Berwyn Police Blotter
Weapons-related
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Joggers shot with paintball gun
July 22, 2010, 8:52 PM
Two joggers flagged down an officer at 27th and Kenilworth to report they were shot multiple times by someone in a dark older vehicle occupied by several men. Red/orange paintball marks stained the victims’ clothing. After a car, answering the victims’ description, was seen blowing the stop sign at 27th and Wenonah, it was curbed by police. It was occupied by four men—one with red/orange paint stains on his face and hands. The driver consented to a search of the trunk, in which police found a paintball gun with red/orange paint residue. Police arrested driver David E. Maisonet, 19, of the 1400 block of Ridgeland; Noel Rivera, 19, of Lyons; Daniel Martinez, 19, of the 2700 block of Lombard, and Jose Rivera, 18, of the 2700 block of Grove. The car, a Corolla, was impounded.
After the arrestees were placed in cells, booking officers reported hearing the men laughing and joking about shooting the victims. All four men were charged with two counts of battery, two counts of criminal damage to property, and reckless conduct. In addition, the driver was charged with disregarding a stop sign. Police photographed the victims’ injuries.
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Saturday, July 31, 2010
Shot full of holes
July 20, 2010, 7:02 PM
In the 2200 block of East, east side, an overhead garage door was found with large—6 inches in diameter—holes shot through it, apparently by a pellet gun. The shots also damaged the door and rear bumper of a truck parked inside the garage.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Accused of cheating, wife responds with butcher knife
July 18, 2010, 10:03 PM
A 37-year-old man in the 2700 block of Clarence told police his wife had threatened to kill him. But his wife, age 43, told officers the husband began it by accusing her of cheating, then grabbing her arms and neck. The woman said she held a butcher knife to his throat, then threw it at him. The man refused to sign a complaint, but because of the injury he received on his finger, police charged the wife with domestic battery.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Armed man robs, pistol-whips Brookfield resident
July 11, 2010, 11:54 PM
Another gun-related incident, this time in the alley behind the 1400 block of Lombard. A 41-year-old Brookfield man told police he was in the driver’s seat of his Ford pickup truck, parked there with a friend in the passenger seat, when a man appeared “out of nowhere”, opened the driver’s door and stuck a small chrome gun to his left cheek. The robber demanded the victims’ keys, cell phones and wallets. When the driver told the robber, “Hold on a minute,” the offender struck him upside the head with the butt of the gun. Both victims gave up the requested items. The robber then fled on foot southbound through the alley.
The victims said the robber was a male black in his 30s, 5’9”, 235 lbs, dressed in a bright orange shirt, striped shorts and a dark baseball cap.
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Leg shot, mouth shut
July 11, 2010, 9:49 PM
Police responded to a call of shots fired outside Lucky Dog, Harlem and 16th. They found a man lying on the ground bleeding from his wounded left leg. According to the report, the victim refused to answer officers’ questions. Puddles of blood were found in a line from the north alley to where the victim lay on the north side of the restaurant.
Witnesses said a white two-door vehicle with a rear spoiler was involved, and described the two suspects as an Hispanic man and woman. The man, they said, had a semi-automatic handgun. Police recovered a 9MM Luger shell casing.
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
It’s just a flesh wound!
June 17, 2010, 3:49 PM
Police were summoned to MacNeal Hospital’s emergency room to talk to a man who received gunshot wounds while walking on 19th between Euclid and Wesley.
The 41-year-old man, a resident of the 1800 block of Euclid, told police “I got it under control. I don’t need you. I can deal with this on my own.” Well, maybe, except for the medical-treatment part: doctors told police the bullet entered the victim through the right testicle, passed into the left leg and exited the leg.
All the victim would say was that he was walking to a friend’s house when three men approached and one pulled out a gun. The victim described the gun as a black .38 revolver, and said he grabbed the gun to take it away but it went off, striking him in the testicle and leg. The offenders ran away, he said, and would say no more.
