Crime & Safety

POLICE BLOTTER: Stolen Stop Sign, 'BPSK,' Merton Avenue Break-In

Oak Lawn police reports, Nov. 22 through Dec. 4.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4

Village Victimized

Someone stole a Village of Oak Lawn stop sign on the 5600 block of West 105th Street. The sign-post had been removed from the ground. The thief stole the sign but left the post lying on the ground all before 11:30 a.m.

THURSDAY, NOV. 23

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Gang Graffiti Found in Hallway

Someone scratched “BPSK” in the hallway of an apartment building on the 9300 block of South Harlem. The graffiti was discovered around 3:10 p.m. A 24-year-old woman told police that her boy friend is a former Black P-Stone gang member and suspects that her boyfriend’s Satan’s Disciple friends are responsible for the graffiti. The friends had been at the apartment the evening before wearing their yellow hooded sweatshirt gang colors. They were kicked out and the woman believes they came back later and did the graffiti.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22

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Burglars Loot Home

A 51-year-old man came home only to discover that burglars had ransacked has house on the 10000 block of South Merton sometime before 5 p.m. Police said that burglars had entered the home by breaking the laundry room window. The front door was also found partially kicked in. Burglars grabbed TV’s, laptops, non-functioning antique guns, jewelry, musical instruments, amps, an X-box, and antique money totaling $13,000. Police talked to a neighbor who told them that in recent days he saw two men wearing camouflage jackets walking around the neighborhood.

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