Berwyn Police Blotter
Noise complaint leads to trashed flat full of dope smoke, booze, graffiti
May 30, 2008, 10:17 PM
Callers complained of loud music coming from an apartment building at 2107 Grove. Responding officers could hear both the loud music and yelling from a third floor apartment; it was loud enough to be heard in the courtyard below. When police knocked at the front door, a male voice asked who was there. When police said “police”, officers heard the sound of objects falling to the floor, and saw many people running down the rear stairs. Police were able to stop three men; others fled to the back yard of a residence in the 1900 block of Oak Park—a yard notable during the previous week for hosting polo-shirted teens smoking pot*. One of the men stopped by police was an 18-year-old resident of that building. Another was an 18-year-old from the 6400 block of 26th; the third, also 18, was from the 6600 block of Mozart, Chicago.
A check of the now-abandoned apartment revealed a scene of squalor. There was extensive damage, graffiti on several walls, empty and half-empty liquor bottles on with windowsills and floor, and an odor of marijuana smoke.
The apartment in the Grove building was allegedly leased by a man who is currently supposed to be in DeKalb, IL; the detainees were unable to provide police with a contact phone number for this person, nor did they know where he might be found.
Police tried to reach the owner of 2107 Grove—MBW Properties in Niles, IL—but had to leave a message with an answering service.
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