Berwyn Police Blotter
Drugs, alcohol, DUI
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Car stopped for resemblance to gang-shooter vehicle; driver charged with possession
September 21, 2008, 12:11 AM
An officer noticed a car traveling south on Oak Park Avenue in the 3800 block because it matched the description of one used in a gang shooting on September 10th in the 1600 block of Elmwood: a pearl Cadillac Deville. A patdown of driver Edgar Gomez, 24, of the 2400 block of south Avers, Chicago, recovered a bag containing 1.0 grams of marijuana; he was ticketed for possession. The four passengers were sent on their way; they were a 20-year-old man and a 18-year-old woman from Stickney; a 19-year-old man from the 3500 block of Scoville; and a 19-year-old man from the 3600 block of Euclid.
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Slob action
September 20, 2008, 6:50 PM
An officer noticed a dark blue Dodge Intrepid westbound on Vacin at Grove because the driver tossed a green bottle out his window. After curbing the car, the officer asked the driver why he did it. Carlos Herrera*, 30, of 2722 Clarence, replied that he was “too lazy” to throw it in the garbage. The Heineken beer bottle was recovered and properly disposed of. Herrera was charged with transporting open alcohol—for which the car was impounded—and with littering.
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Modelo find leads to traffic stop
September 20, 2008, 2:46 AM
An officer patrolling the 2600 block of Highland shone his flashlight into a black Nissan Maxima and noticed an open 12-pack of Modelo beer in back, as well as a plastic bag on the floor with open beers in it. The officer circled the block; on his return, he saw the Maxima pulling away, so he made it pull over. Beer cans still stood where the car had been parked. The bag on the floor, containing the open beers, was still in the car when it was stopped. Driver Joe B. Vallejo, 21, of the 5700 block of south Sawyer, Chicago, was charged with transportation of open alcohol. The car was impounded.
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Drugs, cash found on “nervous” man at Oktoberfest
September 19, 2008, 10:19 PM
Police received information that a wanted man was standing by the stage at Oktoberfest, near Windsor and Grove. Officers spotted a man matching the description given and spoke to him, noting he appeared nervous. Timothy M. Reinke, 46, of Cicero, was wanted on active arrest warrants out of Stickney and Cook County. A custodial search of his person recovered 10 clear baggies of chunky cocaine—a total of 23 grams—as well as $404 in cash. Reinke was processed for the warrants and charged with felony possession of a controlled substance.
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After-work plan: Buy drugs. Do drugs. Repeat.
September 19, 2008, 12:27 PM
Concerned citizens alerted police to three men asleep in a silver PT cruiser parked at Burger King, Cermak and Oak Park. An officer woke the driver and ask him, “are you OK?” The driver said he was, but added, “I’ll be honest with you, we came here for dope but didn’t get any”. When asked whether there was any contraband in the car, the driver reportedly said that, in the console, there were some needles and a cooker he uses to cook heroin. He also stated that he and his companions used heroin earlier in the day.
After backup officers arrived on the scene, police asked the driver and the front seat passenger to exit the car; the man in the rear seat slept on. On the front passenger side, police saw a syringe with an exposed needles on the floor. The driver was Brandon R. Buginas, 29, of Montgomery. The front passenger was Jason E. Doerries, 28, of La Grange. Police then woke the rear passenger—Joseph M. Ziemer, 19, of Aurora—and got him out of the car also.
The console contained a silver hard eyeglass case which held four hypodermic syringes, cotton swabs, and a metal lid or bottle cap with an improvised handle, which had a greyish-brown residue. In the back seat lay a black sweatshirt. In its front pocket was a Newport cigarette box containing a glass marijuana pipe. Ziemer reportedly said the back seat items belonged to him. All three were arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia.
Further search of the PT Cruiser located a prescription bottle of 13 blue pills in the rear compartment; the prescription was in the name of a man from the 4000 block of west Maypole, Chicago, and the label said “CLONAZEPAM 1 MG.” On the front passenger floor was a black duffle bag. It held a CD case which contained a plastic bag of two smaller plastic bags containing white powder which tested positive for heroin. There was also a $1 bill wrapped around a pill police suspected was “Ecstasy”. There was also a bag of marijuana.
After hearing his rights, Buginas told police he left work—FJR News in North Aurora—with co-worker Ziemer. They picked up Doerries, then drove to an undisclosed location in Chicago and purchased Heroin. With the heroin, they drove to the forest preserve at Roosevelt and 1st Avenue, where Buginas said he cooked two $10 bags of the drug and injected them into himself, then injected 3 or 4 $10 bags into Doerries because, he said, Doerries was afraid to do it himself.
Next, the three men drove to another undisclosed location to buy marijuana, returned to the same forest preserve, and were scared when they saw a forest preserve police car in the lot. They managed to get pulled over, but the forest preserve cop let them go with a warning to wear seat belts. They drove away, all three smoking marijuana as they went. Nobody was quite certain about how they ended up in Berwyn at a Burger King.
