Monday, January 7, 2013
Cops say employees banded together to toss alleged obnoxious patrons out of restaurant.
Three Chicago residents were arrested on assorted assault and battery charges following a New Year’s Day disturbance at an Oak Lawn restaurant, reports said. Oak Lawn police were dispatched to Portillo’s restaurant at 4020 W. 95th St. around 8:30 p.m. Jan. 1, after it was reported that several unauthorized people were behind the counter. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. When the cops arrived, employees directed them toward the parking lot where several diners allegedly involved in the disturbance were sitting in a red mini-van. Officers said that when they approached the van, they could detect a strong odor of alcohol inside. One of the passengers, a woman identified as Jessica Thomas, 22, of Chicago, …
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4020 W 95th St, Oak Lawn, IL
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Police picked up two people wanted on warrants during separate incidents.
Two Evergreen Park fugitives were taken into police custody last month in two separate incidents. A Burbank man was a passenger in a car that was stopped by Oak Lawn police after the driver of the vehicle was stopped allegedly for speeding on the 4900 block of West 95th Street around 1:07 a.m. Dec. 23. Connect with Patch: Evergreen Park / Oak Lawn / Beverly-Mt. Greenwood According to the police report, the driver was in a hurry to get home and told police he was not aware he was going 50mph in a 30mph speed zone. All four people in the car were able to produce valid ID. An ID check revealed that John Judd, 22, of Burbank, had an active warrant for a disorderly conduct charge in Evergreen Park, police said. Judd was taken into custody. A …
Monday, December 31, 2012
Parolee and pal mix it up with off-duty Oak Lawn detective and Cook County Corrections officer, police say.
An altercation with an off-duty Oak Lawn police detective moonlighting as a security guard led to assault and battery charges for a parolee and his pal. Subscribe to the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Oak Lawn police responded to a disturbance at Hooter’s at 9139 S. Cicero Ave. around 11:19 p.m. Dec. 7. A server believing that a party of seven was about to dine and dash alerted the detective that several of the diners went to the bathroom and had not returned, reports said. The Oak Lawn detective positioned himself by the restaurant’s front door and observed one of the diners, later identified as Gregory Blalock, 19, of Chicago, allegedly engage in a verbal altercation with the server. Police said that Blalock …
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9139 S Cicero Ave, Oak Lawn, IL
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Police respond to fight in progress between security staff and large group of visitors at Advocate Christ Medical Center.
Oak Lawn police arrested two people in connection to a fight at Advocate Christ Medical Center when visitors refused to leave a patient’s room, reports said. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Officers responded to a fight in progress between hospital security and a large group of visitors around 6:27 p.m. Nov. 17. Security staff told police that approximately 20 visitors, who all came to visit the same patient, had been told several times to limit the number of guests in the patient’s room. The visitors became disruptive and refused to leave, reports said. Officers went to the patient’s room and told the visitors that some of them had to go to the waiting room. Police said a man identified as Derrick …
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4440 W 95th St, Oak Lawn, IL
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Oak Lawn police reports, Nov. 13.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 A disturbance at an Oak Lawn elementary school brought in police when a parent became upset with school staff. Administrators told police the parent came to drop off his child at Sward Elementary School at 9830 S. Brandt Ave., around 11:15 a.m. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Because the child was late for school, the dad was asked to sign a tardy form. He began yelling at staff that he didn’t have to do anything in life except die, alarming school administrators. Police said the dad yelled out “nobody had better touch his child or try to remove his child from class or he would “sue everybody in the school.” Because of the man’s accent, some staff thought he said that he’d “shoot …
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9830 Brandt Ave, Oak Lawn, IL
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5115 Museum Dr, Oak Lawn, IL
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Chicago woman not happy when other moms criticize her child's behavior inside at children's birthday party emporium, police say.
