Mom Calls Cops on Son Who's Skipping School: Elmhurst Police

The following items were taken from the Elmhurst police blotter throughout the past week. An arrest doesn't constitute a finding of guilt.

Domestic battery

• Police are investigating an incident from Jan. 13 in which two people, both of whom suffer from dementia, were fighting and prompted a 911 call. The fight between the couple had gotten physical, according to police reports, and at one point they were both on the floor. Their daughter came to their home in the 1000 block of S. Euclid and agreed to spend the night.

Truancy investigation

• A mother called the police on her son Jan. 13 when she was concerned he was missing too much school and faking being sick. The incident was called in around 12:45 p.m.

DUI: Drugs

• After a crash, Christopher Medina, 31, was arrested when he was found to be under the influence of drugs while he’d been driving. He was charged for the DUI, an expired registration and disobeying a traffic control signal and was released on bond.

Property damage

• The office manager of Care and Comfort at 136 W. Vallette reported to police that between Jan. 9 and Jan. 12, someone had broken the window of a work station on the second floor of their office building. A plant and planter were also on their side, and a telephone that had been on a table was on the floor and scuffed. The damage to the broken window was around 20-by-20 feet, police said.

Identity theft

• A woman reported Jan. 12 that sometime between her call to the police and the day before, someone had stolen her Chase credit card, purse and wallet from her car while she was at work. She noticed two attempted and approved transactions that had taken place online using her credit card.
• A woman living in the 100 block of Pine Street told police that Dec. 23, 2016, she noticed an unauthorized charge at IKEA on her credit card. She said she hadn’t been at IKEA and doesn’t know how her card number was accessed. She closed the account.

Retail theft

• Shataqua T. Smith, 26, was arrested when she tried to steal several items from the baby aisle of a K-Mart on S. Route 83. She was taken into custody by the store’s loss prevention team before the police arrived, arrested her and released her on bond.
• An unknown man went into the Kohl’s at 303 S. Route 83 around 7:16 p.m. Jan. 12 and stole a tester bottle of Chrome cologne. The man, described by Kohl’s’ loss prevention team as a black male standing around 5-foot-6 and wearing a dark coat with a hood, red hooded sweatshirt, black pants and gym shoes, fled the area on a mountain bike after stealing the cologne. He’s believed to be between 18 and 20 years old.

Theft

• A resident living in the 300 block of N. Elm Avenue told police that a watch and white ring were missing from their home Dec. 15, 2016. They said they suspected their nanny had stolen the items.
• A man living in the 100 block of E. Diversey said a suspect he described as a black male in his 30’s and wearing a black hoodie and blue jeans stole a package from his front porch around 5:30 p.m. Jan. 13.

Missing people

• A husband called the police Jan. 12 concerned that his wife, who had left their Elmhurst home around 3:30 p.m. to walk the Prairie Path with her two dogs, wasn’t returning his calls. He wasn’t able to locate her through the “Find My iPhone” app since her cell wasn’t charged, and he was afraid her blood sugar might be low since she’s diabetic. She was soon located and taken to the hospital for a possible diabetic episode.
• A concerned father called police Jan. 12 when his underage son was still out after curfew just before 9 p.m. that day. The dad was expecting his son home by 6:30 p.m. that day, and he arrived back home while the father was at the police department.

Trespassing

• A resident living in the 800 block of Linden told police she was getting ready to leave the house around 7 p.m. Jan. 12 when her daughter, who was in the car already, saw someone go into the family’s open garage, where the car was parked. When the suspect saw the daughter, they fled. The mom was in their house at the time of the sighting.

Car burglaries

• One resident told police that between 6:20 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. Jan. 12, someone broke into her unlocked Ford and Land Rover parked in the driveway of her 700 block of S. Popular home. Things were taken from the glove compartment and placed on the front seat, but she said nothing appeared to be missing.
• Another woman living in the same area as the above incident reported that between Nov. 29 and Nov. 30 of last year, someone had broken into her unlocked cars that were parked in her driveway and stolen two Garmin GPSes, three phone chargers and three auxiliary chords.
• A mom living in the 800 block of S. York told police that between 5:15 p.m. and 9:55 p.m. Jan. 12, someone had gotten into her unlocked car and taken a children’s backpack, two library books, $10 in cash and a wallet containing a York High School ID, library card and various gift cards.

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