Police Blotter: A Not So Neighborly Litterbug; $1,000 Missing From Viking Lodge

MONDAY, DEC. 12

A Not So Neighborly Litterbug

A local man called the cops around 7:45 a.m., when he saw his neighbor take a piece of trash that had blown onto the lawn and toss it into his backyard, according to the report. The McDonald's bag, plastic McDonald's cup and empty Arizona iced tea gallon container was lying in the victim's front yard and he was going to pick it up that day, the report said.

"(The victim) said that before he could pick it up his neighbor, William Bonow, picked up the refuse, used his foot to push open the door portion of (the victim's) fence and threw the debris onto the grass in (the victim's) backyard," the report said.

The victim confronted Bonow, who picked up everything except for the bag, police said. Bonow, 60, of , told police that he messed up "because he thought (the victim) wasn't home," the report said.

"He said he did not enter on his property … that he threw the garbage from a vacant property that adjoins (the two)."

Bonow later told police his previously made statements were off the record, the report said, and denied throwing the trash. He was issued a local ordinance violation for trespassing and a local ordinance violation for depositing garbage on private property. 

Tools Stolen From Utility Vehicle

Sometime between midnight and 6 a.m., someone stole various tools from a work van that was parked in the 18200 block of Eagle Drive in Tinley Park. The owner said the vehicle may have been unlocked at the time of the theft. A tile cutter, grinder, Garmin GPS, two saws and a chipper were missing, the report said. 

Thieves Strike Rizza's Again, Steal Airbag

said that between midnight on Dec. 10 and 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 12, someone removed the airbag from a used vehicle that was parked in the front row of the car dealership facing 159th Street. The airbag was valued at $1,000 and was taken from a 2010 Cadillac Escalade. Tony Rizza Cadillac is located at 8425 159th Street in Tinley Park. .

TUESDAY, DEC. 6

$1,000 Missing from Viking Lodge

Police were called Dec. 6 to the Harald Viking Lodge, 6730 175th St., Tinley Park, for a report of a missing cash drawer. One of the lodge's officers said that sometime between Nov. 28 around 10:30 a.m. and Nov. 30 around 10:30 a.m., someone stole a cash drawer from the safe that contained $1,000.

The officer had balanced the drawer and placed it in the safe on the 28th and when he returned on the 30th, it was missing but two other cash drawers were still there. He said only a janitor and officers were in the lodge during the time frame—a fact he verified with a printout of those who used the card key to get in the building. Police were in the midst of interviewing those folks last week. 

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