Crime & Safety
Arizona Prisoner Sending Threatening Mail to La Grange Home
Dolly found; license plate missing; two brought to hospital from La Grange; and more from the La Grange police blotter.
A woman told LaGrange police Feb. 14 that she is getting threatening mail at her mother’s house in La Grange from someone who is in prison in Arizona. Police said the person sending mail is a 31-year-old man. The Arizona Department of Corrections will take care of the matter, police said.
An 86-year-old woman who was bleeding from her head was brought by ambulance to Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital from her home in La Grange at about 6:03 p.m. Feb 14. At about 4:20 p.m., she fell at Cossitt and Sixth avenues but refused transportation to the hospital, according to police.
A dolly, used to move items, which may have fallen off a southbound truck on LaGrange Road at the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks at about 11:36 a.m. Feb. 15, will be held to be claimed by the owner. Police received calls of items laying on the railroad tracks, and then conflicting reports that a dolly and other items were on the sidewalk near a business in the 0-100 block of Burlington Avenue.
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A La Grange woman told police at about 12:37 p.m. Feb. 14 that her rear license plate was lost or stolen off her car while it was parked that day in the 1100 block of Hillgrove Avenue.
Two men were seen at about 1:51 a.m. Feb. 16 drinking in a parked car in the 1000 block of Eighth Ave. The two men said they would go inside for the night.
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A 65-year-old man who was found at about 4:46 a.m. Feb. 16 in the stairway of the lobby of the village parking garage, 80 S. Sixth Ave., was sent on his way.
An 86-year-old woman who passed out in the village parking garage, 80 S. Sixth Ave., at about 6:03 p.m. Feb. 15, refused transportation by ambulance to a hospital.
The La Grange Fire Department provided mutual aid on a fire call at the British Home, 8700 W. 31st St., in Brookfield at about 7:50 a.m. Feb. 15; and the smell of smoke at the Brookfield Zoo, 3300 Golf Road, at about 8:17 p.m. Feb. 14.
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