Berwyn Police Blotter
Weapons-related
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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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Day’s receipts don’t quite make it to the bank
December 15, 2009 12:30 AM
A 25-year-old woman told police she had just closed the dollar store in Cermak Plaza and attempted to deposit the day’s cash intake at the bank when she was accosted by an armed robber. The woman reported she drove to Fifth Third bank, followed by a female coworker, with the nightly cash drop—totalling $3,500—inside a clear plastic bag. As she approached the bank’s business drop box, she said, a masked man ran around the corner of the building carrying what appeared to be a black rifle. The woman said that when she saw the man, she threw the bag of cash into the bushes, ran in front of her coworker’s car and yelled “Leave! Get out of here!” then tried to enter her own car. She then tried to enter her own car, she said, but before she could shut the door, the man pointed the gun in her face and demanded the money. The woman said she told him she threw it; she watched as the man checked the bushes and grabbed the money bag, then fled westward. The woman described the robber as a male black, 5"11- 6 feet tall, wearing a ski mask, jeans and a black jacket with a red and white design on the sleeve.
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Armed robbery attempt at 15th and Oak Park
December 11, 2009, 10:49 PM
A 23-year-old Addison man told police he was approaching his silver Mercedes SUV, parked at 15th and Oak Park, when a masked man came up to him, displayed a gun and said “give me the car keys”. The victim said he struck at the robber and tried to run to safety. As the victim crossed 15th, a light-color van tried to strike him. The robber entered the van, which fled the scene. The victim described the robber as a male black, 20-25 years old, over 6 ft. tall about 170 lbs, wearing dark clothing and a mask; the driver and passenger in the getaway van were described as similar in appearance and clothing.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Salon robbed at gunpoint
November 4, 2009, 1:01 PM
A worker at Adam and Eve salon, 2144 Clarence, told police a woman robbed the business at gunpoint. The offender was described as a female black in sunglasses and dark clothing, about age 30, 5’7” and 150-160 lbs, who entered the salon, placed a large black gun to the victim’s chest and said “give me all your money”. The victim told police she removed $100 from the store cashbox and handed it to the robber, who fled the scene.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Really poor aim
October 19, 2009, 8:36 PM
Callers reported hearing shots fired in the 6400 block of 16th, upon which, they said, multiple male teens fled in different directions. Witnesses told officers two groups of male Hispanic teens fought on the block. Police recovered seven shell casings. The victim, a 19-year-old male with a streetgang name of “Casper”, was later located at Loyola medical center with a gunshot wound that traveled in one side of his left leg and out the other. The victim told police he and three companions were driving in Cicero around 6 PM when they pulled in front of a house on 59th* “near Paisan’s” and asked the males they encountered there whether they “gangbang”. The victim said the subjects responded to the inquiry by throwing a bottle at the car and yelling the slogan of a well-known street gang. Two hours later, while westbound on 16th, the victim and his companions spotted the same teens they had seen earlier, so they stopped to confront them. A fight began, during which one teen pulled out a gun and fired six to seven shots, only one of which struck the victim. The shooter was described as male Hispanic with shoulder-length hair, a black hoodie, and a gold baseball cap bearing New York Yankees symbols.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Three-man team robs gas station
October 2, 2009, 7:25 PM
A female cashier at the Minute Man gas station, 16th and Lombard, reported an armed robbery. She said three young men—one armed with a black handgun—demanded that she “open the register and get out of the way”, then made off with about $1,200 in cash and an unknown amount of credit card receipts before they fled south on Lombard. The robbers were described as male blacks in their mid to late teens.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Man charged with murder in brother’s stabbing death
September 27, 2009, 1:44 PM
Police were sent to 2630 Oak Park Avenue on reports of a possibly injury during an altercation between two brothers. They were met in front by two witnesses: a 20-year-old woman and an 18-year-old man. The woman told police, “My boyfriend is bleeding and needs help” and pointed to a house in which she said the offender could be found.
Police then saw a shirtless 18-year-old male emerge from the house pointed out by the woman; he was crying and reportedly made the unsolicited statements, “I didn’t mean to” and “He was trying to attack my pregnant girlfriend”. As officers checked Alexander Yracheta, 18, for weapons, the 20-year-old woman screamed, “You killed my boyfriend!”
Dispatchers reported a bleeding and unresponsive man, possibly suffering stab wounds, at 2430 Oak Park. When police attempted to go to the house, they were met by an aggressive 80-100 lb pitbull. The dog ran toward the woman, who jumped inside an unsecured squad car and shut the door. The pitbull then turned around and ran toward paramedics who were just getting out of their ambulance. The paramedics immediately got back into the ambulance and shut the door. Next, the pitbull turned on the 18-year-old male witness, who fell down as the dog jumped on top of him and actively tried to bite him as the man tried to hold the dog away by its collar. The pitbull next turned aggressively on police officers, who shot the dog three times before it gave up; the dog died.
The victim’s father led police into the house. Anthony Yracheta, 22, was taken to the emergency room at Loyola medical center, where he was pronounced dead at 2:17 AM. Alexander Yracheta was charged with first degree murder.
The victim, a
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Brass knuckles
August 31, 2009, 9:06 PM
Callers complained to police of pot smoking and loud noise in a yard in the 1900 block of Oak Park. As an officer approached the yard from the alley, several subjects noticed him and ran inside the residence. Two males stayed seated in lawn chairs in the yard. A small yellow plastic bag at the feet one of man appeared to contain cannabis. During an officer safety patdown, the man was found to be carrying brass knuckles in his pocket. Police asked Rodney Harris, 24, of 1926 Oak Park, why he carried such an item. Harris reportedly told them it was because “these little Mexicans like to f@&# with me”. When police asked Harris whether he used the item to fight, Harris allegedly replied, “Hell, yeah!” Harris was charged with unlawful use of a weapon and disorderly conduct. The second man—Patrick D. Smyth-Lymon, 24, 1936 Kenilworth—was charged with disorderly conduct.
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Armed robbers in alley
August 29, 2009
Two men told police they saw a blacked-out Tahoe traveling southbound in the 1500 block of Harvey/Lombard alley, occupied by two male blacks in dark clothing and ski masks. The subjects exited the vehicle, approached the victims and demanded one man’s wallet at gunpoint. The robbers got away with $100 and a credit card.
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Give it back!
August 14, 2009, 4:16 PM
A caller reported a robber with a gun at a nail salon in the 7100 block of Roosevelt. Police spoke to the caller, a Chicago woman, who said a female black or Hispanic, 30-40 years old, 5’6”, with shoulder-length brown hair and eczema on her arms, enter her mom’s nail business and demanded all the money in the register. Mom refused; the daughter, feeling scared, opened the register and handed over about $500. The robber fled on foot eastbound with mom in pursuit.
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