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Thursday, June 03, 2010
Gun in the grass
May 28, 2010, 12:25 PM
Officers patrolling the 6200 block of 26th St were stopped by a realtor, who asked for help checking on a vacant building because a window and a door were found open. Police found the building empty, but something shiny could be seen in the tall grass on the west side of the house. The realtor picked it up: it was a stainless steel Davis Industries .32 caliber derringer. Police took the gun.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Ogden Avenue liquor store robbed at gunpoint
April 20, 2010, 8 PM
The owner of Route 66 Liquors, 6845 Ogden, called police to report he was robbed at gunpoint. The victim, a 51-year-old Addison man, told police two men entered the store; one displayed a small black semi-automatic handgun and said, “Don’t do anything. Just open the register.” The second robber grabbed $1,000 from the drawer, demanded the victim open the lottery register, and removed $355 from that drawer. Finally, the robbers made the victim empty his pockets; they took his driver’s license, credit cards and $150 before fleeing the store. The victim said the gunman was a male black in his late 20s, 5’6"-5’8", with longer hair, wearing a black White Sox baseball cap, a black hoodie, dark blue jeans and black gym shoes with white piping. The second robber, the victim stated, was also a male black, dressed much like the first offender.
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
Armed robber fails to hide from cameras
April 1, 2010, 1:38 AM
A convenience store clerk told the police he was robbed at gunpoint by a man brandishing a black revolver in the 6600 block of 16th St. The robber demanded the $5 and $1 bills from the till, got $50 from the safe, then demanded the victim’s wallet, which contained $40. He also stole a carton of Newport cigarettes. The clerk told police that “the offender was kneeling behind the counter during the time he was there in an attempt to avoid the cameras or avoid anyone outside seeing him.” It was done in vain, however; surveillance cameras clearly captured the 5’6“ bald black male, with a black and white floral bandana over his nose and mouth, wearing a leather jacket.
-J. LeHane
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Monday, March 08, 2010
Serrated kitchen knife used by couple to rob woman
March 2, 2010, 9:11 PM
A 27-year-old Chicago woman told police she was robbed while walking to a gas station from a friend’s place. The victim said she saw a man and a woman out walking at 21st and Oak Park as she approached the gas station; when she reached the north Cermak alley at Euclid, the man grabbed her from behind and choked her while his female companion went through the victim’s pockets. The man put a serrated kitchen knife to the victim’s throat and said “Give use your money”, while the woman removed $60 from the victim’s pocket. The man then threw the victim to the ground and the offenders fled the scene. The victim described the offenders as follows: a male black, 25-30, 5’10” - 6 feet tall, thin, in a blue jacket, grey hoodie and blue jeans; and a female black, 25-30, thin, dark-skinned, dresed in a black jacket, black pants and black shoes.
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Saturday, March 06, 2010
A box of Newports and all the cash in the drawer, please
March 1, 2010, 9:39 PM
The clerk at a gas station in the 6700 block of Cermak reported being robbed at gunpoint. The victim described the offender as a male black, about 30 years old, 5’10”, medium build, wearing a black leather hat and a black leather coat. The offender, who was on his cell phone during the incident, approached the counter and requested a pack of Newport cigarettes, then displayed a black handgun and demanded cash. The clerk handed over approximately $600 from the register. The robber fled the scene westbound on Riverside Drive in a white vehicle.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Abduction, burglaries and a phony gun
Fake gun in waistband
February 15, 2010, 1:03 AM
Police arrived at Tiger O’Stylie’s in the 6300 block of Ogden expecting to find an armed patron with a pistol sticking out of his belt. Turns out Cesar Esteves, 24, of Stickney, was sporting a pellet gun—a replica of a black Beretta PX4 Storm. He was charged with disorderly conduct.
Residential Burglaries
February 15, 2010, 11:47 AM, 2:43 PM
Drawers were found open and ransacked in a building in the 3400 block of Highland. The resident was unclear what, if anything, was missing. Burglars broke the basement window with a rock. In the 1500 block of Elmwood, the bottom panels of a back door were smashed “with blunt force” and someone crawled through the opening and unlocked the door, removing three flatscreen televisions, a Playstation 3 game system and a Sony laptop. Neighbors told police they saw a black car on the garage apron.
Garage Burglaries
February 16, 2010, 1:55 AM, 5:45 PM
Two garage burglaries occurred two blocks apart on Clarence. Stolen from the 2500 block was a snowblower, large power drill and a bag of assorted tools. In the 2300 block someone made off with a new Igloo chest freezer (in box) a new-in-box card table with chairs, a bag of girls’ clothing and a folder of legal papers.
