Berwyn Police Blotter
Blockbuster theft a team effort
December 7, 2009, 1 PM
While officers were still en route to a theft call at Blockbuster, 7122 Ogden, dispatchers stated the offenders entered a Pontiac and left the scene. Police in the 3800 block of Maple stopped a car matching the description; it contained a female driver and a four-year-old boy. According to the report, driver Maria E. Olmos, 28, of 4201 Clinton, Stickney, spontaneously stated, “It wasn’t me, it was his father” as she pointed at the child. Olmos reportedly told police the Blockbuster clerk accused her and the child’s father of stealing videos, so they left the business. When an officer asked where the woman’s boyfriend went, she gave no answer. A witness positively identified the woman and the child as having been in the store in the company of a man who was stealing videos. The witness said the man removed video packaging as the woman stood lookout and the child ran through the store unattended. When the clerk heard the packaging being removed, he said, he confronted the couple. Olmos was charged with retail theft.
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