When asked how he acquired the Clonazepam, Buginas reportedly stated he goes to a bus stop in the area of Madison and Pulaski in Chicago, where one may purchase Xanax, Clonazepan, downers or methadone. He told detectives he buys pills when he cannot afford heroin, to “take the edge off.” The officer showed him a pill; Buginas stated, “it’s probably Clonazepam,” adding that the “white bars in the bottle are Xanax”. When police showed him there were no “white bars”, Buginas reportedly said “there should be three or four. Wow—I must not remember using them.”
Buginas, Ziemer and Doerries were charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.
Buginas was charged with one felony count of possession of a controlled substance. Doerries was charged with two felony counts of possession of a controlled substance. Police had the PT Cruiser towed; it will be held for possible seizure for use in the commission of a crime.
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Battle over boyfriend won’t just blow over
September 18, 2008, 12:14 AM
Police answered a call of “women fighting” in the 3100 block of Harlem, and found two females yelling at each other: a 25-year-old Riverside woman, and a 25-year-old from the 3800 block of Wenonah. The Berwyn woman was extremely intoxicated, and had thrown the Riverside woman’s purse onto Harlem avenue. She also reportedly punched the other woman in the face. The fight was over the boyfriend of one combatant; his girlfriend accused the other woman of engaging in oral sex with the man (who fled when caught in flagrante). The Berwyn woman was arrested; on the way to the police station, she told the officer, “I want your gun to kill myself!” She was charged with battery.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Barbershop bust: pair wanted for burglary, domestic battery, found with drugs
September 15, 2008, 7:33 PM
Police learned that two brothers wanted for burglary, among other things, in three municipalities, were to be found in the barbershop at 15th and Oak Park Ave. Tactical officers pulled up to the barbershop and could see the younger brother seated near the door. The older brother was already being groomed in a barber chair.
The officers entered the shop, secured the younger man and put him on his knees. Ryan Malik, 19, of Summit, was seen reaching into his pants pocket to remove a clear bag; the bag contained nine smaller bags of cocaine, with a total weight of 5.4 grams. Ryan Malik also had $5,000 cash on his person; this was held for seizure by police.
During the arrest of Robert Malik, 28, of Summit, police recovered a bag containing 1.7 grams of marijuana, as well as $820 cash, and $10 in antique dimes; the coins dated from as early as 1919.
Ryan Malik was charged with one felony count of possession of a controlled substance. Robert Malik was charged with domestic battery and criminal damage to property from a previous Berwyn incident, as well as with possession of cannabis. More charges may be lodged after detectives from other towns talk with the two offenders.
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Near-accident as Chrysler barrels past stop sign
September 14, 2008, 1:41 AM
An officer saw a black Chrysler traveling east on 24th at a very high speed. The car blew past the stop sign at Ridgeland and was nearly struck by two vehicles. After the car was curbed at Cuyler, the officer saw a six-pack of beer on the front seat, with some open. A large pool of liquid was on the back floorboard, and a strong smell of alcohol wafted throughout the car. Driver Matthew Morgan, 21, of the 3700 block of Highland, was charged with blowing the stop sign and transporting open alcohol. The Chrysler was impounded for the latter offense.
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Brujeria en la bolsa
September 12, 2008, 1:24 AM
Police were dispatched the World’s Largest Laundromat, on Cermak at Highland, on reports a man was acting “weird” and scaring customers. A worker pointed out a man standing about 30 feet in front of the laundromat. The worker said the man was acting “crazy” and had tried to use a lighter to set his clothes on fire while he was still inside the business. Police saw the man was wearing a sign around his neck that read, “reserved”.
When the man saw police, he picked up a blue plastic bag and started to reach inside it as he approached them. Police commanded him to slowly remove his hand from the bag. The man then threw the bag into a cement flowerpot. He was told to step away from the bag. According to police, the man began to “ramble” in Spanish, then he picked up the bag, reentered the laundromat and ignored commands to stop and drop the bag.
Once inside the building, the man ran, forcing police to chase him through the business and out the back door onto Vacin. The man sprinted across Vacin, ran north in the 2100 block of Highland, then turned east into a gangway. An officer caught up to him and grabbed his foot, but the man kicked him several times in the leg and stomach. Police Tasered him once with no result; after a second application of the Taser, he was still resisting vigorously. A third Tasering was ineffective because of the metal “reserved” sign the man wore under his shirt. Police reports stated he appeared to under the influence of something, because his behavior and strength were abnormal. Finally—after the man stopped and took up what police called “an aggressive fighting stance”, then advanced on police—a sergeant struck him in the head. The man was handcuffed.
He was Daniel Lopez, 25, of the 2200 block of south 61st Ct, Cicero. As police secured him, a Spanish-speaking officer report hearing Lopez say, in Spanish, “Why are you doing this to me?” The officer asked in Spanish why Lopez ran, and what was in the bag? Lopez told him the bag contained “brujeria”—meaning “witchcraft”. He also stated, in Spanish, “They are the devil and I’m God.”
Lopez was wanted on a Cicero arrest warrant. Berwyn police charged him with one count of battery to an officer, and one count of resisting a peace officer.
An inventory of the bag shows it contained keys, holy cards, Jesus pictures and personal items.
