OMG PD: Throwing Parties, F-Bombs and Ice Cream

Posted by Charles Menchaca (Editor)

WHEATON

The Kindness of Strangers

A man suspects that an unknown male he gave a ride to earlier in the evening June 11 took his $500 cell phone. The male asked the man if he could drive him up the block to catch up with a group of friends who had walked ahead of him. The man agreed and dropped him off near the 300 block of West Seminary Avenue. While the man was driving home, he noticed his cell phone was missing from the center console.

More Fun at the Fair

Someone drove a golf cart on June 8 through the grandstands at the DuPage County Fairgrounds on the 2000 block of West Manchester Road. The cart collided with several wooden tables and metal chairs, according to police.

ST. CHARLES

Car vs. Cantaloupe-Sized Rock 

A Batavia man reported at 3:53 p.m. June 12 that he was eastbound on the 1500 block of East Main Street when the front left tire of his car struck a cantaloupe-size rock, causing the sidewall of the tire to burst. The man wanted a police report to take to the Illinois Department of Transportation for possible reimbursement.

GLEN ELLYN

Shaving Cream "Art"?

DOWNERS GROVE

Ice Cream Killer

A woman in her early 40s at 7:34 p.m. June 15 went into an ice cream shop on the 6300 block of Woodward Avenue. She had a small ice cream container that she claimed she purchased from the store a few days ago. When an employee told her that she wasn't authorized to give refunds, the woman became irate and threw the ice cream container towards her.

"The subject told her that she worked for the government and she had a gun in her car and she was going to return and kick her ass or get the gun and return to kill her," said the police report for this incident.

Hands All Over

A male stranger put his hands on a woman on the 3000 block of Finley Road on June 13, but not without injury. The 30-year-old woman pulled into the parking lot at about 10 a.m. outside where she has classes. The man was sitting on a curb and got up to ask her if she knew the time. As she looked down, the man placed his hand on the middle of her back.

"He then slid his hand downwards and slipped his fingers into the waistband of (the woman's) jeans," the report said. "She then used the palm of her hand to strike the offender in the nose and cause him to bleed." Read the full report for this incident. 

Vandals Drop F-Bomb on Teacher’s House

Someone wrote "F--- You" in black spray paint on a wall of a woman's house on the 5500 block of Fairmount Avenue. The incident occurred sometime between 9:15 p.m. June 11 and 7:45 a.m. June 12. The woman is a teacher at an undisclosed school, but she doesn't think students are targeting her, the report said. 

HINSDALE

He Doesn’t Want You … He Wants the Snake

Michael A. Gonzalez, 30, of the 500 block of East Bailey, Naperville, was charged with residential burglary at 10:40 a.m. June 12. Gonzalez was arrested at the Hinsdale Police Department following an investigation into an Aug. 12, 2012 incident on the 500 block of Mills Street. Gonzalez is accused of entering his ex's unlocked home and taking a pet snake valued at $450, according to police.

BURR RIDGE

Blame the Parent

Robert Slowik, 46, of the 15W200 block of 72nd Street, was charged with having a prohibited gathering at his home. Slowik was arrested at 11 p.m. May 31 after police responded to his house for a loud noise complaint and discovered a graduation party with underage drinking, according to a report.

NAPERVILLE

Silly Scam

A Naperville man on June 19 received a check for $3,750 and a letter saying he won $135,000, but he needed to send money to a company in Sweden to pay for the taxes before receiving the rest of the winnings, police said.

Sounded Just Like Her

A woman reported that she heard somebody walk into her apartment June 16 and open kitchen cabinets in the 1800 block of South Washington Street, police said. She did not check to see who it was because she assumed it was her daughter. She later learned that it was not her daughter and called police.

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