Berwyn Police Blotter
Friday, August 27, 2010
Golf clubs and gangbangers in reported disturbance
August 22, 2010, 12: 16 PM
Dispatched to 15th and Oak Park on reports of a fight involving golfclub-wielding participants, police found some had fled on foot, the others in a tan Ford Focus. Nearby, officers spotted a known gang member—a shirtless 18-year-old man from the 1400 block of Clarence—who said he had been approached by rival gang members at 15th and Oak Park. The shirtless man then became uncooperative and would say no more.
Disorderly conduct • Fight/brawl/riot • Gang activity • (0) Comments • Permalink
“Fresh air” violates parolee’s house arrest
August 22, 2010, 1:39 PM
An officer saw two men on Stanley at Home Avenue; one was talking on a cell phone, the other was sitting on a girl’s purple bike. The talker told the officer he was visiting the bike-sitter while chatting on the phone with his girlfriend. The talker, a 25-year-old from the 2800 block of Ridgeland, admitted to a criminal affiliation—membership in a gang whose name evokes insanity as well as ethnicity—and was sent on his way after police filled out a “gang card” with this information.
The bike-sitter—one Juan P. Lopez, of the 6900 block of Stanley—told police he was just outside “getting fresh air.” A check of Lopez’s name revealed an active arrest warrant out of the Elgin police department. The report stated Lopez admitted to being a member of a street gang named for an ethnicity and a snake; police accordingly filled out a gang card under his name for their records.
Lopez was wearing a black ankle bracelet on his right leg; he reportedly told police he was under house arrest for violating his parole. Berwyn police arrested Lopez and informed the Illinois Dept. of Corrections of the incident; Elgin police fetched Lopez on their warrant.
Gang activity • Miscellaneous • Suspicious people, objects or events • (0) Comments • Permalink
Firebird stolen
August 21, 2010, 4:33 PM
A silver 1997 Firebird, last seen parked on 21st between Elmwood and Ridgeland, was reported stolen.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Loud-car impounds
August 21, 2010, 12:04 PM
A very loud Chevy Tahoe was stopped in the 3800 block of Harlem for violating Berwyn’s noise ordinance. The SUV was impounded; a $500 ticket was issued to driver Luis A. Santoyo, 19, of Chicago.
12:38 PM
A Hyundai audible more than 250 feet away was stopped at the same location as above and impounded; the $500 citation went to driver Valente Sanchez, 28, of Chicago.
1:23 PM
Police impounded a Chevy Impala because it could be heard more than 250 feet away. Romeoville resident Julio Marzano, 20, was cited for noise and fined $500.
Noise violations • Traffic stops / accidents • (1) Comments • Permalink
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Suburban Casanova learns breaking up is hard to do
August 21, 2010, 4:16 PM
A 60-year-old Westchester man told police he’s been having an affair with a 57-year-old woman from the 1800 block of East. The man said he’s been trying to break up with her for a while, but it’s not easy—because the mere idea of a breakup drives her to violence. At her place the previous night, the man told police, his mistress got angry and threw dishes at him; when the man left to drive home, he said, the woman followed him. The man thinks his wife is unaware of his activities; police issued him a domestic violence packet.
Whopping amount of gang graffiti mars alleys
August 21, 2010, 5:20 AM
Police patrolling the west side of the 1500 block of Highland noticed an open garage door; the garage contained a black Ford SUV with gang graffiti sprayed onto it in silver paint. The victim told police he kept a lot of spray paint in his garage. A total of 16 additional properties in the 1500 block of Highland, Harvey and Cuyler were then found defaced with spray-painted gang graffiti.
11:27 AM
Garage doors in the 3100 and 2100 blocks of Harvey was found with gang graffiti, as was another in the 1500 block of Lombard.
Gang activity • Graffiti / vandalism / criminal damage • (0) Comments • Permalink
Glamorous life of club promoter involves calls from “all these hoes”
August 19, 2010, 11:41 PM
A 60-year-old man, who told police he was a “club promoter”, said he went out for cocktails at Wings, East and Cermak, at the invitation of an old flame, a 21-year-old woman. During their rendezvous, the man said, the young woman grew jealous because so many other women kept calling him on his cell phone. Though he explained to her that the calls were work-related, the woman snatched the cell phone and ran with it into the women’s bathroom. The man said he entered the women’s bathroom and grabbed the phone back, then saw its battery had been removed. The man said he asked the woman to give back the battery and give him a ride home. Since she would not, he said, he grabbed for her car keys.
When police interviewed the woman, she agreed with his story, adding that they argued about his “not loving her anymore” as well as about “all these hoes who keep calling you”. When he asked her to drive him home, she said she advised him to walk to his mother’s house and have one of his “b!tches” pick him up and drive him instead. Scratches on the woman’s wrist were caused, she said, by the man’s efforts to grab her keys.
Stolen Tahoe
August 19, 2010, 9 PM
A Chevy Tahoe, whose owner last saw it parked at 18th and Wesley, was reported stolen.
Nasty stuff poured on steps
August 19, 2010, 2:29 PM
A man in the 2400 block of Kenilworth noticed someone had poured a gasoline-like substance on his front steps. Firemen, who determined it was actually lighter fluid, hosed down the steps.
