Woman flips car at cemetery after St. Patrick’s Day parade
Police responded to Forest Home Cemetery after 7:30 p.m. on March 1 and arrived to find an overturned vehicle that had crashed through the property’s fence. According to the police report, the woman driving the car was awake and breathing with the only visible injury being a cut on her knee. Police reported that she was emotional and had glassy eyes. After Forest Park EMS helped the woman get out of the car, police interviewed her in the ambulance before she was taken to Loyola University Medical Center.
The woman told police that she was drinking beer at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Police found suspected cannabis in the woman’s bag and discovered that she had a revoked driver’s license for a previous DUI. At the police station, the woman’s blood alcohol content was 0.181. She was charged with a DUI, an aggravated DUI, a DUI with a BAC over 0.8, reckless driving, criminal damage to property, operating an uninsured motor vehicle, two counts of violating state vehicle code, open alcohol, possession of cannabis in a motor vehicle, and having a revoked driver’s license.
DUI
On Feb. 28 just after 3 a.m., police pulled over a car in the 7200 block of Jackson for not staying in its lane. Police reported that the driver had slurred speech and smelled of alcohol. She failed multiple Standardized Field Sobriety Tests, according to the police report, so police handcuffed her and took her to the station. There, she refused to comply with commands and provided a BAC breath sample of 0.206. She was charged with a DUI, plus one count for having a DUI over 0.8, improper lane usage, and four counts of resisting an officer.
Just after 3 a.m. on March 1, police observed a car at 7207 Roosevelt Road that was running and not parked, though the driver was asleep inside. When police attempted to remove the keys from the ignition, the driver woke up. Police reported that he smelled of alcohol and had slurred speech. The man attempted to walk away from police multiple times and, at the police station, was irate and belligerent, police reported. He was charged with a DUI.
Strong-arm robbery
Police responded to 205 Harlem Ave. on Feb. 28 after they got a call for a strong-arm robbery. A 7-Eleven employee reported that a man stole $100 from another customer and fled the store, according to the police report. Police detained a suspect who matched the man’s description. While searching him, they found suspected cannabis and cocaine. The man was charged with theft, manufacturing or delivering controlled substances, and possession of cannabis.
Criminal defacement of property
On March 3, police responded to the 7200 block of Franklin St., where they met with the condominium’s board president. The man showed police two swastikas on the elevator’s button panel, which weren’t there when he used the elevator that morning, but appeared about two hours later. He said this has been happening for about a month, but today was the first time he saw it before it was cleaned, according to the police report. Camera footage shows only one of the building’s residents using the elevator during the time period in question. According to police, the resident has a history of being combative with the condo board and other residents. The man told police that the condo board will handle the incident internally.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated Feb. 28 through March 3 and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.
