Crime & Safety
Bomb Threat as Wooing Scheme, Bender Goes from Bad to Worse
A look at weird crimes in the northern Chicago suburbs. An arrest is not an indication of guilt.
It’s kind of like 'Say Anything' crossed with 'Leaving Las Vegas'
A Niles woman spotted a Des Plaines man sleeping in a lawn chair in the parking lot in front of her deck. The man told police he had consumed about 13 beers the night before and wanted to “sleep it off” at his girlfriend’s home nearby. But when he got there, she wasn’t home and he was too drunk to get home. So he “took a nap in the parking lot.”
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A security agent told police he saw an Elk Grove Village teenager stole a bottle of Hennessy Black Cognac from an Arlington Heights grocery store. The teen then returned to the store a few days later and put a bottle of vodka under his sweatshirt and again left without paying, police said. He caught the second time.
Police advise locals to maybe not be so much on the look out on this one
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Wilmette police are searching for a man who has reportedly ran through Gillson Park naked on several occasions.
A Winnetka woman discovered that someone stole her white and lime green badminton set with rackets in a tan basket from her yard. The amount of loss is reported at $60.
A Libertyville man was arrested after telling police he had planted bombs at Vernon Hills' Summer Celebration. He later admitted there were no explosives, police said. Instead, he told police, he was simply angry that a woman he met at the event didn't like him.
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