Unusual, mysterious, odd or just weird • (0) Comments • Permalink
Heroin recovered during patdown
August 19, 2010, 10:15 AM
An officer in the 2200 block of Grove saw a man looking all around while standing in front of a residence; the man then entered the driver’s seat of a Buick sedan. Two more men got into the car, which was stopped by the officer as it began to back out. Driver Michael R. Trevino, 26, of that block, had a suspended driver’s license. During a patdown of Trevino, police recovered two small foil packets containing what later tested positive for 1 gram of heroin. Trevino was charged with possession of a controlled substance, and with driving on a suspended license.
Friday, August 20, 2010
“Here’s my roach. I just finished smoking my kush.”
August 8, 2010, 1:32 AM
Police stopped a Chevy after seeing it blow a stop sign at 15th and Highland. After being pulled over, the driver opened all the windows and the sunroof. A strong odor of pot reportedly wafted out of the vehicle. When police approached driver Paul R. Sinon, 31, of Cicero, and remarked upon it, Sinon allegedly said, “Oh. You can smell it, right? Here’s my roach. I just finished smoking my kush.” The passener, Patrick Gorman, 28, of Lyons, reportedly stated he “only had a couple of hits.” A glass jar of 2.7 grams of suspected marijuana was found in the vehicle. Gorman and Sinon were both cited for cannabis possession.
Drugs, alcohol, DUI • Traffic stops / accidents • (0) Comments • Permalink
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Under the influence
August 8, 2010, 2:32 AM
Police stopped a Toyota after it failed to dim its high beams, then nearly struck another vehicle on 26th at Ridgeland. According to the report, driver Gerard F. Normand, 24, of Oak Park, appeared intoxicated and failed several field sobriety tests; his blood-alcohol level was .214. He was arrested and charged with driving under the influence. Passenger Nicholas Alvarado, 28, of the 2100 block of Grove, was allegedly seen stuffing items under his seat; checking under the seat, police found a clear bag of cannabis, for which Alvarado was ticketed. The Toyota was impounded.
Drugs, alcohol, DUI • Traffic stops / accidents • (0) Comments • Permalink
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Flaming footstool flies from flat
August 5, 2010, 9:20 PM
Police and fire personnel were dispatched to the 6900 block of Stanley, where they learned a 51-year-old man in an apartment on that block had fallen asleep while smoking. The man woke to find his ottoman on fire. He grabbed the ottoman, then tossed the flaming furniture from his balcony.
BERWYN SUSPECT STILL AT LARGE AFTER FEDS CHARGE 29 IN DRUG CONSPIRACY
August 13, 2010
Berwyn resident James Kirkendall, 32, of 1422 Gunderson, is wanted by local and federal law enforcement for his alleged involvement in a large drug ring that sold as much as $10,000 per day in heroin on Chicago’s west side. A warrant was executed on the Gunderson residence, which, federal authorities say, was used as a “stash house” and was where heroin was repackaged into $10 “dime bags” for individual sale on the street.
The drug ring, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, was run by a Chicago street gang whose main source of income is heroin sales, and whose tentacles extend into Aurora, Forest Park, Hillside and Cicero. The gang, federal authorities said, was called “New Breeds” and emanated from the Black Gangsters, a Chicago street gang. The suspects had been under surveillance by both local and federal law enforcement agents—including visual and telephone wiretaps, as well as cooperating witnesses and undercover drug buys—since October 2009.
Warrants were executed simultaneously in Berwyn, Forest Park and several other locations. In addition to the Gunderson house, another “stash” address was nearby in Cicero;a garage at 1525 Lombard was allegedly used to hold proceeds from narcotic sales.
The gang used violence to control its underlings; according to one cooperating witness, the drug ring’s accused leader, 31-year-old Dana Bostic of Aurora, used a baseball bat to break a man’s hand when the man did not return the amount of money Bostic felt was due him from heroin sales. Bostic is still at large.
Kirkendall—whose street name, according to a DEA affidavit, is “Jigga”—is also regarded as a fugitive as of this date. If convicted, drug conspirators in this case face a mandatory minimum 10 years in prison, and up to life without parole and a fine of up to $4 million.
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Drugs, alcohol, DUI • Gang activity • Suspicious people, objects or events • (1) Comments • Permalink
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Joggers shot with paintball gun
July 22, 2010, 8:52 PM
Two joggers flagged down an officer at 27th and Kenilworth to report they were shot multiple times by someone in a dark older vehicle occupied by several men. Red/orange paintball marks stained the victims’ clothing. After a car, answering the victims’ description, was seen blowing the stop sign at 27th and Wenonah, it was curbed by police. It was occupied by four men—one with red/orange paint stains on his face and hands. The driver consented to a search of the trunk, in which police found a paintball gun with red/orange paint residue. Police arrested driver David E. Maisonet, 19, of the 1400 block of Ridgeland; Noel Rivera, 19, of Lyons; Daniel Martinez, 19, of the 2700 block of Lombard, and Jose Rivera, 18, of the 2700 block of Grove. The car, a Corolla, was impounded.
After the arrestees were placed in cells, booking officers reported hearing the men laughing and joking about shooting the victims. All four men were charged with two counts of battery, two counts of criminal damage to property, and reckless conduct. In addition, the driver was charged with disregarding a stop sign. Police photographed the victims’ injuries.
Assault, battery • Weapons-related • (0) Comments • Permalink