Lawn ornament removed
February 16, 2010 9:19 PM
A building owner told police he suspected that the person who stole the lawn ornament from the 1900 block of Euclid was an opponent in a legal dispute. The missing monument was described as a stone statue of a boy and girl on a bench.
Viaduct vandalism
February 17, 2010, 12:41 PM
Someone broke the plastic lenses in the pedestrian tunnel lights under the railroad tracks at 31st and Ridgeland. Graffiti in black magic marker was also discovered.
Garage burglaries
February 17, 2010, 1:34 PM, 5:57 PM
A damaged overhead garage door was the entry point in a burglary in the 1600 block of Wisconsin. Stolen were two Lajobi baby cribs, a two-ton floor jack, two wet-vacs, an air compressor and battery charger as well as miscellaneous hand tools and car electrical parts. In the 1900 block of Wesley, a service door was broken in half with locks damaged and the frame pried off. The victims gave police a list of missing items.
Woman abducted; “Now we have a new friend!”
February 17, 2010, 4:58 PM
A 26 year old woman told police she was grabbed from behind at Cermak and Euclid and forced into a car by a 40-year-old husky, short white male with a grayish beard. The kidnapper allegedly told her “now you’re going to suck my @#$%” and displayed his penis, trying to push her head down into his lap. She resisted and he then reached into her shirt and fondled her, while driving through Berwyn. He then headed into North Riverside and took her to a house telling her, “Sit down on the couch. If you scream I’ll hurt you.” A second woman appeared whom the man introduced as “Tiffany” telling her, “Now we have a new friend.” Both abductors left the room and the woman called a former boyfriend asking him to call police. The subject returned and allegedly “asked if she know any young girls or had any children.” He “stated he wanted to meet [the woman’s] daughter and she told him “that would never happen.” When police called the woman’s phone, “Tiffany” answered the call and, impersonating the victim, allegedly told them she was “fine.” However, the phone call upset the couple and the woman told police the man loaded her back into his car and dropped her off at her employer, a tax service.
-J. LeHane
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Teamwork
January 12, 2010, 11:22 AM
A 21-year-old man told police, via a translator, that he was jumped and robbed at 16th and Euclid. The victim said he was walking down 16th on the south side of the street with a black four-door vehicle with tinted windows pulled up beside him. Three men wearing black ski masks jumped out and grabbed him; one held him at knifepoint while the others restrained him by the arms and went through his pockets. One of the assailants, the victim said, hit the back of his neck, causing him to fall to the ground. The robbers got away with the victim’s wallet, which, he said, contained his Mexican ID and $300 cash.
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Taco y Stick: stars of surveillance vid
January 1, 2010
A Cicero man went to a gas station at Harlem and Roosevelt, where, he said, he was confronted by two drunken men—one with a neck tattoo. They managed to persuade him to give them a ride eastbound on Roosevelt. When they reached the 6300 block, though, one of the men punched the victim in the stomach and ordered him to “get out of the f@%&ing car and give me the keys”. When the victim complied, the offenders drove away eastbound in the black Aveo belonging to the victim’s girlfriend.
Police were able to view surveillance video featuring the offenders back at the gas station. The neck-tattoo guy popped up in a search of the state criminal database as a Melrose Park resident. Berwyn police met with their Melrose Park counterparts to play the video. The Melrose Park cops took a look at the neck-tattoo guy and said “That’s Taco!’, a man familiar to them as a member of a well-known street gang; the officers also recognized the second offender as another Melrose Park gangbanger with the street name “Stick”. The investigation is ongoing.
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Thursday, January 07, 2010
Man loses girlfriend’s mom’s car to carjacker
December 31, 2009, 6:30 AM
A 23-year-old man in the 2100 block of Euclid told police he had just moved his girlfriend’s mother’s Nissan Murano, parked it and exited the vehicle, when he was confronted by a man who demanded “gimme the keys or I’ll shoot you!” The victim, who said the offender implied the presence of a weapon, gave up the car keys. The offender reportedly told him to “start running”, then fled northbound in the stolen vehicle. The victim described the offender as a male black, 5’9” to 5’10”, 150-180 lbs, dressed in black jeans, black boots, and a black parka with a fur-trimmed hood.
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