Stolen Recliner, Mirror and Newspaper Plus Other Bizarre Crimes
A look at unusual crimes in our Patch region.
Local police departments provided the following reports. In all incidents where an arrest occurred, a charge is merely an accusation and not evidence of guilt.
A red leather recliner was stolen from in front of a Wilmette home.
That would scare the @%$! out of me
A Wilmette man was getting out of the bathroom in his upstairs bedroom when he heard male voices downstairs. He called out and saw two men quickly leave and chased them until they drove away.
Thieves want to smell nice on Valentine's Day, too
Two bottles of cologne and a bottle of perfume were stolen in separate incidents on the same day from stores in Golf Mill Shopping Center.
He probably doesn't mean his newspaper reading habit
Police responded to a report of a theft at a Des Plaines Jewel-Osco where a Chicago man was arrested for allegedly taking items, including dozens of packs of cigarettes, packs of Prevacid, Claritin, Zantac, Prilosec, Abreva and one USA Today newspaper.
The man told police, according to the report, that he “steals to support the habit.”
A Chicago man was riding in the back seat of a taxi in Skokie when he allegedly became agitated at another driver on the road. Police said he got out of the taxi, walked up to the vehicle that upset him, and punched the driver’s side window.
Mirror, mirror on the ... doh!
A driver’s side mirror was stolen from a vehicle parked at Northbrook Court.
Separation of church and drain
A 7-foot copper downspout was stolen from the side of a Skokie church.
