Berwyn Police Blotter
Gang activity
Friday, August 27, 2010
Golf clubs and gangbangers in reported disturbance
August 22, 2010, 12: 16 PM
Dispatched to 15th and Oak Park on reports of a fight involving golfclub-wielding participants, police found some had fled on foot, the others in a tan Ford Focus. Nearby, officers spotted a known gang member—a shirtless 18-year-old man from the 1400 block of Clarence—who said he had been approached by rival gang members at 15th and Oak Park. The shirtless man then became uncooperative and would say no more.
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“Fresh air” violates parolee’s house arrest
August 22, 2010, 1:39 PM
An officer saw two men on Stanley at Home Avenue; one was talking on a cell phone, the other was sitting on a girl’s purple bike. The talker told the officer he was visiting the bike-sitter while chatting on the phone with his girlfriend. The talker, a 25-year-old from the 2800 block of Ridgeland, admitted to a criminal affiliation—membership in a gang whose name evokes insanity as well as ethnicity—and was sent on his way after police filled out a “gang card” with this information.
The bike-sitter—one Juan P. Lopez, of the 6900 block of Stanley—told police he was just outside “getting fresh air.” A check of Lopez’s name revealed an active arrest warrant out of the Elgin police department. The report stated Lopez admitted to being a member of a street gang named for an ethnicity and a snake; police accordingly filled out a gang card under his name for their records.
Lopez was wearing a black ankle bracelet on his right leg; he reportedly told police he was under house arrest for violating his parole. Berwyn police arrested Lopez and informed the Illinois Dept. of Corrections of the incident; Elgin police fetched Lopez on their warrant.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Whopping amount of gang graffiti mars alleys
August 21, 2010, 5:20 AM
Police patrolling the west side of the 1500 block of Highland noticed an open garage door; the garage contained a black Ford SUV with gang graffiti sprayed onto it in silver paint. The victim told police he kept a lot of spray paint in his garage. A total of 16 additional properties in the 1500 block of Highland, Harvey and Cuyler were then found defaced with spray-painted gang graffiti.
11:27 AM
Garage doors in the 3100 and 2100 blocks of Harvey was found with gang graffiti, as was another in the 1500 block of Lombard.
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
BERWYN SUSPECT STILL AT LARGE AFTER FEDS CHARGE 29 IN DRUG CONSPIRACY
August 13, 2010
Berwyn resident James Kirkendall, 32, of 1422 Gunderson, is wanted by local and federal law enforcement for his alleged involvement in a large drug ring that sold as much as $10,000 per day in heroin on Chicago’s west side. A warrant was executed on the Gunderson residence, which, federal authorities say, was used as a “stash house” and was where heroin was repackaged into $10 “dime bags” for individual sale on the street.
The drug ring, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, was run by a Chicago street gang whose main source of income is heroin sales, and whose tentacles extend into Aurora, Forest Park, Hillside and Cicero. The gang, federal authorities said, was called “New Breeds” and emanated from the Black Gangsters, a Chicago street gang. The suspects had been under surveillance by both local and federal law enforcement agents—including visual and telephone wiretaps, as well as cooperating witnesses and undercover drug buys—since October 2009.
Warrants were executed simultaneously in Berwyn, Forest Park and several other locations. In addition to the Gunderson house, another “stash” address was nearby in Cicero;a garage at 1525 Lombard was allegedly used to hold proceeds from narcotic sales.
The gang used violence to control its underlings; according to one cooperating witness, the drug ring’s accused leader, 31-year-old Dana Bostic of Aurora, used a baseball bat to break a man’s hand when the man did not return the amount of money Bostic felt was due him from heroin sales. Bostic is still at large.
Kirkendall—whose street name, according to a DEA affidavit, is “Jigga”—is also regarded as a fugitive as of this date. If convicted, drug conspirators in this case face a mandatory minimum 10 years in prison, and up to life without parole and a fine of up to $4 million.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Parolee arrested after search warrant reveals loaded gun, controlled substances
July 20, 2010, 7:57 AM
Berwyn tactical officers, U.S. Marshals and agents of the Illinois corrections department found things that shouldn’t have been there during a check on the home of parolee Michael A. Forys, 29, of 3817 Highland. Police located a red container in Forys’s bedroom. digital scale, drug packaging material and several clear bags containing what later tested positive as cocaine. In another drawer was a Colt .38 police model revolver, fully loaded with six live rounds. Police recovered the gun.
During the incident, police saw David Forys, 27, of the same address, run upstairs to his bedroom. Officers followed quickly enough to see David reach into his closet, where two clear bags of cocaine could be seen. David Forys reportedly said of the cocaine, “It’s mine”. A patdown of David revealed two empty plastic bags with the corners cut off, inside his pocket. Police asked David if those bags used to hold cocaine. David reportedly said, “The bags are gone, I don’t know where they went,” then denied flushing the contents down the toilet.
