Police are reporting no new developments in the string of thefts and burglaries that have occurred in recent weeks to resident's homes, cars and garages, but some thefts and general mayhem has been reported of late.
A male black with a light mustache, about 35 years of age, got away after stealing a carton of cigarettes from the 7-Eleven at 201 W. Hillgrove Ave. at about 1:30 a.m. Aug. 19. The suspect, whom police could not locate, was wearing a Chicago Bears jersey and blue jeans at the time.
A Public Works Department employee on his morning rounds Aug. 18 discovered graffiti on planter boxes near the downtown fountain at 53 S. La Grange Road. The marker or carton etching was simply the word "zero." The vandalism was found just before 9 a.m. Non-gang graffiti, written with a black marker, was also discovered on the back exit door of a store in the first block of Burlington Avenue, it was reported just before 1 p.m. Aug. 17. And at 9:41 p.m. Aug. 15, a resident of the 300 block of East Lincoln Avenue reported one of their landscaping lights was vandalized and found in a lawn about three houses away. It was believed kids on their way to the downtown business district may be responsible for the damage.
Although not as destructive as graffiti or vandalism, a vehicle was egged on 41st Street just west of Dover Avenue at about 3:40 a.m. Aug. 20. But just as bad three days earlier, a resident in the 900 block of South 8th Avenue reported their 2009 Nissan Versa was keyed sometime between Aug. 7 and 15. The same vehicle was keyed in two previous incidents.
Someone's storage unit was also broken into for the third time in the past two weeks, it was reported just before 6:30 p.m. Aug. 13. The break-in occurred in the first block of South Spring Avenue. And over in La Grange Park, an alarm was activated at a residence in the 600 block of North Kensington Avenue at 2:26 a.m. Aug. 15. When police arrived, they found a rear door ajar.
Bricks were reported stolen from a construction site in the Avenue, it was reported shortly before 10 a.m. Aug. 19. Two days earlier, someone went outfirst block of West Cossitt Avenue to their car at about 10:30 a.m. to find it had been burglarized overnight. Several items were reported missing.
News of the weird
Someone threw a wet telephone book at a patio window in the 800 block of South La Grange Road just before 8 p.m. Aug. 17. Go figure.
A Riverside woman was driving underneath the Ogden Avenue bridge at Tilden and Shawmut avenues at about 9 p.m. Aug. 13 when she reported "some type of substance" was dropped on her car from up above. Turns out it was an egg and, of course, there was no permanent damage.
Oddly enough, a 16-year-old Countryside boy was cited with two disorderly conduct ordinance tickets after someone witnessed him running from the same intersection (as above) just as their car got hit with an egg. David Holloway, of 5700 S. Madison Ave., was located by police at Calendar and Washington avenues, ticketed and turned over to his mother.
Poor kitty
An obviously distraught Elm Avenue resident learned the whereabouts of her reported missing cat on the afternoon of Aug. 19, when the pet's leather collar was returned to her. Seems a Public Works Department employee brought in to the Police Department the collar with a heart tag attached to it, informing them the cat was found to have been disposed of in a Dumpster behind their facility on East Avenue that day. The owner was told the cat was involved in an accident.
A 16-year-old boy and his friend told police they were riding their bicycles in the parking lot of McDonald's, 100 N. La Grange Road, shortly before 10 p.m. Aug. 18 when a woman in a silver Mitsubishi tried to hit them with her vehicle before she took off west on Ogden Avenue. One of the boys said she struck his foot. The woman, about 30, was wearing a red shirt, but police called to the scene were unable to locate any such person.
Peeping Tom?
A resident of the 200 block of South 7th Avenue told police a neighbor called to tell him they saw a tall white man in his 20s or 30s looking into the porch windows of his house at about 10:55 p.m. Aug. 17. The man was wearing a t-shirt with red lettering or a design on it and a large star on the back.
A woman visiting Thipi Thai, 50 S. La Grange Road, told police she believes she left her black and brown purse, with a silver heart on it, on the floor of the restaurant during lunch that day and returned to find it missing. The handbag contained three credit cards, house and office keys, a drivers license and miscellaneous business cards and papers. The report was made to police at about 10 p.m. that night.
Don't leave the kids in the car
Two ordinance violation tickets were issued to mother Sheila Hoffman of 301 Bluff Ave., Apt. 2E in La Grange, after a 911 caller reported seeing a black Ford with an unattended infant in the passenger seat while it was parked near La Grange Road and Ogden Avenue at about 10:10 p.m. Aug. 14. Oops?
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