A Chicago woman was issued two village citations for battery following a scuffle at a children’s birthday party emporium, reports said. Subscribe to the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Oak Lawn police answered a call of a woman arguing with customers at Chuck E. Cheese, 4031 W. 95th St. around 7:08 p.m. Oct. 18. When police rolled up on the scene, those involved in the alleged argument were standing in front of the restaurant. According to the report, two women said that Sharina Junior, 30, pushed them both in the chest after they criticized her child’s behavior inside of Chuck E. Cheese. Police interviewed both women separately, who stated that a scuffle ensued when Junior allegedly began swinging at the women with …
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4031 W 95th St, Oak Lawn, IL
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Melee had apparently started day before when commuter threatened man on train, cops say.
A 53-year-old Oak Lawn man was charged with battery following a skirmish at the Metra Station at 5120 Museum Drive. Oak Lawn police arrested Lawrence R. Drummond in a bank parking lot on the 5100 block of West 95th Street, after determining he had been the aggressor in an altercation with a fellow commuter, reports said. Subscribe to the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Officers showed up at the Metra Station around 4:43 a.m. Oct. 5 where they found a 58-year-old man with scrapes on his hand. Police said that the man positively identified Drummond before he was brought to Advocate Christ Medical Center for medical treatment. The man told police Drummond was walking toward the train platform when Drummond started kicking …
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5100 Museum Dr, Oak Lawn, IL
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Police said woman fought bouncers and spit in a bartender's face when they were asked to leave the bar.
Two women were arrested after they fought bouncers and spit in a bartender’s face in an Oak Lawn tavern, reports said. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Oak Lawn police were called to St. James Place, 5305 W. 95th St., around 10:38 p.m. Oct. 5. Police said the bartender was in the process of pouring a beer when a woman identified as Ashley Dawn Sundquist, 21, mouthed a derogatory word at the bartender and gave her the finger. The bartender said she recognized Sundquist and her group from past occasions when they caused problems and were kicked out of the bar, reports said. Police said the bartender signaled for the bouncers to escort Sundquist and her friends out of the bar. While the bouncers were …
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5305 W 95th St, Oak Lawn, IL
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Chicago Ridge man charged with felony retail theft and battery after he shoved a loss prevention officer at the Oak Lawn Kmart store, police say.
A man who packed a plastic storage bin with 27 DVDs and ran out of a big box store was charged with felony retail theft, reports said. Oak Lawn police responded to Kmart at 4101 W. 95th St. to pick up a man identified as Joe W. Pursley, 28, of Chicago Ridge, after a store loss prevention officer chased him down in the parking lot. Pursley was spotted by security entering the store around 5:40 p.m. Sept. 21 and looking up at the ceiling toward security cameras, police said. After removing a plastic storage bin from a shelf, police said that Pursley proceeded to the electronics department, where a loss prevention officer observed him filling the bin with DVD movies. Pursley walked to the front of the store where he set the bin on the floor, …
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4101 W 95th St, Oak Lawn, IL
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Osama Jihad Zeidan, of Oak Lawn, is charged with felony criminal damage to state-supported property. Police say window was rendered inoperable.
An Oak Lawn man with a history of “fighting with police and a combative demeanor” was charged with felony criminal damage to property after he kicked out the rear passenger window in a village police car, reports said. Subscribe to the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Oak Lawn police responded to Advocate Christ Medical Center at 4440 W. 95th St. around 1:05 a.m. Sept. 18 to assist hospital security officers. When police arrived, a man identified as Osama Jihad Zeidan, 34, was being detained in handcuffs, according to the report. Zeidan came to the hospital seeking medical treatment for an old wound to his foot. Police said while waiting to be seen by a doctor, Zeidan kept leaving and coming back to the waiting room. …
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4440 W 95th St, Oak Lawn, IL
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TheUNowen
12:04 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
To the male employee who steped in front of your manager, you deserve an award and a pay raise! Good job sir there aren't many employees like you around anymore!!! more ›