Berwyn Police Blotter
Screaming people, bloody floor, cops obliged to break down door
June 8, 2008, 3:04 AM
By 3 AM, a neighbor had had enough of a loud party going on in the 6700 block of 26th, and asked the hosts to turn down the music. Not off, just down. Instead, one female partygoer allegedly punched the complainant in the face, and kicked a police officer. Elizabeth Cortez, 19, of Cicero, was charged with two counts of battery.
When police first arrived, they saw blood in the hallway. People inside the apartment refused to let officers inside. When police looked in the window, they heard yelling and screaming, and observed a man with his hand inside his shirt. Officers advised the tenant to open up, or have the door broken down. The male tenant said, “Go ahead, you need the practice.” Police forced open the door and handcuffed the tenant, though not without a fight. Later, at the police station, the combative tenant said he didn’t remember anything because he “partied too much.”
The blood in the hallway turned out to be that of a Cicero man, who told police someone hit him.
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