Berwyn Police Blotter
Jeans-in-sleeve, mom’s car missing, bicycle ripoff, statue stolen
May 9, 2008, 12:15 PM
A security guard at Marshall’s in Cermak Plaza told police he detained a man he saw conceal a pair of men’s Calvin Klein jeans in the sleeve of his red hoodie. The guard said the man walked outside without paying and was stopped. Because of a prior theft conviction, Brian J. Willlis, 19, of the 6100 block of south Wood, Chicago, was charged with felony retail theft.
2:39 PM
A woman in the 2800 block of Harvey reported her blue Ford Tempo had been stolen from her garage.
4:16 PM
A mom told police her son went to Walgreen’s, Ogden and Oak Park, and left his bike lying against the wall. When he came out, it was gone.
6:55 PM
A woman reported seeing a man steal a statue out of her neighbor’s back yard in the 1900 block of Oak Park, east side. The thief was described as a male white in his early 40s, with brown hair, a dark sweatshirt and jeans. She said he entered the yard, stole a foot-tall angel statue, placed it inside a beer box and walked away northbound to 19th, then headed east.
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