Berwyn Police Blotter
“I don’t have nothing on me, smurf”
June 22, 2008, 1:27 AM
An officer saw a man yelling and screaming while standing in the middle of the street in front of Selena’s bar on 26th at Cuyler. The man appeared to be yelling at the bar’s bouncers; he reportedly shouted, “I will f@#& your fat a$$ up!” Police stopped the man, who was shirtless, as he was walking to his white Chevy Suburban. The man appeared intoxicated and aggressive. The bouncers told police the man tried to pick a fight in the bar, but was escorted outside.
The officer could see a white plastic baggie hanging from the man’s beltline on his right. The officer asked the man to place his hands on the squad car, but during the subsequent patdown, the man kept removing his hands from the car. When asked whether he had any weapons, police said, the man stuttered and hesitated before saying “No, I don’t have nothing on me, smurf.” The officer recovered the baggie, upon which the man said “yeah, you found some s&!t on me, but that ain’t mine.” He then lunged and attempted to run off. In the subsequent struggle, the man was taken to the ground and secured by police. He sustained a cut near one eye during the process, and tried to run off once more while police awaited the ambulance; he was again subdued.
As police spoke to the offender, 32-year-old Silvestre Alvarez of the 2600 block of Kenilworth, the car alarm on Alvarez’s Suburban—parked in a handicap spot in the 2500 block of Cuyler— began to go off. It was towed; Alvarez received tickets for parking in the handicap spot and a noise ticket for the alarm.
The substance in the baggie tested positive for 2 grams of cocaine. The assistant state’s attorney approved a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance; Alvarez was also charged with resisting an officer.
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