Berwyn Police Blotter
Suspicious people, objects or events
Thursday, May 22, 2008
No lfront plate, open alcohol, unlicensed driver
May 16, 2008, 11:24 PM
Police responded to calls about a suspicious white Cadillac in the 2100 block of Home. The 1995 Cadillac Deville had no front plate; it was stopped with the engine running and the lights on. Police asked driver Hector G. Villa, 17, of the 3400 block of west Cortland, Chicago, to turn off the car, and questioned what he was doing there. Villa stated he had friends who wished to drink alcoholic beverages in his car. The officer noted two open bottles of liquor in the back seat, along with several beers. When asked for his license, Villa told police he has no license because he can’t get one. When asked for insurance, he said he has had the car for about a month but has not yet insured it. The car was impounded because of the open alcohol. Villa was charged with illegal transportation of alcohol, driving without license or insurance, and no front plate.
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Powerful drug found after stop of suspicious van
May 16, 2008, 8:30 PM
Callers reported a suspicious white van in the 6700 block of Ogden, with two women and a man inside. When the responding officer activated the lights on his marked squad car, the van went in reverse, then stopped. When he asked driver Irma Villalobos, 41, of Burbank, to show her license and registration, she stared in a confused manner. When asked a second time, the driver gazed to her right, then back at the officer. Villalobos had a suspended license and appeared intoxicated. The van was impounded and she was taken into custody. In the lockup, a search of her person by a female officer recovered a brown vial inside Villalobos’s bra. When opened, the vial emitted a strong odor police recognized as that of liquid phencyclidine or “PCP”; the contents later tested positive for the substance.* Villalobos was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance, as well as DUI, driving on a suspended license and driving without insurance.
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http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/pcp.html
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
DUI arrest for West Chicago man
May 16, 2008, 1:20 AM
An officer at 15th and Harlem noticed a green Chevy Cavalier because it was parked on a sidewalk. The two occupants were asleep in the front seats. The vehicle bore Illinois dealer plate 4360 B. The officer opened the driver’s door, saw the key was still in the ignition, smelled a strong alcoholic odor, and woke driver Juan Alcantara, 42, of West Chicago. When asked to show his driver’s license, Alcantara instead showed an Illinois state ID. The officer asked again; Alcantara was unable to locate the license and just handed the officer his wallet. The officer pointed out the license to Alcantara and requested that he remove it. A similar routine applied to the insurance card. Alcantara told the officer he and the woman had been at Lalo’s restaurant. Asked why he parked on the sidewalk, Alcantara told police officer the woman --a 29-year-old resident of Milwaukee—felt sick, so they stopped and fell aleep. The woman woke and appeared highly intoxicated. When asked whether she knew where she was, she initially stated “Chicago.” When told that was incorrect, she guessed “Lisle” and then “Milwaukee”. An ambulance was summoned for her. Alcantara had a blood alcohol level of 0.136, in excess of the legal limit of .08. He was charged with DUI, no insurance and driving on the sidewalk.
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Cable company workers refused resident access to alley, Berwyn man reports
May 14, 2008, 3:46 PM
A man called police to report he was harassed by three Comcast workers. The man, a resident of the 3800 block of Home, said when he tried to enter his alley, he saw Comcast trucks blocking the way. Initially, the man said, there were no lights on the truck, so he honked his horn. At that point, he said, the amber lights on the truck nearest him went on, but the truck did not move. The resident reported he got out of his vehicle to ask one worker when the truck would move. The worker, who was talking on a phone, stated he was working there, and reportedly advised the man to “back back the f@#%ing way you came.” The resident asked to see the worker’s identification. He said the worker told him, “I ain’t showing you s@#^.” When the resident walked to the front of the truck to get its identification number, he said, a second man, wearing wire-rimmed glasses, exited the truck. At this point, the resident said, he left to avoid further confrontation. He said he telephoned Comcast but was told to make a police report. Police located the three workers, ages 32, 29 and 29, and asked them what happened. They admitted a man had attempted to drive into the alley and could not get through, but denied any altercation. The complainant reported the involved Comcast truck’s ID number was #14243.
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
HOME INVASION
May 13, 2008, 10:05 PM
Callers reported suspicious persons at a home in the 2700 block of Kenilworth. Police met with a female victim who told them she heard someone knock at the front door. When the woman looked out the window, she saw a stranger on her stairs—a man holding a bottle of antifreeze. The woman said “No” to indicate she did not wish to open the door to him. Soon afterward came a second knock. This time, when the victim looked out, she saw a second man, so she called police. She saw the first man flee northbound on foot, and saw the second man walk westbound through her gangway. Witnesses reported seeing a vehicle occupied by three men leaving the 2700 block of Clinton/Kenilworth alley at that time.
