of the guns. Police ran the man’s name and found him to be on parole for aggressive battery/discharge of a firearm, residential burglary and criminal damage to government property. The woman told police that she was cleaning the bedroom the day before and found four firearms in the bottom of the dresser. Police recovered the guns and made contact with the man’s parole officer, who said they’d do a compliance check with the man.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated March 23 through March 26 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.