Berwyn Police Blotter
LARGE-SCALE PAROLE SWEEP INVOLVES WEDGE, DEA, IDOC
Got jailbirds on your block?
August 14, 2008, 5:19 AM
West Suburban Drug and Gang Enforcement (WEDGE) officers, in company with parole agents from the Illinois Dept. of Corrections and the DEA, split into five teams to conduct a morning parole sweep in locations all over Berwyn. The object was to check up on 26 residences to ensure that the parolees who live there were complying with the terms of their paroles; the compliance check included a mandatory urine test for drugs.
At one location—2228 Oak Park Ave—the parolee would not open the door, though he did answer his phone. Michael T. Luttrell, 38, had an active arrest warrant and police warned him that if he did not open the door, it would be opened by force. Luttrell would not respond, so police entered by force and arrested him.
6:34 AM
When police checked on a 55-year-old male parolee living at 1632 Euclid, they found two bags of marijuana weighing 5.3 grams. The man’s girlfriend, 44-year-old Cynthia K. Berg, spontaneously stated, “That’s mine”, and received a $275 pot possession ticket.
7:28 AM
At 2223 Gunderson, parolee Saul R. Reyes, 30, had a urine test that turned up positive for cocaine. Police found a clear bag containing 35.5 grams of cocaine, as well as a digital scale and $739 in cash. Reyes told the agents he was just holding the cocaine for a friend. He was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance.
9:21 AM
A compliance check of Victor J. Torres, 26, of 1816 Grove, recovered a bag containing 6.3 grams of marijuana, resulting in a $275 possession fine for Torres.
10:46 AM
At 1340 Maple, police entered the residence of parolee Agustin Ortiz, 31, and roommate Manuel Mendez, 31. Ortiz was not present. His bedroom had, in plain view, a gas mask converted into a marijuana-smoking device, as well as a bong, two pipes and several bags of marijuana seeds. Police contacted him by phone and instructed Ortiz to come to the police station to comply with the check. Mendez, a convicted felon, received a $275 pot possession ticket after police found a pot pipe, two digital scales, two .22 caliber rounds of ammunition, and a marijuana plant. That property’s tax bills are sent, not to 1340 Maple, but to an address in the 1700 block of west Huron, Chicago.
Other parolees contacted in the sweep included a man from the 2500 block of Harvey—recently involved in a brawl outside Cherry Lounge*—as well as men from the 3600 block of Euclid, the 3700 and 3800 blocks of Highland; the 2500 block of Scoville, the 2100 and 2200 blocks of Kenilworth; the 1800 and 2700 blocks of Highland; the 1600 and 2600 blocks of Oak Park; the 1600, 1900 and 2900 blocks of Harlem; the 1800 and 2300 blocks of Clarence; the 2500 block of East; the 1600 block of Elmwood; the 1800 blocks of Gunderson, Euclid and Grove; the 1400 block of Harvey; the 1500 block of Lombard, and the 6900 block of Roosevelt.
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