10:40 PM
Police were sent back to the same address. This time, the caller reported a forced entry into the house. Police spoke with another woman victim, who said a man kicked in the side door and got into the house, so she and her adult daughter ran out the front door. The mother injured her ankle while fleeing, so an ambulance was summoned. The daughter told police that, as she fled through the front door, she saw a second man run inter her gangway. She said as she ran away, she heard a male voice shout, “Kill the bitch!”
A witness who heard yelling in front of the house said he looked out and saw four men, one running through the gangway. The side door was damaged from being forced, police were able to find shoe and fingerprints. The daughter said the offender who broke into the house was a male black in his 20s, 6’ tall, average build, wearing jeans and a blue-striped polo shirt. She told police she could identify him, and wished to assist in creating a composite image. Neighboring witnesses provided descriptions of the other men seen in front of the house.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Wanted for desertion
May 13, 2008, 12:13 AM
An officer noticed an older white Cadillac Fleetwood because it was not running, just sitting, in the “thruway”—not a designated parking spot—at White Castle, 7155 Ogden. The driver appeared to be slumped down. When approached, the driver told the officer the Caddy ran out of gas and he was just waiting for a friend—a 22-year-old Lyons man—to come back with some fuel for it. Police checked the name of driver Andre D. Cannon, 22, of New Orleans, Louisiana; there was an active “military desertion” warrant in his name from the United States Navy. Cannon was taken into custody and police alerted the Navy investigator to his presence.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Anonymous calls lead police to body at 34th and Grove
May 11, 2008, 2:21 PM
Anonymous calls from a Depot District pay phone reported two men possibly dumping a body in the alley near 34th and Grove. A woman caller said she saw two male whites remove an unconscious man from a blue sedan, possibly a Chevy Cavalier, then flee northbound. Police found the man in a sitting position against a building in the 3400 block of Grove, unresponsive. Paramedics tried to resuscitate the man, but he was pronounced dead at 2:49 AM. The victim was later identified as 43-year-old Vincent R. Lee of Mount Prospect.
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Teacher calls police, says man asked students to “come here”
May 9, 2008, 10:04 AM
A call about a suspicious person brought police to the southwest corner of 16th and Gunderson, where stood Kevin John Brown, 42, of Romeoville. Asked why he was in town, Brown told police he had been visiting a friend in the 1800 block of Gunderson and came to the corner to use the phone. He said he first tried a phone at 16th and Ridgeland but it was not working. He said he walked west on 16th after that; once he was in front of Lincoln Middle School, he said, he saw students but did not address them. But a concerned teacher told police he said “hey, come here,” to students. Brown received a citation for disorderly conduct, and was advised to leave and not return.
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Suspects in Berwyn, Oak Park armed robberies arrested on felony charges
May 9, 2008, 3:27 AM
A 25-year old Indiana man and a 22-year-old Berwyn woman told police they were robbed while they sat in the man’s parked black BMW in the 2200 block of Oak Park. They said someone shattered the front passenger window with a rock, then a man dressed in all black and wearing a black mask opened the driver’s door and put a gun in the man’s face, saying, “Where’s her purse, give me her purse!” Two other armed male offenders yelled at the victims, who gave up the requested items; the woman’s purse contained, among other things, a pink cell phone. The robbers fled the scene. Soon after the robbery, police stopped a green Ford SUV in the 6600 block of Cermak, after the vehicle failed to signal a left turn. In addition, the officer who made the stop noticed that as he approached in his squad car, the two passengers ducked as if hiding from him.
The officer spoke to the driver, 21-year-old Charles E. Terrell of Maywood. The officer noticed three men in the SUV were all in dark clothing. Terrell had shrubbery stuck in the crotch of his pants. When asked about it, Terrell reportedly said, “this is nothing” and tried to brush it away, but had to pull because the shrubbery was stuck in his zipper. All three men were asked to get out of the SUV, and Terrell gave permission for police to search it.
A search recovered a black ski mask in the center console. The dashboard appeared loose and partly separated around the stereo. When officers pulled on the loose portion, it came away to reveal several handguns and a box of .45 caliber Magtech ammunition stuffed inside. All three men were arrested.
In the left turn lane, where the SUV had been before getting pulled over, several credit cards lay on the street. Two of them were in the name of the male victim robbed in the BMW; that victim later positively identified one of the weapons as the one used to rob him. It was a Czech semiautomatic blue steel 9MM handgun, loaded. The other guns police recovered were a Llama 9MM semiautomatic handgun, and a Smith & Wesson SW40F. All three guns were loaded. Other items recovered from the SUV included credit and ID cards from several people; a black cell phone; a pink cell phone; a black hoodie; a black baseball cap with “NY” on it; and a black baseball cap with an orange “Houston Astros” star. The woman robbed in the BMW positively identified the pink phone as the one taken from her at gunpoint.
