Kids Prank Call 9-1-1; Eggers Make Small Attack; Wallet, Purse Found

A La Grange police officer warned kids who were calling 9-1-1 from a pay phone and then hanging up at the Metra train station at LaGrange Road, 25 W. Burlington Ave., at about 12:56 p.m. March 20. An officer also talked to their mother, who was sitting nearby.

La Grange police went to the LaGrange Road Metra train station, 25 W. Burlington Ave., at about 3:51 p.m. March 19 but were unable to find a male, reported by Western Springs police, with spiked hair, wearing a leather jacket and jeans, walking with hair clippers and smoking something “funny” in foil.

A woman living in the 100 block of south Spring Avenue told La Grange police at about 11:30 p.m. March 20 that someone had egged her car’s license plate. No damage was reported.

A minor water break was reported at 7:15 a.m. and again at 8:36 p.m. March 20 on the parkway at Eighth Avenue and 47th Street. Police said the break was not bad and could be fixed March 21 by the public works department. A work order was faxed to that department.

A wallet belonging to a Romeoville man was turned in March 19 at the La Grange police station. La Grange police unsuccessfully tried to contact the owner, then turned over the matter to Romeoville police, who will let the man know his wallet can be picked up in La Grange.   

A woman who had pulled into a parking lot at Sedgwick Park, 48th Street and 10th Avenue, at about noon March 18 to throw away some trash, found a La Grange woman’s purse in an uncovered garbage can. The purse's owner told La Grange police she had lost the purse the previous night in Hodgkins. Credit cards and cash were missing from the purse, La Grange police said.

Criminal trespass to land was reported at about 7:20 a.m. March 18 in the 0-100 block of south Catherine Avenue but no further information was available on the police shift report or from investigators.

La Grange Fire Department ambulances provided help for a 50-year-old woman who fell inside Trader Joe’s, 25 N. LaGrange Road, at about 10:40 a.m. March 20 and was taken to Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital; someone who passed out at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church, 500 E. 31st St. in La Grange Park, at about 8:51 a.m. March 20, but later gained consciousness; and someone who hurt a knee in the gym at the Park District of La Grange Community Center, 536 East Ave., at about 2:52 p.m. March 19.

The La Grange Fire Department provided mutual aid for a fire call at 1515 Ogden Ave. in La Grange Park at about 7:13 p.m. March 19; an alley garage fire in the 8900 block of Fairview in Brookfield at about 8:43 p.m. March 19; and a fire call at the Village Market North, 432 Sherwood Road., at about 1:20 p.m. March 18.

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