Police Charge Two After Tinley Home Break-in

After a foot chase, arrested a 19-year-old man and a juvenile Monday and charged them with residential burglary.

Police pursued the duo around 1:25 a.m., when they received reports a pair of men were looking in the windows of a home in the area of 174th Street and Harlem Avenue, they said. Alexander J. Mendoza, 19, of the 7300 block of West 175th Street in , and a juvenile were taken into custody, police said, after officers chased them through area back yards. The names of juveniles are not released in reports.

The original call came from a resident in the 17400 block of Harlem Avenue, according to the report.

"(Officers) walked to the back of the residence … and witnessed two male subjects hopping a fence in the southeast corner of the yard," the report stated.

When the victim arrived home, police asked her to check her residence to see if anything was missing.

"(She) related that the back door should not have been open," the report stated. "The bedrooms had been gone through and her son's Xbox and games were packed into a bag on his bed and that's not how it should be."

Random jewelry was also reported missing from a bedroom in the home, according to a report. The resident said she believed the culprits had been people who were harassing her son, but didn't know for sure.

Mendoza told police that while he was at his home, the juvenile came over and told him he was "going to a guy's house to get some weed," according to the report.

"He related that the juvenile said that this guy had ripped him off a couple days earlier," the report stated. "They arrived at the residence and knocked on the door several times and there was no answer. He related that they walked around to the back door and the juvenile kicked the door in."

The two entered the place and began searching for marijuana, Mendoza told police. He also said they found an Xbox and games, and that he threw a gym bag to the juvenile to pack the items in. He then said his partner in crime went into other rooms and placed random items in his pockets.

When the two saw police approaching, they ran out the back door, according to the report.

They each were charged with one count of felony residential burglary, police said.

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