White Escalade Driver Records Woman Headed to Work

A West Dundee woman told police she was “alarmed and disturbed” as she drove to St. Charles when a white Cadillac Escalade began driving alongside her and the driver appeared to be taking photos or video of her with a cellphone.

The woman told police at 1:39 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, that the incident began to unfold when stopped at a fast-food restaurant in South Elgin as she was driving to her workplace in St. Charles.

As she left, she told police she noticed the Escalade following her southbound on Route 31. At one point, she said she noticed the vehicle to her right, possibly at a stoplight, and the driver appeared to be using a cellphone to take photos or video of her.

By the time she got into St. Charles, the Escalade was in the left lane alongside her, blocking her ability to get into the left-turn lane, where she needed to be to turn east on Route 64.

The woman told police she instead continued south on Route 31 and turned into the parking lot of a car-repair business. The Escalade’s driver, she said, turned around and pulled up next to her in the lot. The driver, she told police, then began questioning her, still apparently recording her.

The man asked her if she was an attorney named Kathy, the woman told police, and whether or not she had been photographing his home. She said she told the man she was not an attorney named Kathy and that she was just trying to go to work. After the the exchange, which she told police lasted about six or seven minutes, the Escaladae’s driver told her he was trying to protect his personal interests and then sped off northbound.

She also told police that she had been alarmed and disturbed by the incident and went to the police department to report it. The woman was unable to provide police with a license plate number for the Escalade.

Police said the owner of the business where the parking lot encounter confirmed he had seen the Escalade and the woman’s vehicle in his lot, and that he was about to go and ask them to move when the Escalade departed.