After being read his rights, Terrell told police he was driving his mother’s vehicle in the area of Roosevelt and Harlem and looking for girls. He said the three guns were his, telling officers he bought them from what he termed “some white dude” he met while working at Schaumburg temporary employment agency. He told them he stores the guns in the dashboard of his mother’s vehicle, knew nothing of a robbery and did not know how the victim’s pink cell phone got there.
After being read his rights, passenger Joshua Felton, 19, of Maywood, denied participating in any robbery. He said he acquired the pink phone for $5 from a man in the street by a gas station thirty minutes earlier.
The second passenger, Christian Arrington, 23, of the 2100 block of west 53rd, Chicago, made a statement after he was read his rights, in which he told officers the driver, Terrell, is his cousin, and referred to Felton as “Jamal.” He denied knowledge of a robbery, guns or cell phone acquisition. A check of Arrington’s name revealed an active no-bond full-extradition warrant for his arrest out of South Taylor County, Texas. Arrington told police he was arrested in Texas for delivery of narcotics in a school zone.
Arrington and Felton both had prior felony convictions. After reviewing the case, the assistant state’s attorney approved the following felony charges for Terrell, Felton and Arrington: two counts each of armed robbery, two counts robbery, two counts theft and three counts unlawful use of a weapon.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Chicago Heights man found asleep in car
May 4, 2008, 12:44 AM
Police found a 42-year-old Chicago Heights man asleep in a car at 26th and Cuyler. The car was turned off. The man said he was upset after an argument with his girlfriend, and dealt with it by driving around until he grew sleepy. He added that he “may have” taken too many antidepressants, also; he was taken to the hospital.
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Man says he was jumped; brother says he made the whole thing up
May 4, 2008, 12:25 AM
Two officers responded to a disturbance call in the 1800 block of Elmwood. There, a 23-year-old block resident claimed to have been “jumped” in front of his apartment building. He bore no sign of injury, and refused medical treatment. Police then spoke with the man’s 22-year-old brother, who explained big brother was drunk and lying about the supposed incident.
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Suspicious car contained open alcohol, minors, and not one resident of that block
May 3, 2008, 11:17 PM
Police saw a suspicious vehicle in the 2100 block of Grove/Kenilworth alley, which appeared to have no license plates. Approaching the maroon Mercury Marquis, the officer saw the plates were improperly displayed in the front and rear windshields. All four occupants held open bottles of MGD beer. The driver, 21-year-old Julius M. Rivera of the 3900 block of west 106th St, Chicago, was charged with illegal transportation of open alcohol and improper display of registration. Jose Carillo, 19, of Cicero; Orlando C. Morales, 20, of the 7100 block of Windsor, and Justin D. Cumpian, 19, of the 11000 block of south Artesian, Chicago, each received a ticket for possession of alcohol by a minor. Because the alcohol charges, the car was impounded.
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Fleeing man charged with pot possession
May 3, 2008, 4:10 PM
An officer saw two males standing at the opening of the Grove/Kenilworth alley at 21st, and asked the pair if everything was ok. One man fled on foot, heading east on 21st. He was quickly found in a gangway in the 1900 block of Grove by another officer. A check of his name revealed an active North Riverside arrest warrant. The other man, an 18-year-old from the 1900 block of Oak Park, was cleared and released. Once in booking, the captured man was found to be wearing two pairs of pants at the same time. From the interior pair of pants, police recovered 15 clear baggies of marijuana, totaling 10.7 grams. Gerard A. Pierce, 17, of the 1300 block of Home, was charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession. Because of the warrant, North Riverside was notified of his presence in the lockup .
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Round up your sales crew until you get a permit
May 3, 2008, 12:03 PM
Callers complained of a woman in a pink top selling magazines door to door in the 3400 block of Wenonah. Police located the woman in the 7000 block of 35th. Told she needed a permit for such sales, the woman said she did not know that. The 19-year-old woman identified herself to police as Latoya Patterson of Redding California. She said her purse, containing her ID, had been stolen, so her identity was established via fingerprints. Police spoke to her supervisor, who said he has two women working in Berwyn. He was told about the permit requirement, and to come pick up both women. Patterson was cited for soliciting without a permit.
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Camry crime cabal
May 3, 2008, 4:50 AM
Police looking into the theft of a brown Toyota Camry from the area of 16th and Cuyler found a different, blue, Camry at the same intersection; it was running and unoccupied. The blue Camry was found to have been stolen out of Chicago. Evidence found in the blue Camry may help police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation locate the offenders in the thefts of several Camrys in Berwyn. An armed robbery in Elmhurst and other crimes are associated with the stolen
Camrys. All were stolen in Berwyn and later recovered in the northeast quadrant of the city.
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