Berwyn Police Blotter
Dancers, uncooperative driver, features of one loud-car stop
September 20, 2007, 1:01 AM
Audible down the block from the Lalo’s parking lot, Maple and 32nd, was a tan Lexus. The driver, 38-year-old Sonia Davila of Lyons, was cited for noise.
1:59 PM
Police stopped a grey Chevy two-door whose stereo could be heard over 150 feet away in teh 7100 and 7200 blocks of Pershing. The car was impounded; the ticket went to Simon T. Girzynski, 21, of Lyons.
2:46 PM
A police sergeant found a large crowd gathered around an extremely loud blue Chevy minivan parked in the rear of Circuit City, 2200 Home. He told them to disperse. The driver, a 41-year-old man from the 1500 block of Clarence, told the sergeant he was waiting there to pick up his stepdaughter from high school, because she was involved in a fight the previous day. The man said it was one of the teen’s friends who had turned the van’s stereo up high, and they all began to dance on the bumper and hang on the van while waiting.
The sergeant informed the man that he was getting a $500 noise ticket; the man refused to sign it and said he would “call the chief and sue” the officer. The sergeant told the driver to removed his things from the van, because it was being towed. The man stated he and his things were staying put. The man was given a choice: cooperate, or be arrested for obstruction. The man finally did as he was told and the van was impounded.
5:34 PM
WEDGE officers were in the 2300 block of Cuyler in response to a gang loitering complaint. While there, they stopped a very loud red Honda two-door traveling westbound on 24th. It was impounded, and driver Leonardo Ramirez, 21, of Cicero was cited for noise as well as driving unlicensed and uninsured.
8:16 PM
At 13th and Oak Park, police stopped a red Nissan Sentra so loud it could be heard over 200 feet away. Driver Luis Galindo, 23, of the 700 block of south Grove, Oak Park, was issued a noise violation ticket.
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