Mail Stolen From USPS Truck, Paintball Shots, Theft In Oak Park

OAK PARK, IL — Members of the Oak Park Police Department responded to the following recent crime reports:

Burglary from USPS vehicle

The Oak Park Police Department reported someone (or more than one person) got into a locked United States Post Office vehicle between 3:10 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. Wednesday, and took an unknown amount of USPS mail. The car was on the 1100 block of N. Humprey when the burglary took place.

Burglary from vehicle

A Glenview resident told police someone got into their car and took a bag filled with a checkbook, credit cards and money Tuesday in the 1000 block of North Boulevard. Police said the total loss is $350.

Theft from vehicle

An Oak Park resident told police someone broke the front driver's side window of their car, removed the front grill and front passenger side headlight, and damaged the latch to the trunk, totaling a loss of $1,300. This happened between 9 p.m. Wednesday and 8 a.m. Thursday in the 0-50 block of Washington.

Police reported 48-year-old Torrance Hammond, from the 1100 block of South Boulevard, was arrested at 11:23 a.m. Thursday on accusations of retail thefts for several retail thefts that took place at the Target in the 1120 block of Lake Street on previous dates.

Battery (paintball shot)

Police reported a Chicago resident told police he was walking northbound on Oak Park Avenue when he was hit on his back just after 9 p.m. Thursday with a yellow paintball shot from a passing dark Nissan Sedan. The car was last seen headed northbound on Oak Park Avenue.

Police reported a Tinley Park resident and a Mount Prospect resident related an unknown person (or more than one person) shot a gun, hitting two parked cars just before 3 p.m. Thursday in the 900 block of S. Lombard.

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