Crime & Safety
Man Dumps Pink Bike at Funeral Home; Rusty Van Stolen from Banana's, and More
Also in the latest police reports, dated June 27, July 12 and July 20-23, police find graffiti on a trailer, eyeglasses and a golfball-sized hole.
MONDAY, JULY 23
Graffiti on a Trailer
Police said the word "DOPE" and random symbols were spray-painted on a container trailer near the intersection of Longmeadow Drive and Walnut in . Two cans of spray paint, one aqua, one black, were found in a field near the container. Police collected them and placed them into evidence, they said.
SUNDAY, JULY 22
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Eyeglasses Found
Officers found a pair of children's prescription eyeglasses around 7:40 a.m. in Zabrocki Plaza, 17381 S. Oak Park Ave., Tinley Park.
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SATURDAY, JULY 21
Tools Taken
A man living in the 7700 block of West 173rd Place in said that between 9 p.m. July 20 and 1:30 p.m. July 21, someone removed a window pane in his garage in order to enter and steal several Craftsman hand tools. The tools were worth around $100, he said.
FRIDAY, JULY 20
Man Dumps Pink Bike at Funeral Home
Police said that around 4:15 p.m., they got a call from someone at Vandenberg Funeral Home, 17248 Harlem Ave., , saying they watch a man "dump a pink girls' bike behind the business and walk away southbound." Police took the bicycle to the Tinley Park Police Department and said it hadn't yet been reported stolen.
Possession of Marijuana
Sarah R. Noyes, no age or hometown given, was arrested around 8 p.m. in the 17800 block of Harlem Avenue and charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police said Noyes was a passenger in a vehicle during a traffic stop in with the driver was arrested and accused of speeding, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and driving with a suspended license.
THURSDAY, JULY 12
Rusty Van Stolen from Banana's
A man called police after realizing someone stole his blue GMC van from the parking lot at Banana's Bar and Grill, 18501 Convention Center Drive in . He said he parked the van in the bar's lot and left it for about two hours, between 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
Golf-Ball Sized Hole
A resident of the 6400 block of 163rd Place said that between 8:15 p.m. July 11 and 10 a.m. July 12, someone broke a window pane on his back door. Police said they found a "golf ball-sized hole" in the pane, which had spider cracks around it.
TUESDAY, JUNE 27
Warrant Arrest
Santos B. Campos, 32, of the 9100 block of Lincoln in Orland Park, was arrested around 1:20 a.m. in Orland Park on a warrant out of the for battery. His bail was set at $5,000.
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