Berwyn Police Blotter
Graffiti / vandalism / criminal damage
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Juveniles suspected in streetlight vandalism
August 16, 2008, 10:55 PM
Police were alerted when neighbors realized something was suspicious about the fact that their streetlights were not working in the 1800 block of Elmwood. Witnesses told police they saw a group of about 10 males under age 17 standing near a streetlight, which suddenly went dark. The youths then ran eastbound on 19th. A total of four streetlights were damaged in the incident.
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Hate speech
August 16, 2008, 2:06 PM
On a garage door in the 1800 block of Euclid, someone wrote “WHITE BITCH”. Graffiti was also found on a garage door in the 1600 block of Wesley.
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Vandalism
August 16, 2008, 11:50 AM
Someone defaced a Ford pickup truck with what appeared to be spray paint; it happened in the 1600 block of Oak Park.
2:44 PM
Rock throwing may have been what caused two second-floor windows to break in the 1900 block of Ridgeland.
8:21 PM
A 62-year-old Burr Ridge man told police he was driving his Cadillac Eldorado near Ogden and Elmwood when someone threw a rock at his windshield and cracked it. The victim then saw a male white juvenile, age 8-10, flee the scene.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
Graffiti roundup
August 14, 2008, 9:45 AM
Red spray painted graffiti was reported on the rear wall and door of a business in the 6500 block of Cermak. In the 2200 block of Gunderson, graffiti made with marker defaced a garage.
10:02 AM
The second ward alderman reported graffiti on an electrical box in the 6200 block of Ogden.
11:10 AM
The owner of a business in the 6200 block of 26th reported graffiti on two of the company’s front windows.
2:50 PM
Gang graffiti expressing affection for a well-known street gang and a wish to do away with members of a less well-known one was marked on a garage door in the 2700 block of Highland.
3:08 PM
A fence facing the alley by McDonald’s, 6717 Cermak, was marred with graffiti.
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
Gang graffiti roundup
August 13, 2008, 9:07 AM
Initials and profanity were written on the wall of a garage in the 6400 block of 26th.
11:17 AM
On the north wall of an apartment building in the 6400 block of 27th, police found vandals had marked initials.
5:22 PM
Gang graffiti and symbols defaced two garages in the 2700 block of Cuyler and one in the 2800 block of Cuyler; the later declared a “No Love Zone” for its rivals.
6:15 PM
A traffic sign was defaced with gang graffiti on the corner of 26th and Grove.
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AC vandalism
August 12, 2008, 2:51 PM
Someone got up onto the roof of a hair salon in the 6600 block of Cermak and damaged the air-conditioner ducts.
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FOOTBALL SUCKS
August 13, 2008, 12:19 AM
A grocery store in the 6600 block of Roosevelt was found with its back wall bearing green and blue graffiti.
2:08 AM
Graffiti was found on the back fence of Burger King, 6701 Roosevelt Rd.
11:10 AM
Someone used red spray paint to write FOOTBALL SUCKS ‘09 on the overhead garage door of the stadium at Morton West high school, 2400 Home; “09 09 09” was painted on a dumpster near the baseball field.
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Front-door graffiti
August 11, 2008, 4:29 PM
Graffiti was found on the front door of a business in either the 6700 or 6500 block of Cermak—the report showed the same four digits, starting with 6, but the rest in reverse order on second reference.
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Friday, August 15, 2008
Eggy badness
August 10, 2008, 9:51 AM
A red Olds Bravada, parked in the 1300 block of Harvey, was found with the rear window broken out and eggs broken all over it.
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Words, gang signs and stones thrown
August 10, 2008, 1:29 AM
A man told police he was in his vehicle, approaching a stop sign at 38th and Gunderson, when he saw several males standing on both sides of Gunderson. The victim said the men yelled at him and made gang signs, then two of them approached and threw large landscape stones at the vehicle. The stone crashed through the rear windshield and right rear passenger window. Once the damage was done, the victim said, some of the offenders fled eastbound in a dark green minivan, and the rest entered a white vehicle, which fled—in reverse—northbound on Gunderson. The victim’s passenger then said that, before the stone-throwing, he exited the vehicle and “exchange words” with one of the offenders. Both the victim and his passenger said they had seen the man before; he was described as a male white in his early 20s, thin, 5’7”, wearing a black baseball cap and black shorts, as well as a mustache.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Flipping out in a Mickey Mouse T-shirt
August 9, 2008, 2:34 AM
A bar bouncer at La Quinta, 6739 Ogden, told police a man in a Mickey Mouse T-shirt came out of the bar and “flipped out”. “Flipping out”, in this instance, consisted of running around the parking lot, screaming in Spanish, then scratching up a white Cadillac Escalade with a key. The bouncer said that when he tried the stop the offender, the man fled in a green GMC Jimmy. As the bouncer spoke with police, he was able to point out the Jimmy at the intersection of Oak Park and Ogden. Police followed the vehicle, stopping it near near MacNeal Hospital, and asked the front-seat passenger to exit. The man—Misael Renteria, 24, of the 3100 block of north Francisco, Chicago, reportedly stated, “I was at the bar, but I didn’t do anything”.
When police brought Renteria back to the scene of the criminal damage, witnesses positively identified him as the offender. The victim, a 29-year-old Oak Lawn woman who did not know the offender, told police she would sign a complaint against him.
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Friday, August 08, 2008
Sharp- and blunt-instrument vandalism
July 30, 2008, 2:11 PM
A Maywood woman told police she parked her car in the 2100 block of Home and returned to find one side scratched and two tires flattened.
5:36 PM
A woman from the 2400 block of Scoville told police she heard a loud crashing noise the previous night at 11 PM. When she entered her living room, she found someone had thrown a liquid-filled green glass bottle through her front window.
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Thursday, August 07, 2008
Van-dalized
July 30, 2008, 7:16 AM
Someone broke a window on a Chevy van parked in the 3800 block of Highland; several items were missing but not detailed in the initial report.
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Handicap-space hog resented correction
July 29, 2008, 2:29 PM
A Berwyn woman told police she had parked her Kia in the parking lot at Justice Foods, 6901 Ogden, when she saw a woman wrongly parked in a handicap space. The Berwyn woman informed the space-misuser that she was going into the store to call police, but as she walked away, she saw the offender scratch the side of the Kia, before fleeing in a grey Ford sedan. The victim recorded the offender’s license plate; it was registered to a woman from Romeoville.
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Graffiti vandals mar sign, garages
July 29, 2008, 1 PM
At Proksa Park, on 29th Place at Wisconsin, someone scribbled graffiti on a park-regulations sign.
8:17 PM
Graffiti was found on a brick garage wall in the 1900 block of Scoville. On an overhead garage door in the same block, a lovelorn goof expressed adoration for someone called “Khalid”.
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