Berwyn Police Blotter
Assault, battery
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Exes show up, cause trouble
November 9, 2007, 5:09 PM
A woman from the 1600 block of Kenilworth told police her ex-boyfriend showed up, argued with her, choked her neck and damaged the borrowed SUV she was driving. She signed a complaint against the 39-year-old man, a resident of the 4000 block of west Nelson, Chicago.
5:20 PM
A woman in the 1900 block of Harlem told police her ex-boyfriend, a 40-year-old Broadview man, came to her place to talk. During the talk, he grabbed both her arms, shook her, and said “Wait ‘til you see what I’m going to do to your car!” The woman then heard a loud noise, and found a piece of cement on the broken windshield of her Dodge Neon. Police photographed the damage to the car and the injuries to the woman’s arm; the offender was not found.
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Let sleeping cokeheads lie
November 9, 2007, 5:13 PM
A 17-year-old woman from the 2100 block of Highland came to the police station to report that on November 7 at 1 AM, she found a rolled-up dollar bill in her live-in boyfriend’s pants pocket. She said she unrolled it and found white powder, so she woke him up and confronted him in the belief it was cocaine. The 17-year-old man said it was nothing, and “I’m going back to sleep.” The woman said she insisted she wanted no drugs in their house or near their baby, and pushed him toward the door. The man refused, and reportedly stated, “If you want to stand up like a man, I’ll treat you like a man,” and proceeded to punch her face and head. The victim’s visible injuries included a cut, bruised lip; a lump on the head; arm bruises, and a bite-lacerated thumb. Police went to the man’s workplace—a restaurant in the 6300 block of Ogden—and arrested him for domestic battery.
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Spoiled little brother
November 9, 2007, 3:46 PM
Police were dispatched to a fight in front of a house in the 1500 block of East, where they spoke with a woman who said her 18-year-old son and 30-year-old son-in-law were fighting. The fight apparently started when the teen asked his sister to drive him somewhere. They argued, and her husband joined in, kicking and damaging a wooden door in the process, then initiating a physical fight. The sister said her husband was upset because her younger brother “always gets what he wants”. Neither man was cooperative with police. The older man was charged with domestic battery and resisting an officer, and the younger brother with resisting an officer.
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Hair-yanking is charge-worthy
November 9, 2007, 12:14 PM
A disturbance in the 1400 block of Grove led police to a weeping woman with bruised arms. The Cicero woman said she came to visit her boyfriend, but saw another woman’s purse on the floor and confronted him. She said he told her their relationship was over, then grabbed her arms, tried to throw her down the stairs, kicked her, punched her and pulled a chunk of hair out of her head. Police signed a complaint on her behalf against the 35-year-old man.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Excessive gallantry blamed for head injuries
November 8, 2007, 12:32 PM
A Chicago man walked into the Berwyn police station with a scratched, bruised face and bruises on the top of his head. He said the previous evening, November 7, he was leaving his girlfriend’s place in the 2700 block of Wesley , when the basement tenant accosted him. The tenant was his girlfriend’s sister’s boyfriend. The tenant reportedly told him: “[girlfriend’s name here] is like sister to me! If you hurt her, I will beat you up and kill you!” and emphasized the threat by punching the Chicago man in the face.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Woman’s injured face gets boyfriend arrested
November 5, 2007, 3:34 PM
A woman from the 1600 block of Cuyler walked into the police station to report her boyfriend punched her in the face, leaving her visibly injured. She fled for her own safety to her mom’s place, then came to police to sign a complaint. The man was charged with domestic battery.
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Bolingbrook man threatens Berwyn cops
November 3, 2007, 12:19 AM
An officer saw four men arguing at Cermak and Euclid; when he told them to leave, one man replied, “F@% You!” Two of the four men took off before backup officers arrived. Of the remaining two, the younger man—17-year-old Julio Jurado of Bolingbrook—was extremely uncooperative and threatening toward police, swearing at them. The older man was 40-year-old Estanislado Jurado, also of Bolingbrook, same address. Both men smelled strongly of alcohol. When an officer tried to frisk the younger man, he cursed and turned aggressively on the officer, which caused the cop to perform what the report called a “head stun” maneuver. During his subsequent arrest for assaulting a police officer, Julio Jurado continued to curse and threaten police. Julio Jurado was charged with assault; Estanislado Jurado was cited for disorderly conduct.