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Some of Selena’s Cicero patrons: two fight over “transvestite” remark, one hits and swears at cop
September 11, 2008, 11:10 PM
An abandoned 911 call brought police to Selena’s bar, 6320 26th St. Police saw a woman with a bleeding cut on her forehead. The victim was a 26-year-old Cicero woman who is a bartender at Selena’s but was there on her night off. She told police the woman at the end of the bar threw a glass at her.
At the end of the bar was a 40-year-old Cicero woman, also an off-duty Selena’s bartender. The two had argued. When the younger woman called the older one a “transvestite”, the older woman threw water in her face and the glass “slipped” out of her hand, striking the victim. No complaints were signed. The victim was advised that, should she wish to pursue the matter, she should come to the Berwyn police station when she is sober.
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11:29 PM
Police returned to Selena’s after learning a man was lying on the sidewalk in front of the bar. He was initially unresponsive, so an ambulance was summoned. During the effort to waken the man, the officer identified himself as a policeman and asked the man for some identification. The man replied, “F--- you!”. The officer asked for ID again. This time, the man stood up, said “F--- you!” and hit the officer in the chest. The officer took the man back to the ground and handcuffed him, as the man took a swing at him. Oscar Gonzalez, 33, of Cicero was charged with battery and resisting arrest.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Pot appears as if by magic during health class
September 11, 2008, 3:58 PM
A dean at Morton West high school called police to take away a bag of marijuana. The bag had appeared during a second-period health class.
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Felony cocaine charges for woman with quick-stop visitors
September 8, 2008, 5:39 PM
Police received information from witnesses that a woman at 1239 Cuyler frequently came out of her basement apartment and approached cars, conducting brief transactions; the activity reportedly occurred at all hours. Officers went to the apartment and asked to speak to the woman. A young man was in the front of the apartment; police saw him reaching under a glass table and into a shoebox. A sergeant ordered him to put his hands in view and not to move. When backup officers arrived, police recovered the shoebox; it contained two glass crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia. The man and woman told police they had just “smoked up some crack.”
Meanwhile, police watched two men approach the south entrance of the apartment. Neither man had ID, and both admitted they came to buy crack.
After being read her rights, the woman told police she was dealing cocaine and would show them her stash. She pointed out a jewelry box containing clear plastic bags, with twelve individually-wrapped chunks of crack cocaine, as well as ten tinfoil packets of powder cocaine.
K-9 officer Epo sniffed the apartment and alerted to a nightstand and the coffee table. He also alerted to the front seat of a red Mercury Grand Marquis; pieces of crack were visible on the seats and floor.
According to police, Rose M. Decosola, 49, of 1239 Cuyler, was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance and felony possession of the same with intent to deliver.
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
Gang selects Berwyn bar for party; disturbances, after-hours drinking, ensue
September 7, 2008, 3:35 PM
An officer looking for graffiti behind Fonzie’s bar, 3243 Harlem, noticed seven vehicles in the lot. Because of three calls* to the same area earlier --all involving active members of a street gang who openly stated they were having a party at Fonzie’s—he called for backup. Two officers entered the bar. Manager Jamie Nieves, 28, of Cicero, said the only people drinking in the bar were employees. Police saw six people at tables with open, very cold, beers before them. Nieves agreed with the officers that it was 3:30 AM, and that he should have stopped serving at 3 AM. Nieves received a ticket for serving alcohol after hours—a ticket he refused to sign.
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The three earlier incidents were as follows:
2:08 AM: police made a street stop of two people who said they had been at a party at Fonzie’s. Name checks revealed them to be active gang members; they were ultimately sent on their way.
2:22 AM
A disturbance call, reporting men yelling and fighting in front of Pierre’s banquet hall—3237 Harlem—brought officers back. Name checks of every man involved in this fight showed they, too, were active members of the same gang. One 20-year-old man even had a gang slogan ("ALMIGHTY A^%%@$#") tattooed across his eyebrows.
2:29 AM
A traffic stop of a vehicle pulling away from Fonzie’s; all occupants were active, admitted members of the above gang.
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Drunk & disorderly youth complaint
September 5, 2008, 10:59 PM
Witnesses complained to police that teenagers were entering and drinking alcohol in an abandoned house in the 1900 block of Harvey, west side. Police learned the building has been foreclosed upon, and called a board-up service.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Whatever happened to plain old No-Doz?
September 5, 2008, 1:28 AM
An officer clocked a black Mercury Mystique speeding 46 MPH in a 25 MPH zone westbound on Cermak; the Mercury crossed lane lines as it approached the Cermak/Wesley intersection; it then turned left onto Riverside Drive, but from the westbound lanes rather than the left-turn lane. The officer saw the Mercury nearly hit three parked vehicles before it stopped. Driver Jacob D. Watts, 23, of Crest Hill, was unable to produce a driver’s license upon request. He appeared intoxicated, but stated he had not been drinking. When asked whether he had taken any medication, Watts reportedly said he had taken a Xanax and had also used heroin. Watts failed multiple field sobriety tests, and was arrested. He was charged with speeding, improper lane use, improper turning, no front plate, no license on his person, no insurance, and DUI/drugs or drug combination.
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