Crime & Safety
Three Thefts Reported at La Grange Businesses, Park
'Rude' Tennesee man comes to door wanting money to go to Italy.
An unidentified amount of money, believed to be less than $300, was stolen out of the cash register of a restaurant in the 0-100 block of south LaGrange Road, La Grange police learned at about 5:43 p.m. May 8.
Four bottles of Xanax each containing 30 pills were reported May 9 as stolen out of medical offices in the 5200 block of Willow Springs Road, according to La Grange police.
A La Grange woman told police May 9 that her daughter’s bicycle was stolen about three weeks previously out of Elm Park. The bicycle was a girl’s light purple Trek mountain bike model.
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Suspicious character
A 19-year-old man from Chattanooga, Tenn., was arrested May 9 after allegedly acting suspiciously while walking down the 800 block of south Catherine at about 5:11 p.m.
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La Grange police received a call of a man wearing a maroon shirt and khaki pants who told a passerby he was looking for was a lost dog. Asked for information about the dog, he declined to say anything about the pet or himself.
A second caller told police a man, abut 5-foot-2, wearing a red shirt and tan pants came to her door with a rude attitude asking for money to go to Italy. He left but police found a man matching his description at 51st Street and Brainard Avenue. The man was charged under a local ordinance but no information was available from police on which one.
Funny activity
A La Grange man reported May 9 he was getting suspicious activity on his email account and suspicious responses from his Craigslist account. Police gave him paperwork for identity theft.
Substation fire
A transformer blew behind the 100 block of south Eighth Ave. and a ComEd substation caught fire, La Grange police learned at about 7:55 p.m. May 10. The Fire Department responded and ComEd was notified.
Kids being kids
La Grange police were called at about 4:39 p.m. May 9 about a group of youths playing street hockey on tennis courts at Spring Avenue School, 1001 S. Spring Ave., and concern the surface could be damaged. Police sent away the kids.
A La Grange mother told police May 9 that another 10-year-old boy hit her 10-year-old on the 200 block of Sawyer Avenue.
Public urination
A La Grange police officer could not find a man, possibly an AT&T worker, whom he was told was urinating in an alley behind the 0-100 block of Sawyer Avenue at about 8:09 a.m. May 9.
Lost and found
A binder belonging to a Chicago woman was found at the Stone Avenue train station of the Burlington Northern Railroad and turned in to La Grange police May 10. Police contacted the owner.
A black Kenneth Cole trifold wallet containing credit cards, a driver’s license, cards and $3 was found at the La Grange Road train station and turned in to La Grange police May 10. The owner, a LaGrange man, was contacted by police.
La Grange police were called May 9 to pick up weapons and ammunition from a resident’s home to destroy it.
A LaGrange man reported May 9 that he lost his driver’s license at Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital.
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