Police Blotter: Lottery Tickets Stolen, Renovator Gets Violent

FRIDAY, JUNE 8

Lottery Tickets Lifted

Personnel at Dino's in the 400 block of Ashland Avenue told police he noticed 30 Illinois Lottery $3 Million Cash Bonanza scratch cards missing from the front counter of the store. The tickets were valued at $600 but had not been validated yet, according to the report. The Illinois State Lottery was notified about the incident, police said. 

Different Kind of Streetwalker

Renard Anderson, 54, of the 11300 block of South Wentworth Avenue in Chicago, was arrested and charged with public intoxication after police saw him on Halsted Street asking drivers for money, according to the report. Anderson told police he was trying to get money so he could take a bus to Riverdale. Police smelled alcohol on Anderson's breath and took him into custody, according to the report. He was also charged with improper walking on a roadway and soliciting on a roadway.

Battery

A 47-year-old Chicago Heights man told police a 25-year-old man approached him asking about gutters that were taken from a home he was renovating. The interrogator then became angry and punched the man in the face twice, according to the report. Police were unable to locate the man, according to the report.

Bad Ride Home

A 25-year-old Chicago Heights woman told police she gave her ex-boyfriend a ride to cash his paycheck, but on the way back to his house an argument started between the two. The man threw a can of pop at his ex-girlfriend before kicking the right side of her vehicle, according to the report. He then punched out the rear window with his fist before fleeing the area, police said. 

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