Man Beaten and Robbed While Driving on East End

A South Chicago Heights man picked up an acquaintence and was rewarded for his kindness with a punch in the head, according to the police report from a Jan. 6 incident.

The 43-year-old man told police he was driving north on East End Avenue near Main Street when a man he knows as "Black" flagged him down. The man stopped and let in Black, who he knows from parole classes, according to the report. 

Black then hit the man in the head, took his phone and tried to take his keys before getting out of the vehicle and running north on East End, the man told police. 

The man drove around the block looking for his attacker with no luck. Police were also unable to locate the offender, who was described as a 6-foot, 200-pound man in his mid-30s, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and dark jeans at the time of the incident. 

Chicago Heights Fire Department personnel were at the scene but the man refused medical treatment.

Read last week's police stories on Chicago Heights Patch:

• Woman Uses Pregnancy Pants to Smuggle Steaks Out of Ultra Foods: Police
• Argument Over Change Leads to Gun Threats: Police Blotter
• Second Prison Escapee Arrested in Palos Hills

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