Crime & Safety
Tinley Police Arrest Trio of Midlothian Men, Accuse Them of Burglary
Officers said they found three men last week who had just broken into a local home.
caught three men burglarizing a home on 76th Street Thursday morning after getting a call about a suspicious vehicle parked nearby, they said.
The call came in shortly before 10 a.m., according to the report. Officers said they got word of a suspicious vehicle running idle in a driveway in the 16200 block of South 76th Avenue in , where three men were also spotted.
When they got there, cops saw a man later identified as Kristopher Arvanites, 18, of the 14400 block of South Keeler Avenue in Midlothian, kneeling between a detached garage and a home. Officers tried to confront him and he ran, leaving behind a black bag that had in it a Toshiba laptop computer and a Sony PlayStation III, according to the report.
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Officers were working to track down the two other men, who witnesses said had also run from the scene. Arvanites and Anthony J. Swanson, 19, of the 14500 block of South Kostner Avenue in Midlothian, were found hiding behind a house in the 7600 block of West 163rd Street, police said. Zachary T. Cruz, 19, of the 14400 block of Kilpatrick Avenue in Midlothian, was found in the 7600 block of West 163d Street.
Police checked the residence to ensure no one else was inside. The front and back doors were closed but unlocked, they said, and a second-floor dining room window was open.
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When the residents of the home were contacted, they told police all the doors had been locked when the last person left. They also gave officers a list of what was missing. It included an iPad, Xbox games and controllers, headphones, PlayStation III games, a laptop, two pairs of Air Jordans an envelope with $150 in it and a Washington Redskins baseball cap. Everything except for one Xbox video game and the cash was recovered, police said.
Cruz, Arvanites and Swanson all gave police written statements but the content of those statements wasn't included in the report. Each man was charged with one felony count of residential burglary.
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