Information in Police Blotter is obtained from the Niles, Morton Grove and Park Ridge police departments. Individuals listed in Police Blotter charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
NILES
FEBRUARY 21
An employee of a restaurant in the 5900 block of Touhy Avenue discovered more than $13,000 in unauthorized withdrawals had been made from the business’ payroll account between Oct. 1 and Feb. 21, police said.
FEBRUARY 24
Cassandra Fornear, 33, of Hainesville, was charged with retail theft after she allegedly stole merchandise from a store in the 8500 block of Golf Road and then attempted to return the items for cash, police said.
Ibrahim Matezic, 52, of Niles, was charged with domestic battery.
A 90-year-old Chicago woman was ticketed after she allegedly stole a container of strawberries from a store in the 5700 block of Touhy Avenue.
A man was reportedly seen stealing two TVs from a store in the 8500 block of Golf Road.
Graffiti, written with marker, was discovered on playground equipment at Washington Park, 8900 N. Washington Road, police said.
FEBRUARY 25
Justin Jamie, 22, of Groveport, Ohio, was charged with reckless driving and speeding. According to police, Jamie’s car was traveling at 97 mph on westbound Dempster Street, west of Milwaukee Avenue. His car also struck the side of another car as it swerved out of its path, police said.
Marvin Ontiveros, 25, of Skokie, was charged with driving under the influence following a traffic stop in the 8800 block of Milwaukee Avenue, police said.
Jewelry was reported stolen from a home in the 8200 block of Neva Avenue, police said. The house was forcibly entered, according to police.
On a woman allegedly attempted to cash a fraudulent check totaling $672.53 at a business in the 7500 block of Milwaukee Avenue, police said.
FEBRUARY 26
Jakub Grajdura, 22, of the 7000 block of West Kedzie Street, was charged with driving under the influence after police said his car struck a fence and rolled over in the 6700 block of Howard Street. A female passenger inside the car was taken to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, but Grajdura was not transported, police said.
FEBRUARY 27
A 25-year-old Waukegan woman was ticketed for public intoxication after police were called to a bar on the 8500 block of Golf Road for a report of a battery. The woman reportedly told police she had been attacked in the restroom. Police said she gave the responding officer different names and birth dates before her identification could be confirmed. Police also ticketed a 23-year-old man from Vernon Hills for public intoxication in connection with an unrelated incident that occurred at the same bar the same day. Reports of both incidents were sent to the Niles Liquor Commission, police said.
A business on the 7200 block of Dempster Street was reported burglarized between Feb. 24 and Feb. 27 while it was undergoing remodeling, police said. A worker told police that approximately 22 spools of copper wire were missing from the building.
MORTON GROVE
FEBRUARY 23
Danielle Dedeoglou, 23, of Des Plaines, was issued citations for possession of cannabis and drug paraphernalia following a traffic stop at Dempster Street and Oak Park Avenue.
Robert E. Burton, 25, of Winnetka, was charged with reckless driving following an incident at Dempster Street and Callie Avenue. Police said Burton was driving down the median at a high rate of speed and cutting off traffic.
A man reported that someone entered his van in the 6300 block of Oakton and stole tools.
FEBRUARY 24
Angela L. Thomas, 51, of Chicago, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident that occurred two days before at Lincoln Avenue and Menard Avenue. Police said Thomas left the scene, failed to give aid or information and failed to file a police report.
FEBRUARY 25
Margaret T. Kelly, 44, of Lincolnwood, was charged with driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident at Central Avenue and Dempster Street. Police said Kelly was involved in a vehicle accident and walked away without providing aid or information. Kelly was located and positively identified by witnesses, police said. According to police, Kelly refused all sobriety tests.
A man reported that someone broke the windows of his vehicle while it was parked in the 7200 block of Dempster Street.
FEBRUARY 27
A person reported that suspets spray painted on a wall in the 8600 block of Menard Avenue.
FEBRUARY 28
Farhan Haroon, 30, of Skokie, was charged with driving under the influence following an incident in the 5800 block of Golf Road.
MARCH 1
Juan D. Zerafin, 21, of the 1900 block of Des Plaines, was charged with possession of cannabis and drug paraphernalia following an incident ON the 6800 block of Dempster. Police said Zerfin was stopped for traffic violation and an officer detected the odor of cannabis from the driver and vehicle.
PARK RIDGE
FEBRUARY 23
An employee of an office on the 900 block of Busse Highway told police that a man made an appointment and then left the building. When the employee entered her parked car later in the day, she reported finding the man in the back seat, police said. The man allegedly told the woman that he thought he was in someone else’s car and he then left the area.
FEBRUARY 24
Police said a 76-year-old woman was approached by a man outside her home on the 800 block of Oakton Street on the afternoon of while another man entered the residence. Nothing appeared to have been taken, police said.
Various beauty merchandise was reported stolen from Mariano’s, 1900 S. Cumberland Ave., police said.
An electric scooter was stolen between Jan. 15 and Feb. 24 from a common area of a residential building at 2300 Windsor Mall, police said.
An employee of a business on the 1400 block of Renaissance Drive was reportedly threatened by an unknown caller.
FEBRUARY 27,
Around 2:30 a.m. someone repeatedly rang the doorbell of a home on the 800 block of South Seminary Avenue, moved patio furniture, overturned a large flower pot and damaged a porcelain statue, police said.
A glass door on the south side of the Centennial Activity Center, 100 S. Western Ave., was discovered damaged by four projectiles, police said.
FEBRUARY 28
A resident of the 700 block of North Delphia Avenue told police she heard what sounded like someone tapping on her bedroom window during the early morning hours of and later discovered a patio chair had been placed below the window.
A man was seen stealing bottles of alcohol from Mariano’s, 1900 S. Cumberland Ave., police said.
Rocks were reportedly thrown at the driver’s side of a car parked between Feb. 23 28 on the first block of Third Street.
MARCH 1
Eric Mitchell, 46, of Niles, was charged with identity theft on March 1. According to police, an investigation determined that Mitchell had used credit cards that were inside a purse reported stolen Nov. 30 from an office at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, 1775 W. Dempster St.
MARCH 2
Pawel Jachymiak, 39, of Niles, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, damage to city property, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, improper lane use and a seat belt violation. According to police, Jachymiak was driving east on the 1600 block of Oakton Street around 12:40 a.m. when he crashed into an unoccupied Park Ridge squad car, parked with its lights flashing outside a home where officers were responding to a call. Jachymiak was taken to a hospital for treatment and later charged, police said. The squad car had to be taken out of service due to the damage it sustained, according to police.
A man, claiming to have purchased a neighboring house, approached a resident on the 400 block of North Redfield Court and asked her to come outside so he could discuss a fence issue with her, police said. When the woman returned, she reportedly found a second person inside her house and, after threatening to call police, both men left. Police said nothing was reported stolen from the home.