Berwyn Police Blotter
Sex offender gets felony count for registry failure
September 11, 2007, 3:37 AM
A caller reported seeing three suspicious men in a maroon van at 21st and Oak Park. The caller said the men pulled up beside his vehicle and asked for cigarettes. He got scared because he thought they threw gang signs at him, so he drove away and called police. Officers checking the area located a maroon Astro van containing three men. They told police they did stop and ask a man for a cigarette, but he just drove away. All three men maintained they did not throw gang signs and said none of them belonged to a gang. All three had records clean of gang cautions and so were sent on their way. Then the computer turned up a Cook County warrant for one of the three men—a 37-year-old from the 1900 block of Gunderson; he had failed to register as a sex offender. He was taken into custody for the warrant. The man told police he used to live in the 3200 block of Lombard, then went to Cook County jail two months ago; while, there, his wife and family moved to the Gunderson address. He got out of jail just two weeks ago, he said, and tried to register with police but was told the Gunderson location was too close to a park. He was charge with one felony count of failure to register as a sex offender, as well as not having his driver’s license on his person. failure to notify the secretary of state of an address change, and having no current Berwyn city sticker on his vehicle.
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