Berwyn Police Blotter
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Glass all gone
April 8, 2007, 2:53 AM
An officer spotted a building in the 7100 block of Ogden with all its windows shattered. The owner was called, as was a board-up company. Four 4x12-foot windows and one 3x7-foot glass door were damaged.
Bar music irritates neighboring bar’s patrons
April 8, 2007, 2:32 AM
The owner of Pat & Joe’s bar on Cermak called police about excessive noise coming from the Ixtapa restaurant next door at 6714 Cermak. She said she asked the Ixtapa people to turn it down because it was bothering her customers, but they refused. Police entered Pat and Joe’s; they could easily hear loud music from Ixtapa inside the bar. The 50-year-old owner of Ixtapa, Reyna Segura, was ticketed for violating the noise ordinance.
Bottle battery claimed at bar
April 8, 2007, 2:14 AM
At La Aduana, 6736 Cermak, a guy from Glendale Heights told police someone hit him in the head with a bottle.
Minivan damages police car, traffic sign
April 8, 2007, 1:59 AM
An officer responding to a call about a battery victim at La Aduana bar was headed there in one of Berwyn’s new Dodge Charger squad cars, using lights and sirens, when a 2001 Ford Windstar entered the intersection of East and 24th and struck the squad. The driver, a 21-year-old man, said he had not heard or seen the sirens and lights. But two male witnesses saw the accident and were not certain the minivan had even stopped before entering the intersection. The driver was ticketed for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle; damage to a city vehicle, and damage to a city traffic sign.
Good thing there was no fire
April 8, 2007, 1:41 AM
A 2003 Lexus was found blocking a fire hydrant in the 1200 block of Cuyler; it was towed and impounded.
Disturbance at Inclusive
April 8, 2007, 1:37 AM
Police were called about a fight at Inclusive nightclub, 6317 Roosevelt Road. When they arrived, the manager told them that he had just thrown a woman out of the place for causing a disturbance. He said she became agitated at this and called Berwyn police for revenge.
Wanted man caught when police respond to bar disturbance
April 8, 2007, 12:39 AM
Police arrived at Michael Anthony’s restaurant, 6434 Ogden, in time to see a man and a woman who had just been escorted outside the place by security. The woman was a 31-year-old Berwyn resident. The man, also 31, was William E. Hicks of Robbins. Hicks appeared highly intoxicated and said a stranger inside the bar had punched him in the face. But police spoke with bar owner Tony Vais of Stickney, who said in fact Hicks and his girlfriend had been arguing in the bar. During this dispute, Hicks had grabbed the woman’s neck and choked her, and an unknown man had simply tried to separate them. The woman refused to sign a complaint and was issued a domestic violence packet. But Hicks had two active warrants out of Posen and was arrested.
Lack of tail lights leads to Chicago woman’s arrest
April 7, 2007, 11:50 PM
An officer saw a 1997 Nissan Altima westbound in the 7000 block of Cermak with no tail lights and expired registration. The driver, 30-year-old Maria V. Castillo of Chicago, was charged with driving on a suspended license, expired plates, no tail lights and no insurance.
Just kidding!
April 7, 2007, 9:40 PM
Police were dispatched to the 2200 block of Oak Park Avenue , where they found a 21-year-old woman claiming another woman made telephone threats to her, including threats to damage her vehicle. Police called the other woman, who lives in the 2700 block of Elmwood. She explained the threats by saying she was “just kidding”.
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Woman serving as designated driver hits two cars
April 7, 2007, 9:46 PM
A man in the 2400 block of Oak Park Avenue heard a crash and looked out the window to see a red Jeep had struck his parked car and another one. The Jeep then backed up and fled southbound on Oak Park Avenue. The Jeep’s front bumper, complete with Illinois license plate, was found in the 2600 block of Oak Park. Police found the driver, a 20-year-old Cicero woman; she said she was driving the Jeep because she and two males had been at a party and they had been drinking. When she hit the two cars, she got scared and drove away. She appeared to police to be sober. The two men, a 24-year-old from Hoffman Estates and a 20 -year-old from Palatine, seemed very drunk. Driver Linda Cardenas was charged with failure to reduce speed, failure to give information after striking another vehicle, illegal transportation of alcohol by passengers, no insurance, and no driver’s license on her person.
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Hardboiled, no doubt
April 7, 8:05 PM
A resident of the 6900 block of 29th found two back windows shattered, apparently by eggs.
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Palos Park resident threatens man, scares woman
April 7, 6:48 PM
A woman bartender at Tapp City, 6709 26th Street, said a former patron has been threatening her and another bar employee. The man, Roland Pascua, is 46 and lives in Palos Park. He is deaf and has been banned from Tapp City for his behavior toward this woman. She reported that today Pascua threw a water bottle toward the bar, then placed a threatening note on the car of a male bar employee he mistakenly thinks is dating the woman bartender. The woman is trying to get an order of protection against Pascua.
Chatroom sting snags man seeking child for sex
April 7, 2007, 6:20 PM
A Berwyn detective posing as a 14-year-old girl in an AOL chatroom was approached there on March 31st by a 40-year-old man who engaged in a grossly explicit sexual conversation with the supposed juvenile. On April 7, the man took the bait again, saying he wanted the “girl” to “look naughty” and meet at her house to “play”. He emailed a photo of himself, and arranged to meet the “girl” at 6:30 PM in the 2400 block of Scoville; the man told “her” he would bring beer.
Police put the block under surveillance. Right on time, a man who matched the emailed photo came walking up Scoville, stopping in front of the assignation address. Police could see he was carrying a six-pack of Miller Lite in a see-through plastic bag. The man then went to the back of the address and placed the beer over the fence and into the yard. As he left the alley he was stopped by police; he said “It’s a setup, I knew it was a setup!”.
The man, Charles W. Popp of Chicago, was charged with one count of sexual exploitation of a child. He told police he lives with his elderly parents and has five different screen names which he uses to sit in their basement at the computer and chat with hundreds of 14-year-old girls. He said he has never actually met any young girls in person. He agreed to let police search his computer, which he said might contain images of naked children, ages 7 to 14. He said he was sent these images by a 14-year-old Wisconsin girl. He says he “flirts” with juveniles but knows it’s wrong. He also admitted traveling to Berwyn in order to meet a 14-year-old girl and have sex with her.
April 8, 2:38 AM
The booking officer on duty reported the prisoner, Charles Popp, who was on suicide watch, had broken the lens from his glasses and was trying to use the shards to cut his wrists. He was treated by paramedics, shackled for his own safety and taken to MacNeal Hospital for treatment.
Saturday evening graffiti roundup
April 7, 2007, 5:40 PM
Garage doors got initials in the 2300 and 2400 blocks of Grove; same for two in the 2300 block of Oak Park and two more the 2400 block of Oak Park. Media varied from black marker to silver or gold spray paint.
Overwhelming bass impounds Elmwood Parker’s Altima
April 7, 2007, 2:44 PM
An officer noticed a white Nissan Altima with tinted windows in the 2200 block of Harlem; it was also operating a greatly amplified sound system that could be heard 125 feet away, 50 more than necessary to be officially annoying. The driver, 25-year-old John Edwin Ruiz of Elmwood Park, was ticketed, the car impounded, and Berwyn gets another $500.