Unprovoked Attack On Restaurant Patrons In Lake Forest: Blotter

LAKE FOREST, IL — The following information comes from Lake Forest and Lake Bluff police and Lake County court records as a record of those arrested by police. Readers are reminded that an arrest is not an indication of guilt, and criminal charges, which represent merely accusations by the state, are often dropped or reduced. Updated information may be available from the Lake County Circuit Clerk of Courts. All persons named are innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

ARRESTS

Alan Palmer, 61, of the 1000 block of Coventry Drive, Lake Forest, was arrested around 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 29 and charged with two counts of misdemeanor battery after officers were dispatched to the Sunset Corners Shopping Center, 825 S. Waukegan Road, for a report of an argument at a restaurant there. Officers found an uncooperative man outside bleeding from the head and apparently intoxicated. Fire department personnel handled the man's wounds while police spoke to witnesses. Officers determined Palmer had attacked several restaurant patrons without provocation. Police reported he walked in and started physically assaulting a man and woman as they waited to be seated.

Edita Zalnieruknaite, 52, of the 500 block of Kirkwood Avenue, Winthrop Harbor, was arrested around 8 p.m. on Feb. 1 and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol following an encounter with police in the 600 block of South Green Bay Road. Officers reported getting a call about a Chrysler minivan blocking a driveway. Police were told the driver, later identified as Zalnieruknaite, appeared to be asleep at the wheel. When officers spoke to her, she refused to cooperate with field sobriety tests and refused to be handcuffed, at one point sitting down in the road. Officers issued her a citation for operating an uninsured motor vehicle. Prosecutors later filed paperwork for her license to be suspended after he refusal to cooperate with sobriety testing. Court records indicate Zalnieruknaite is also awaiting trial in Lake County for a charge of DUI–alcohol stemming from a July 2019 arrest in Gurnee.

Esther Delgado, 41, of the N14800 block of 17th Avenue North in Necedah, Wisconsin, was arrested around 1 p.m. Feb. 2 following a traffic stop on Route 41. Officers found there was an active warrant for her arrest issued by McHenry County and took her into custody. She was also issued a traffic citation for an unspecified offense.

A 60-year-old Park City man was arrested around 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 3 and charged with driving with a revoked license following a traffic stop at Old Elm and Buena roads. Officers reported the man said his license had been revoked due to a 2007 DUI arrest.

Madeline Lopez, 25, of the 1000 block of Becker Street in Hammond, Indiana, was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, driving under the influence of alcohol with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 or greater and driving with a revoked license following an encounter with police around 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 4. Officers investigating a call of a car driving "all over" Waukegan Road found Lopez behind the wheel of a car parked in a driveway in the 1200 block of Waukegan Road. Officers reported Lopez smelled like alcohol and thought she was in Calumet City. She later produced a breath sample indicating her blood alcohol concentration was nearly twice the legal limit.

Candice K. Shandor, 33, of the 5000 block of North California Avenue, Chicago, and Dakotah R. Beeter, 26, of the 2900 block of West Lincoln Road, McHenry, were arrested on Feb. 12 in an Airbnb rental unit in Oakbrook Terrace in connection with a Lake Forest police investigation into the theft of cars and packages from three locations in the city last month. Both were charged with two counts of burglary and one count of possession of a stolen vehicle.

Earlier: Cops Catch Package Theft Crew Member In Stolen Car; Drunken Driver Arrested In Early Morning Hours After Christmas Provided Plate Of Cookies: Lake Forest Police Blotter, Jan. 1 to Jan. 22

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