The following items were taken from police and court reports and news releases. An arrest does not constitute a finding of guilt.
Burbank
ILLEGAL GUN: Romello C. Church, 28, Gary, Indiana, was taken into custody March 4 at 95th Street and Kedzie Avenue and subsequently charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after a .45 caliber pistol loaded with a hollow-point bullet in the chamber was recovered during a March 4 felony traffic stop, police said.
BATTERY: Jeremy F. Rusin, 32, 8800 block of Harlem Avenue, Burbank, was arrested and accused of battery, retail theft and resisting arrest March 4 at the BP gas station, 5149 79th St., after undisclosed physical violence to an employee and attempting to bite the arresting officer, police said.
Chicago Ridge
BURGLARY: Officers recovered two empty cash drawers March 6 at 99th Street and Oak Park Avenue, leading to the discovery of a break-in at the Pit House Barbecue Restaurant in Hickory Hills, police said.
Crete
CORNFIELD CRASH: A Crete-area man led Beecher police on an approximately 7-mile chase at speeds reaching 80 mph on Illinois Route 394 before Crete police took over for 11 more miles on Route 394, township roads and a village road, police said. James A. Wilder, 53, 26000 block of Winston Lane, ended the March 7 chase by driving into a cornfield north of the intersection of Cottage Grove Avenue and Exchange Street. Wilder was charged with aggravated fleeing, driving on a revoked license and possessing a controlled substance, according to police and Will County court records online.
Evergreen Park
PUBLIC INDECENCY: Nick Benson, 38, 1300 block of Pulaski Road, Oak Lawn, was arrested and accused of public indecency March 5 after a witness at an elementary school in the 3500 block of 103rd Street said he was exposed in the bathroom, police said.
ILLEGAL GUN: Jasmine D. Jackson, 30, Chicago, was arrested and accused of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon Saturday after employees at a department store in the 2500 block of 95th Street gave her misplaced purse to officers, who discovered it contained a loaded 9 mm handgun and determined Jackson lacked a concealed carry license, police said.
AGGRAVATED BATTERY: Raymond T. Sieloff, 25, Chicago, was arrested and accused of aggravated battery to a police officer after biting a law enforcement officer in the leg March 7 while being removed from Tavern in the Green, 3400 block of 95th Street, during a disturbance call, police said.
ILLEGAL GUN: Lacai T. Thornton-Fouche, 27, Laurelton, New York, was arrested and accused of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon during an traffic stop Saturday in the 9500 block of Avers Avenue after officers recovered a loaded 9 mm handgun belonging to Thornton-Fouche, who lacked state-mandated gun credentials, police said.
BATTERY: One of five masked individuals exiting Meijer, 9200 Western Ave., Sunday forcefully pushed an employee who had tried to stop them from leaving with stolen liquor, police said. The group fled in a car without registration plates, police said.
Lansing
PORNOGRAPHY : A Lansing man is scheduled to return to Cook County court March 20, charged with possessing child pornography, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. Emilio Arredondo, 19, 17700 block of Burnham Avenue, was arrested March 7 after a forensic analysis of his cellphone by the department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit revealed hundreds of files containing sexually explicit images and videos of children as young as infants and toddlers, the sheriff’s office said.
ILLEGAL GUN: Regina Overstreet, 23, Lansing, was arrested and accused of unlawful use of a weapon after officers recovered an home-made gun without serial numbers from her purse during a Feb. 26 traffic stop, police said.
OFFICER BATTERY: Amari Cole, 25, Chicago, was arrested and accused of aggravated battery to a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct during a March 1 disturbance investigation at an apartment complex in the 3200 block of 187th Court, police said.
Oak Lawn
RESTAURANT BURGLARY: An empty cash register drawer was stolen during a burglary March 6 at Buona Beef, 6235 95th St., by a team of three people who also attempted to break into a safe, police said. Investigators suspect some kind of tool was used to break the glass entry door at 3:11 a.m., police said.
RESTAURANT BURGLARY: A cash register drawer containing $150 was stolen and a glass entry door smashed during a March 6 break-in at Mashawee Guy, 6840 W 95th St., according to police who investigated at 6:51 a.m. Security video was unavailable to establish the time of the burglary and potentially identify participants, police said.
BAR BURGLARIZED: Police say it took only three minutes early Friday morning for four people to enter Deja Brew Bar & Grill, 5219 95th St., and take two cash registers, $586 cash and two bottles of tequila. Security video shows the five-person team arriving at 4:50 a.m., police said.
BAR BURGLARY: A group of at least three people were in and out of Demma’s Lounge, 5805 95th St., in about five minutes early Friday morning, leaving with a bottle of tequila and causing an estimated $400 damage, police said. Security video indicates one of the group used a hammer to break a window at 5:02 a.m. so they could enter, police said.
DRUGS: Jayshawn T. Rucker, 19, Galesburg, Illinois, was charged with two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, three counts of possession with intent to deliver and armed violence Friday after officers recovered a loaded 9 mm handgun, 201 grams of marijuana in 13 plastic sandwich bags, 36 doses of a black-market tranquilizer, 5 grams of psilocybin mushrooms and three pills containing amphetamines, police said.
Orland Park
FORGERY ALLEGED: Rashawn S. Patterson, 27, Chicago, was charged with forgery Feb. 23 after officers recovered 14 $100 bills with the same serial number from him, police said. Officers and a U.S. Treasury agent were summoned to Trader Joes, 14924 La Grange Road, when Patterson tried to make a purchase with a $100 bill bearing Andrew Jackson’s face, police said.
DUI CRASH: Andrew Enstrom, 44, 15100 block of Valentina Drive, was arrested and accused of drunken driving with a blood-alcohol concentration above the legal limit Feb. 29 after he drove into a traffic warning sign In the 15700 block of Orlan Brook Drive, police said.
University Park
NEW TRIAL: A Country Club Hills man serving a 50-year prison sentence is scheduled to return to Will County court Friday to be retried for the 2011 slaying of a 19-year-old man in University Park. The Illinois Appellate Court ordered a new trial for Tommy D. Crockwell, 54, 17900 block of Vista Drive, Sept. 26, reasoning he had been deprived of a fair trial due to his lawyer’s focus on a legal strategy rather than putting on a defense. Crockwell was arrested in January 2012 and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the death of Johnny Rouse in October 2011. Crockwell was convicted and sentenced in February 2017.