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Beaten and dragged at gas station
November 2, 2007, 10:01 AM
The victim of a battery in the 1300 block of Harlem told police she and her boyfriend—a 24-year-old Forest Park man—argued in the parking lot of the Citgo gas station over a jacket she was wearing. The woman said the offender grabbed her by the head, but she ran inside the Citgo store. The man followed her, she reported, then grabbed her again, punched her, dragged her from the store by her hair—resulting in the loss of multiple braids—and kicked her in the head before fleeing in a Chevy Caprice. The woman signed a complaint of domestic battery against the offender.
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Saturday, November 03, 2007
Trash talk, battery beef
November 1, 2007, 8:38 PM
A 19-year-old man at 38th and Wesley told officers he had an argument on the street with 20-year-old Branden Lafferty of the 3700 block of Clarence. The victim said Lafferty slugged him in the face several times. Police photographed the victim’s injuries. Lafferty was arrested and charged with one count of battery. Lafferty told police the incident occurred when he asked the victim and a male companion why they “talk trash” about him and his brother.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Drunken, yelling man familiar to police
October 29, 2007, 8:46 PM
A 47-year-old woman from the 1400 block of Grove reported her ex-boyfriend—a 30-year-old Chicago man—showed up drunk, banged on the windows and yelled “let me in”. She said he also threatened to kill her and her neighbors if any of them called police. The man, well known to Berwyn police, fled at their approach.
9:25 PM
The woman reported the ex returned and punched out some of the windows at her home in an effort to get inside, fleeing once more as the woman called police. The victim signed complaints against him for criminal damage to property and domestic assault.
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Man charged with domestic battery
October 29, 2007, 4:47 PM
A woman in the 6800 block of 26th told police her boyfriend struck her in the face; the 41-year-old boyfriend was charged with one count of domestic battery.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Loud-music neighbor accused of knife threat
October 26, 2007, 4:35 PM
A man in the 2100 block of Oak Park told police he went to the door of a neighbor in his apartment building to ask the 36-year-old man to turn down his loud music. He stated the man slammed the door in his face and said it was “his property” and he would do what he liked. The victim said he then tried to reason with the neighbor, who suddenly reopened the door while brandishing a large kitchen knife. He said the neighbor pointed the knife at him and stated: “If you don’t leave, I will make you leave!” The accused neighbor was charged with one count of aggravated assault.
Assault, battery • Disorderly conduct • Weapons-related • (0) Comments • (2) Trackbacks • Permalink
Friday, October 26, 2007
Boys meet girl, boys fall for girl, boy threatens boy with baseball bat
October 23, 2007, 3:49
Police were sent to 25th and Euclid after calls about someone chasing someone else with a baseball bat. They found a 17-year-old boy and his older sister, who told officers they were walking to the sister’s car, when a male in a black hoody and dark pants yelled the brother’s name and came running at them, swinging a baseball bat. The sister screamed and the offender fled on foot. Even as the victims were talking to police, the offender reappeared, prompting the victims to point and say, “That’s him!”. Police caught an 18-year-old man from the 2800 block of south Kenneth, Chicago. The bat-wielding offender said he would not have struck anyone, but merely intended to “scare” the other teen. Officers learned that both males harbored a romantic interest in a certain girl. The Chicago man was charged with misdemeanor aggravated assault, as well as disorderly conduct.
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Couple’s yelling brings police, gets man a domestic battery charge
October 23, 2007, 10:52 AM
A disturbance in the 2100 block of Oak Park brought police to the lobby of a building where a man and a woman were yelling at each other. The woman told officers the man was her boyfriend, he was not on her apartment lease, and she wants him out. The man said he intended to leave but wanted to get his possessions. When questioned about the initial disturbance, the woman said she was preparing to leave for work when the argument began. She said the man announced he would leave, but was taking their 6-week-old infant along with him. The woman then picked up the infant and said nuh-uh. The woman said the boyfriend slapped her face and grabbed her arm; when she set the baby in the crib, he threw her down and choked her. The woman had visible injuries; the man did not, despite his claims of “self-defense”. When officers attempted to handcuff the man, he yelled and pulled away. Once additional cops arrived, he was successfully restrained. The 36-year-old man was charged with resisting an officer as well as one count of domestic battery.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Child gets education in how not to behave
October 21, 2007, 9:40 PM
In the Cermak Plaza parking lot, police found a 25-year-old Chicago woman who said her 29-year-old ex-boyfriend rammed her Ford Focus with his Jeep Cherokee, then ran over her foot before he drove away. The woman was limping and in pain. She told police they met in the parking to lot to conduct a child custody exchange of their six-year-old. Complaints of domestic battery and failure to stop to avoid an accident were signed against the man.
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