Berwyn Police Blotter
Graffiti / vandalism / criminal damage
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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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 10, 2010
Graffiti roundup
May 30-31 2010
Gang graffiti was left on the sides of thre houses, in the 1300 blocks of Maple and Wenonah, and in the 1400 block of Wenonah.
June 1, 2010
Gang graffiti was drawn on the front of two businesses, a fence and a street sign in the 7000 block of 16th and the 1600 block of Home. Also marred were a garage door in the 2600 block of Ridgeland and a front door in the 6500 block of 21st. To overhead garage doors were defaced in the 6900 block of 29th St.
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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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Slasher
May 28, 2010, 3:33 AM
A 29-year-old woman in the 2100 block of Lombard called police after finding many of her belongings slashed. The woman said she drove away to cool down after an argument with her 30-year-old boyfriend, who was visiting her while on military leave from Fort Knox, KY. While she was gone, she said, the man called her to say he had packed up and was leaving. When she came home, the woman said, she found her $400 black vinyal sofa had been slashed, as had a closetful of shoes, purses and clothing.
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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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Perfectly good paint job on fancy SUV falls victim to teenage jealousy
May 12, 2010, 5:51 PM
In the Janura Park area, police were summoned to the scene of criminal damage to a black Lincoln SUV. The air had been let out of all the tires; a door of the vehicle had “[girl’s name here] SUCKS @^#] carved into it with some sharp instrument. The 18-year-old daughter of the vehicle’s owner told police she suspects the vandalism to be the work of the new friend of a former female friend of hers; the suspect, who lives in the 7100 block of 16th, was described as “extremely jealous”.
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Drunk dad makes threats, does damage
May 12, 2010, 12:41 AM
A 30-year-old man in the 2800 block of Cuyler called police to report his 50-year-old father had returned home intoxicated, argued with him, then threatened to “burn” the son’s vehicle, which was parked in the garage. Dad was unable to enter the locked garage; when police arrived, Dad agreed he was drunk but denied making the threat and agreed to leave for the night.
3:56 AM
Or not. Dad returned and threw a brick at Mom’s car, scratching it. This time, the son signed a complaint.
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Sunday, May 09, 2010
That’s him! I recognize those pants!
Armed robbery
April 29, 2010, 12:01 AM
A man told police he was jumped by two men in the gangway of his apartment building in the 1900 block of Grove. The two assailants ordered him to lie down on the ground and pointed what he believed was a plastic BB gun at his head. The gunman said, “don’t give me any s%^&” and asked, “what’s in the backpack?” The victim said his backpack contained nothing but medication and clothes, but he later told police it also had two Nikon cameras worth $600.
Radio stolen
April 29, 2010, 7:30 AM
Someone broke into a parked Escalade in the 1900 block of Elmwood and destroyed the dashboard while extracting the car radio.
Sound impounds
April 29, 2010, 12:52 PM, 1:08 PM 2:56 PM, 3:17 PM, 3:49 PM; 4:06 PM, 5:34 PM, 6:51 PM; 7:14 PM
The following drivers had vehicles impounded for car stereos audible more than 75 feet away. Arrests occurred along Cermak between Lombard and Oak Park Ave. Violators were fined $500: Juvenal C. Carrillo, 36, of Chicago; Enrique Saucedo, 20, Cicero; Miguel Patlan, 26, Cicero; Erica Sanchez, 24, Cicero; Carlos Rodriguez, 23, Cicero; Fahmi Hilal, 19, Cicero; Pedro Samano, 31, 1200 block of Scoville, Raul Rosale, 40, Cicero; Jorge Rodriguez, 19, Chicago.
Rock through window
April 29, 6:50 PM
A 71-year-old woman heard a crash and found a rock in her kitchen sink in the 1600 block of Clarence. The projectile damaged the window and storm window.
Car reported stolen
April 29, 3:40 PM
A man reported his mother’s white 2005 Toyota Corolla was stolen from a parking spot in the 6300 block of 14th St.
That’s him! I recognize those pants!
April 29, 5:47 PM
A clerk at a convenience store in the 2600 block of Ridgeland told police she was robbed by a male assailant wearing a blue face mask. The man removed a silver revolver from the waistband beneath his sweatshirt and demanded, “give me all the money.” The clerk told police she was nervous and had a hard time opening the register, at which point the man menaced her and demanded, “give me the big money.” She handed over approximately $115 and the assailant demanded that she lift up the cash drawer to reveal any other cash. None was present. The assailant left, with the cash drawer. A witness gave police a description and they picked up a suspect a couple of blocks away. When she viewed a lineup, the witness told cops,” That’s him! I recognize those pants! There’s a big B on them.” Charges are pending.
Car trashed
April 29, 2010, 10:11 PM
Persons unknown broke the windshield of a black Jeep Cherokee parked in the 1800 block of Cuyler. The car was “keyed” along its length and vandalized with black spray paint on headlights and windows.
Home egged
April 29, 2010, 10:53 PM
A household in the 2200 block of Highland—with two high school daughters—was pelted with eggs on front and back windows .
--Jane LeHane
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Someone sticks it to smoker’s Chevy
April 24, 2010, 12:42 PM
A man told police someone vandalized his pickup truck while it was parked in his condo’s parking structure in the 6200 block of 26th St. The unknown offender plastered Post-It notes all over the windows of the Chevy. The notes all read “NO SMOKING”. Adhesive from the Post-Its stuck to the windshield and damaged the wiper blades. The victim told police he suspects the deed was done by a fellow building resident, and has asked to see the condo association’s surveillance tapes to determine whether his hunch is correct.
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Say it with cement
April 22, 2010, 3:06 PM
What woman could resist?
A caller told police a man was walking down East Avenue and using a stick to deface freshly-poured sidewalk squares. The squares, in the 1900 and 2100 blocks, were marked with initials. The value of the damaged squares was $100 apiece. When police caught up to the offender at East and Cermak, he reportedly told them he was “stupid” and that he wrote his girlfriend’s initials in the cement “to be romantic”. The 32-year-old Chicago man was charged with two counts of criminal damage to property.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
White trash forever
April 22, 2010, 10:08 AM
Graffiti done in blue spray paint was found marring the west side of a building in the 6200 block of Cermak.
6:52 PM
Someone wrote one of those “homie RIP” messages in green chalk on property in the 1900 block of Kenilworth. An additional message read, “WHITE TRASH FOREVER”.
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