Crime & Safety

BLOTTER: Man Accuses Police of Being Prejudiced Against Tattoo, Bar Patron Insults Woman's Dancing

Oak Lawn police reports, April 6 through April 14.

SUNDAY APRIL 14

‘You Dance Bad’ 

A 26-year-old man reported that a woman slapped him several times at George’s Lounge at 5407 W. 95th St. around 1:40 a.m. The man told police the woman got angry and slapped him four times in the face after he called her a “bad dancer.” Police said the man was “highly intoxicated” and could not provide a name or description of the woman, other than she was wearing a red shirt. An employee told police that man was being belligerent toward the woman throughout the evening. The man had also been “aggressive” to the employee. He refused medical treatment and police told him to go home.

SATURDAY APRIL 6

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Cops Didn’t Like His Tattoo

A man charged with possession of a controlled substance accused cops of arresting him because they were prejudiced of his tattoo. Police responded to a disturbance call at the Speedway station at 9800 S. Cicreo Ave. around 8:37 a.m. The 22-year-old caller said he wanted to sign a complaint for disorderly conduct after a man identified as Richard Arellano, 22, of Orland Hills, reportedly yelled “Cobra Love” and threw rocks at his car.

Arellano was taken into custody and brought to the Oak Lawn police station. While searching Arellano’s backpack, police said they found 69 pills of generic Xanax in a non-prescription bottle.

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When Arellano was put into jail, he allegedly complained that officers were “prejudiced” against him because of the “F--- da Police” tattoo on his neck. Police said that Arellano also threatened to kill an Oak Lawn police officer while in custody.

He was charged with possession of a controlled substance. Arellano appeared in court at 26th and California the next day, where bail was set at $30,000.

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