The following items were taken from police and court reports and news releases. An arrest does not constitute a finding of guilt.
Burbank
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT: A pedestrian told police a motorist threatened him Sept. 8 in the 6500 block of 79th Street after they exchanged words, and later threatened to kill him while pointing a handgun at him, on the 7900 block of Natchez Avenue.
COMMERCIAL BURGLARY: The front glass door and window were discovered broken Sept. 26 at Smokes & Vapes, 4846 79th St., and the interior ransacked, police said.
Chicago Ridge
RETAIL THEFT: Yender Contreras, 23, Chicago, is scheduled to appear in Cook County court at Bridgeview Oct. 25, charged with felony retail theft, police said. Contreras took merchandise selling for $4,343 from LensCrafters at Chicago Ridge Mall, police said.
Crete
HIT AND RUN: Police say northbound Illinois Route 394 was briefly closed Friday evening after the driver of a vehicle rear-ended a pickup truck, causing a live lamb and a live chicken to be ejected, before swerving off the highway east through shrubbery, past Starbucks and into the side of the Taco Bell restaurant, police said. The offending driver fled, but the pickup truck driver, lamb and chicken are doing fine, police said.
Lansing
ILLEGAL GUN: Nathan Sedo, 20, 3400 block of Schultz Drive, Lansing, was arrested Sept. 21 and accused of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after officers recovered a loaded home-made handgun from him while investigating a fight in a motel parking lot in the 2400 block of 173rd Street, police said.
Monee
DOMESTIC: Ky I. Pryor, 37, 25800 block of Merion Drive, Monee, was arrested Oct. 8 in that block and subsequently charged with aggravated domestic battery, according to police and Will County court records online.
New Lenox
CARJACKING: A Joliet man is charged with one count of vehicular hijacking, four counts of aggravated battery and three counts of domestic battery in connection with an Oct. 9 traveling argument, police said. Eric S. Woods Jr., 38, turned himself in Friday and is scheduled to appear in Will County court Oct. 25, police said.
Oak Lawn
PROPERTY DAMAGE: Hector Gutierrez, 31, Chicago, is scheduled to appear in Cook County court at Bridgeview Oct. 24, charged with 41 counts of criminal defacement, police said. Gutierrez spray painted words and letters on vehicles, mostly in the area between Cicero and Laramie avenues and 107th and 111th Streets, in late July, police said. Gutierrez was arrested Oct. 10 after he was identified as the suspect in an investigation involving Alsip, Chicago Ridge, Palos Heights and Worth Police departments, police said.
Orland Park
DUI CRASH: Jocelynne D. James, 35, 9900 block of Treetop Drive, Orland Park, was arrested Sept. 26 and accused of drunken driving, resisting a police officer, illegally transporting liquor, failing to reduce speed to avoid a collision and leaving a crash scene after hitting a parked vehicle at 153rd Street and Treetop Drive, police said.
THEFT: Kiera L. Bell, 33, Arnold D. Misher, 30, and Deliah B. Cox Williams, 38, all of Chicago, were arrested Sept. 27 and subsequently charged with felony retail theft after taking 99 candles collectively selling for $2,250 from Bath & Body Works, 638 Orland Square Drive, police said.
WRONG SIDE: Andrew J. Hellmich, 31, 4500 block of 102nd Street, Oak Lawn, was arrested Sept. 29 at 88th Avenue and 143rd Street and accused of drunken driving and driving on the wrong side of the road after driving east in a westbound lane in the 8800 block of 143rd Street, police said.
Palos Heights
THEFT: A homeless Markham man accused of taking an elderly, developmentally disabled man’s tricycle was arrested Oct. 10 at a gas station in Chicago Ridge, police said. Adam Miller, 34, took the vehicle Oct. 8 while the 65-year-old man was dining at a fast-food restaurant in the 7100 block of 127th Street, police said. The vehicle was recovered Oct. 10 in Midlothian, police said.
Palos Hills
ILLEGAL GUN: Ahmad M. Ahmad Jr., 24, 9000 block of Luner Avenue, Orland Park, is scheduled to appear Nov. 1 in Cook County court at Bridgeview, charged with unlawful use of a weapon/machine gun in an auto, according to a Cook County spokesperson. Ahmad was arrested Oct. 9 in the 7800 block of 103rd street after officers recovered a loaded .40 caliber Glock handgun equipped to fire automatically with an extended magazine and a mounted laser light, police said.
ILLEGAL GUN: Hamza Zaid, 32, 9900 block of Treetop Drive, Orland Park, was arrested and subsequently charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after officers recovered a loaded 9 mm handgun Oct. 10 in the 7900 block of 111th Street, according to police and a Cook County spokesperson.
Park Forest
DUI CRASH: Jazmine A. Jimerson, 24, 1400 block of 15th Street, Ford Heights, is scheduled to appear in Cook County court at Markham Oct. 24, accused of drunken driving after crashing into a parked car Sept. 22 in the 300 block of Oakwood Street, police said. Jimerson is also charged with failing to reduce speed to avoid a collision and illegally transporting liquor, police said.
PUBLIC INDECENCIES: Deandre R. Lawrence, 30, 200 block of Mohawk Street, Park Forest, was arrested Sept. 25 and accused of public indecency in his front yard, police said. Lawrence was arrested Sept. 29 in the 300 block of Mohawk Street and again accused of public indecency at Somonauk Park, police said.
Sauk Village
CARJACKING: Two males took a SUV at gunpoint Oct. 9 from a restaurant parking lot in the 1700 block of Sauk Trail, according to police reports.
Steger
ILLEGAL GUN: Dantzler L. Newell III, 26, 3500 block of Wallace Avenue, Steger, was arrested Oct. 13 at a gas station in the 3400 block of Union Avenue and subsequently charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, police said. Officers, investigating a sleeping motorist at a gas pump, recovered a loaded 9 mm handgun with an extended capacity magazine from his car and determined Newell’s state gun permit had been revoked, police said.
