Crime & Safety

Police Blotter: City Employee Busts Accused Scavengers

Chicago Heights police reports, Jan. 12-16.

MONDAY, JAN. 16

You Feel Like What?

An employee at Z Force Transportation on Joe Orr Road told police that after he fired a 27-year-old Chicago Heights man, the angry ex-employee said, "I feel like (expletive) somebody up today." The man left and police told the employee to contact the man and thell him his final paycheck would be mailed to him, according to the report. 

THURSDAY, JAN. 12

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'Where's My Baby?'

A 69-year-old Chicago Heights woman told police a man she met at her church entered her home through an unlocked door without permission and began asking "Where's my baby?" The woman told the 38-year-old man she did not know who he was talking about and asked him to leave but the man refused, according to the report. The woman finally was able to escort the man out of her home, according to the report.

Busted Scrapping

Carlos Eduardo Lopez, 41, and Larry E. Nielson, 53, both of the 8100 block of Patterson Avenue in Dyer, IN, were arrested and charged with unlicensed scrapping after Chicago Heights Streets and Sewers Department Director Mike Sabo saw them cutting steel beams at an abandoned building in the 1700 block of State Street, according to the report. The two tried to flee in a pickup truck, but Sabo's vehicle was blocking the exit, according to the report. Asked what they were doing, the men said scrapping, although neither had a license, according to police.

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Burglary

A 26-year-old Chicago Heights woman told police she returned to her Olympic Village apartment after going to the store and noticed her 50-inch flatscreen TV, laptop computer, Xbox 360 system and Wii system were all missing. The woman told police she believed the burglars entered through sliding glass doors in the apartment.

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