Berwyn Police Blotter
Gang activity
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Graffiti
September 18, 2008, 10:47 AM
Graffiti was found on a door in the 1400 block of Wenonah.
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Carbondale man says beer-toting gangbanger shot at him, can describe but not ID offender
September 17, 2008, 8:50 PM
Dispatchers told police people were screaming in the background during a call reporting “shots fired” at 23rd and Highland. The victim—a 24-year-old Carbondale man—and witnesses at the scene said a man approached the victim and yelled, “What are you?” From this, the victim inferred that a declaration of gang affiliation was requested of him. The victim replied, “Nothing,” to which the offender answered, “Noah, you’re something.” At this, the victim turned and ran away northbound; he said he heard four to five gunshots from behind him. Witnesses said the offender then fled eastbound on 23rd in a white 4-door, possibly Pontiac, car with a black racing stripe down the side and a “spoiler” on the trunk lid. Two other people were in the car, described by witnesses as male Hispanics.
The victim described the man believed to have fired the shots: a male Hispanic, 20-22, 5’8” to 5’9”, medium build, bald, with a goatee, dressed in a white sleeveless T-shirt and blue jeans. The offender, the victim said, approached him holding a beer bottle in his left hand; he kept his right hand inside his pants as if holding a gun. However, the victim insisted he could not identify the shooter or the men in the car, and detectives felt he was very uncooperative. Other witnesses, who were even further away from the offender, told police they could identify him.
Police at the scene recovered a dropped bottle of Bud Light beer and three spent 9MM Luger shell casing.
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Graffiti disses gang touted by kid-shooter
September 16, 2008
Three garages in the 1400 block of Wisconsin were defaced with graffiti. The gang graffiti was intended to express a wish to do away with members of a street gang—the same gang whose slogans were shouted by a man who shot a Berwyn boy three days earlier.*
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GANG SLOGAN-SHOUTING PRECEDED SHOOTING OF JUVENILE IN FRONT OF RESIDENCE
September 13, 2008, 10 PM
Police responding to a report of “shots fired” in the 1600 block of Elmwood found a 12-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to his left calf.
Witnesses said they heard a disturbance in front of a two-flat on the east side of the block, then saw a white Cadillac stopped in the middle of the street. Three men stayed in the car. The two who exited the Caddy man yelled gang slogans demonstrating scorn for a street gang known to be very active in Berwyn, and support for a different street gang, at several people sitting on the front step of the residence. Then one of the men pulled out a gun and fired five or six shots at the porch-sitters before driving away.
Police seek information on the car and five people reportedly seen in it. It was described as a white or pearl-color 1991 Cadillac featuring a gold grille and a gold ragtop.
The men who exited the car, one of whom fired the shots, are described as male whites. The shooter reportedly wore a white hoodie and a black cap.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Moronic prisoner doodles found
September 15, 2008, 7:16 PM
Gang letters and symbols were found scratched onto the door and on the wall near the bed in cell #6 at the Berwyn police lockup, 6401 31st.
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Crime-free housing effort offends unsavory crew
September 12, 2008, 7:08 PM
A man told police he was showing a basement apartment, in the 6400 block of 16th St, to a group of men. During the showing, the victim mentioned that his intention was to rent the flat to a family. At this, the men grew belligerent, calling the victim “bitch”. One man reached into his pants as if for a gun. Following a verbal altercation, the group fled east on 16th.
The victim described two of the men. The first, he said, was a male Hispanic in his early to mid-20s with black braided hair and a dark complexion, wearing tan Timberland boots and a tan Timberland-style jacket. The second was a male white in his early 20s, blond, in a white hoodie and dark blue and black jogging pants.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Banned from Windsor sports bar for gang signs, threats, creepy stalking
September 11, 2008, 8:18 PM
A bartender at Windsor sports bar, 6814 Windsor, told police that, in the past, a man has followed her to her home in a nearby suburb; she reported it at the time to police in that town. Now, she said, the man and his friends were following her. When she asked the three to leave the bar, there was an argument. The bar’s bouncer said the three men were flashing gang signs at him and threatening to damage his car. Police informed the men—a 27-year-old from the 3400 block of Ridgeland, a 22-year-old man and a 25-year-old man, both form the same address in the 3600 block of Scoville—that they were unwelcome in the bar, and would be arrested for criminal trespass if they returned. The men denied the gang signs.
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Gang graffiti
September 9, 2008, 11:25 AM
Gang graffiti and symbols were found on an overhead garage door in the 3600 block of Euclid, west side.
12:56 PM
Graffiti advertising a well-known street gang was found on a garage door in the 6900 block of 26th. The victim said the offenders were two male Hispanics, and said they fled in a red Buick sedan with a license plate the last four digits of which were “3040”.