In a post-Miranda statement, Michael Forys reportedly told officers he used to be a member of the Satan Disciples street gang; admitted ownership of the cocaine in his room, and to buying and reselling drugs in Berwyn. He allegedly stated he needed the loaded gun to protect a family member from an abusive domestic partner.
Michael Forys was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance, as well as possession with intent to deliver. David Forys was also charged with possession and possession with intent to deliver.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Gang graffiti on garage, electrical box
July 18, 2010
Gang graffiti was found on a garage in the 2600 block of Oak Park Avenue and on an electrical box in the 6600 block of 19th.
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Gang graffiti on garage, vandals deface handicapped woman’s car, and landscape-lighting damaged
July 17, 2010
Large—fifteen by eight feet in size—gang graffiti was left on a garage door in the 2600 block of Oak Park Avenue, as well as on another house in the 2700 block.
10:34 AM
An unknown offender in the 3600 block of Wesley threw a large amount of red paint across the hood and windshield of a woman’s 2008m Chevy Impala. When police arrived, the paint had already begun to dry in the heart. The defaced vehicle was parked in the victim’s clearly-marked, city-assigned handicapped space.
5:52 PM
In the 6400 block of Sinclair, someone damaged four landscape floodlights.
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Gang graffiti hotline lights up
July 16, 2010, 10:43 AM
A call to police on the graffiti hotline reported gang drawings and letters on the overhead garage door at an address in the 1800 block of Gunderson. More of the same was found on a garage door in the 2900 block of Oak Park.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Aurora man’s Audi graffiti-defaced
June 11, 2010, 4:55 AM
In the 19000 block of Home, police noticed a silver Audi with the driver’s side defaced in red spray paint; gang symbols and letters were drawn on the car. Three nearby garages were similarly marred using the same color paint.
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Thursday, June 03, 2010
‘Hood watch
May 28, 2010, 6:57 PM
A Neighborhood Watch sign at the southwest corner of 16th and Home was vandalized with gang graffiti.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Gang graffiti
May 13, 2010, 6:31 PM
Gang graffiti was found on an overhead garage door in the 3400 block of Kenilworth.
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Sunday, May 09, 2010
Felony DUI charges: multi-vehicle crash featured gang signs, flailing and inappropriate peeing
April 24, 2010, 11:04 PM
After a multi-vehicle crash, with injuries, at Oak Park and Cermak; police took the driver of the offending vehicle into custody. Driver Jose L. Aguilar, 24, of Cicero, was described in the report as verbally and physically aggressive, allegedly shouting, “I’m going to get paid!”, “I’m videotaping this and I’m going to get paid” and “I’m going to kill all you bitches”, followed by the exhibition of certain gang signs. With difficulty, officers got him inside the squad car, where he reportedly kicked the windows; an officer who reached in to stop him got kicked in the abdomen and legs for his trouble. As other officers assisted in pulling him back out of the squad, they reported smelling alcohol on is breath. At that point, according to the report, Aguilar attempted to headbutt an officer and was placed on the ground. One officer’s finger was injured in the process.
The report stated that, while restrained to a bed at MacNeal Hospital, Aguilar twice took out his genitals and screamed while urinating on the walls of the emergency room. Aguilar’s blood alcohol level was measured at .228; the legal limit for driving under the influence is .08. Aguilar was charged with driving on a revoked license, DUI over .08, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident; driving too fast for conditions, resisting arrest, battery and driving uninsured. He was also charged withe felony aggravated DUI and felony aggravated driving on a revoked license.
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Gang graffiti roundup
April 20, 2010, 7:33 AM
In the 6800 block of 21st, gang graffiti was found on two sides of an apartment building. Another building in the same block got the same treatment. In the 1900 block of Grove, someone drew a slogan of a well-known criminal gang on an overhead garage door.
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Chaos and Potato
April 18, 2010, 1:17 AM
A Ford pickup in the 2500 block of Clinton, and a Chevy van in the 6500 block of 28th Place, were both found with brick-shattered windows.
9:19 AM
In the 1200 block of East, a black Ford SUV was found with a broken window. The victim told police he has been feuding with a street gang with a silly name, though not as silly as the nicknames of its members. The feud specifically involves two characters known on the street as “Chaos” and “Potato” who live in the 1400 block of Grove and are known to hang out on their own block and at 21st and Grove.
4:16 PM
Gang graffiti was found on four garages, a light pole and a fence in the 2100 block of Scoville/Gunderson alley. “Hello” and a smiley face were drawn on a garge in the 1800 block of Wenonah.
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Vandalism roundup
April 17, 2010, 1:57 PM
In the 2100 block of Euclid, a Honda sedan suffered a broken rear window.
7:44 PM
Someone threw a bottle at a car in the 3400 block of Grove, denting the door and breaking the side mirror.
10:58 PM
A concerned citizen told police he saw multiple male youths placing gang graffiti on a towing sign in the 6700 block of 16th.
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