Berwyn Police Blotter
Gangbanging and vandalism
March 23, 2008, 6:19 PM
An officer at 26th and Harlem noticed a La Grange Park teen wearing known gang colors while walking northbound on Harlem with a juvenile—a 13-year-old Berwyn girl. Four other males dressed in the same gang colors approached them from the east on 26th, and the males put “threw gang signs” at each other. The officer recognized one of the males --a 16-year-old juvenile from the 2800 block of Ridgeland—as the fellow wanted in an earlier incident of criminal damage to property. When the officer got out of the squad car, however, the 16-year-old fled on foot, as did a 17-year-old Brookfield boy. The officer stopped and spoke with the remaining juveniles, including a 16-year-old Downers Grove boy and a 14-year-old boy from the 5100 block of 29th, Chicago. The boys, and the 13-year-old girl, were handed off to their respective mothers.
8:31 PM
The mother of the 16-year-old Berwynite mentioned above—the one who fled at the sight of police—reported that someone threw a Molotov cocktail at her front window in the 2800 block of Ridgeland, then fled. She believed it was done in retaliation for an earlier criminal-damage incident in the 6400 block of 28th Place. Police found Motolov cocktail remnants, still smoking, in the gangway next to the residence.
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