Reported to Police: Bad $800 Check, Unwanted Pizzas, Regular Shooting of Potato Gun

A La Grange police officer found a Starbucks gift card in front of Starbucks, 38 S. LaGrange Road, at about 9:32 p.m. March 24. The officer contacted the company to identify the owner. The company headquarters canceled the card, worth $31, and said they will notify the owner by email and send the owner a new gift card.

A La Grange law office reported at about 1:21 p.m. March 23 that it had received three large pizza deliveries it had not ordered from three different pizzerias—Alex and Aldo’s in La Grange Park, Papa John’s in La Grange and Ledo’s in Countryside.  

A business on north LaGrange Road reported getting a phone call just before closing March 24 from a man asking to hold an item to be picked up that night. The man did not arrive before the employee closed up, but she heard a ringing telephone she did not answer. Worried about a possible robbery attempt, the employee said she would call police if the man calls again.

Graffiti was spotted on handball courts in Gordon Park, Ogden and Locust avenues, and on a nearby water tower, at about 9:21 a.m. March 24, La Grange police said.

Loud music was reported at about 12:24 a.m. March 24 from a third-floor apartment of a building in the 1000 block of south Eighth Avenue. An officer found the occupants playing the “Rock Band" video game and told them to keep it down.

A man seen waving his hand in traffic at 54th Street and Madison Avenue and pointing his fingers at cars as if he had a weapon, at about 6:38 p.m. March 23, was found to be homeless and was taken to a BEDS shelter.

A La Grange home-repair business reported March 23 that an $800 check it had received was returned for insufficient funds.

Police were told March 23 that a boy living in the 1000 block of south Waiola shoots off a potato gun or some other kind of gun every Friday and Saturday between 9:30 and 10:30 p.m., causing a loud noise and disturbing neighbors. 

The La Grange Fire Department provided mutual aid to the Pleasantview Fire Protection District for an exhaust fan on fire and smoke in a building in the 6100 block of River Road in Hodgkins at about 6:24 p.. March 24.

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