5:57 PM
Gang graffiti was found on garages in the 1300 block of Clinton and the 1500 block of Home.
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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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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Gang-sign complaint ends in noise-impounded Chevy
September 5, 2008, 2:29 PM
Callers reported a group of males “throwing gang signs” in the 6800 block of Cermak. Police stopped four males in front of an office in that block. They were ages 21, 18, 17, and a 15-year-old juvenile. The 18-year-old’s clothing bore multiple images of crowns, associated with a well-known street gang. The 15-year-old wore the colors of another local gang. All four denied gang involvement, and no witnesses were found willing to get involved.
Police noticed excessively loud music coming from an unoccupied black 2008 Chevy Impala, parked in front of 6831 Cermak. The 21-year-old, Victor H. Valle, said it was his. Police impounded the car for violating Berwyn’s noise ordinance, and issued Valle a $500 ticket.
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Gang threats in spray paint
September 4, 2008, 8:58 AM
Gang graffiti threatening a street gang’s members with death at the hands of a rival gang was found on two garages in the 2700 block of Highland.
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Monday, September 08, 2008
Gang graffiti on a variety of surfaces
September 2, 2008, 7:09 AM
A man reported he parked his car in the 6800 block of Vacin, near Oak Park Ave. and north of Cermak, then came back to find gang graffiti spray-painted on the white Crown Victoria’s hood.
9:24 AM
10:22 AM
Red graffiti marred the appearance of an overhead garage door in the 3300 block of Highland.
12:06 PM
During the night, someone came to the 6200 block of Ogden, smashed a wall-mounted night light, and sprayed graffiti on a wall. The complainant suspects vagrants who sleep in the parking lot there.
6:23 PM
More red graffiti, another garage door, this time in the 3200 block of Lombard.
10:35 PM
Letters legible and otherwise were found painted on the IC underpass at Lombard and Park.
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Friday, September 05, 2008
Gang-related stabbing at 16th and Ridgeland
September 1, 2008, 4:35 PM
Police were summoned to the MacNeal emergency room to speak to a stabbing victim. The victim, a 21-year-old Cicero man, said he was at the gas station at 16th and Ridgeland to fuel an SUV when three men approached him and asked, “What’s up, folks?” The victim said he replied, “I am not about that bull---t”. The men got closer and one man produced a knife. The victim ran, but not fast enough, because he was stabbed—from the back—through the upper left shoulder.
The stabbing victim said the three men came to the gas station in a white Chevy van with a dark stripe. He described the offenders as follows:
The stabber was a male Hispanic in his mid-20s, 5’6” to 5’7”, 140-150 lbs with green eyes, dressed in a white oversized T-shirt and blue jeans, and wearing a fitted white baseball hat with writing on it.
The second man was a male Hispanic in his early 20s, same height and weight, with dark hair, dressed in jeans and a blue striped polo shirt.
The third offender was a male Hispanic dressed in an oversized black T-shirt and jeans; the victim told police he can identify them all.
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Graffiti mars house curb, rear of business
September 1, 2008, 11:15 AM
A caller alerted police to graffiti, done in purple paint, on the front curb of a residence in the 3200 block of Highland; neighborhood youths are suspects.
11:02 AM
Police found silver gang graffiti painted on the rear brick wall and a door of a building in the 6900 block of Cermak, north alley.
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Underage drinker at Italian fest exhibits profanity, bad attitude, to police; weapon recovered
August 31, 2008, 10:40 PM
A tipster told police two males at the Italian fest, Harlem and 24th, appeared to be breaking into a red car. When an officer approached, he saw the pair attempt to hide a half-full 750 ML bottle of Silver Patron Tequila. Both were intoxicated and verbally combative. One was Hector J. Ruiz, 18, of the 6700 block of 16th. The second told police he had no ID, but gave his name as Ariel A. Mijangos, 19, of the 2500 block of Elmwood. Mijangos spontaneously stated, “Berwyn police are a bunch of punk-ass n_____s, messin with a n____ just trying to have a good time and drink.” Because he appeared so intoxicated, paramedics were summoned. Mijango continued to be verbally combative and uncooperative. Although the officer told him multiple times to place his hands on the squad car, Mijango pulled away and appeared to be reaching for a weapon, forcing the officer to place him on the ground. The officer recovered a heavy black metal pipe, 10 inches long, after it fell from Mijango’s waist area. The tequila was also recovered. Ruiz was arrested without incident, reportedly saying, “You won’t have anything like that with me. I’ll be cool.”
During the ride to the police station, Mijango continued in the same vein, making several threats to harm the officer and other gang-related comments; he also spit multiple times inside the squad car.
Ruiz was cited on a local ordinance for possession of alcohol by a minor, then released. Mijango was charged with consumption of alcohol by a minor, possession of alcohol by a minor, unlawful use of a weapon, and resisting a peace officer.
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