Downers Grove Crime

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• Theft of Hundreds of Dollars in Change, DUI Reported...

  9 hrs ago | via Patch.com 

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• Orland Park Police Blotter: Pocketed Pills and False...

  Yesterday | via Patch.com 

  WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 Pocket Pills Police pulled over a vehicle after the driver was seen not wearing a seat belt near Orland Square Drive and 94 th Avenue around 8:05 p.m. Police smelled burnt marijuana and searched the car, where they found a container and a grinder with small amounts marijuana inside, as well as two packets of cigarette papers and ... (more)

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• Police Blotter: Residential Burglary, Purse Stolen f...

  Wednesday | via Patch.com 

  May 24A Driving under the influence Joy Bloomfield-Thomas, 45, from the 10 block of Emma Court in Bolingbrook, was arrested around 12:55 a.m. and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol following a traffic stop near the intersection of Route 53 and Everglade Avenue, Woodridge police said.

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• DUI Charge Filed Against Man Stopped for Driving on ...

  Tuesday May 29 | via Patch.com 

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• 20-Year-Old Female Struck by Train, Two Burger Joint...

  Saturday May 26 | via Patch.com 

  The following arrest information was supplied by the Glen Ellyn Police Department.

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• Ticketed driver in Geneva crash cited again days later

  Thursday May 24 | via Kane Co. Chronicle 

  GENEVA – The driver who was ticketed in a serious crash earlier this month was ticketed again 11 days later when she drove off the road and into a field, according to police reports.

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• 20-Year-Old Drives Off Kirk Road 11 Days After Headl...

  Wednesday May 23 | via Patch.com 

  The 20-year-old driver involved in a high-speed, one-car crash May 4 at Bennett and Dodson streets drove off Kirk Road in another single-car accident 11 days later, Geneva police reports indicate.

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• Man Calls Police on Himself, Shoplifts to get Arrested

  Wednesday May 23 | via Patch.com 

  The following incidents and arrests were reported by the Downers Grove Police Department: Criminal Trespass to Land Matthew Borgh, 20, of 4422 Wilson Avenue in Downers Grove, was charged with retail theft on May 13 after intentionally stealing a bag of potato chips from the BP on Main Street just to be arrested.

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• 20-Year-Old Drives Off Kirk Road 11 Days After Headl...

  Wednesday May 23 | via Patch.com 

  The 20-year-old driver involved in a high-speed, one-car crash May 4 at Bennett and Dodson streets drove off Kirk Road in another single-car accident 11 days later, Geneva police reports indicate.

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• The couch potato's hero: Inventor of the world's fir...

  Tuesday May 22 | via Daily Mail 

  He died of natural causes on Sunday at the age of 96 at the Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, Illinois.

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• Blotter: Driving While License Revoked

  Thursday May 17 | via Patch.com 

  A Rafael A. Pineda, of Downers Grove, was charged with driving while license revoked on May 17 at approximately 7:13 a.m. at the intersection of River Bend Drive and Four Lakes Avenue.

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• Narcotic Pill Found on Downers Grove South Student

  Wednesday May 16 | via Patch.com 

  Officials discovered a narcotic pill in the backpack of a Downers Grove South student May 7, according to Downers Grove police .A Nicola Lostumbo, 18, of 507 61 st Street in Westmont, was stopped with two other students for leaving campus and coming back, according to police.

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• Unidentified Man Seen Photographing Girls at Fischel...

  Wednesday May 16 | via Patch.com 

  The following incidents and arrests were reported by the Downers Grove Police Department: Suspicious Incident A group of girls were photographed by an unknown white male at Fischel Park on May 13 around 5 p.m. The girls said they were taking pictures of each other and noticed a flash come from the direction of the parking lot behind Emmet's Ale ... (more)

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• Downers Grove Police Charge Darien Man with Deceptiv...

  Tuesday May 15 | via Patch.com 

  Michael Sergent Jr, 32, of 1212 Sleepy Hollow Lane in Darien, was charged with attempted theft by deception on May 7 after trying to con an employee of Roundhead's on 63 rd A Street into paying Sergent for a bogus dry cleaning bill, Downers Grove police said.

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• Two Men Get into Fight at Pool Hall

  Friday May 11 | via Patch.com 

  The following incidents and arrests were reported by the Downers Grove Police Department: Battery Matthew Holzkopf, 30, of 5840 Walnut in Downers Grove, and Nicholas Fuoco, 36, of 2239 Oakridge in Aurora, were charged with fighting in public following an altercation at 63 rd Street Billiards on May 5. According to an employee, Holzkop had been ... (more)

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• Teen Driver in Tuesday Night Crash in Montgomery Dies

  Thursday May 10 | via Patch.com 

  Officials in the DuPage County Coroner's Office have confirmed that Jennifer VanEtten, the 16-year-old driver of the minivan in Tuesday night's crash in Montgomery , died Wednesday afternoon.

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• Teen dies from injuries in Montgomery truck-van crash

  Thursday May 10 | via The Beacon-News 

  A 16-year-old Hinckley-Big Rock High School student has died from injuries she suffered in a head-on collision near Route 30 and Orchard Road this week.

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• Driver in Tuesday Night Crash Dies

  Thursday May 10 | via Patch.com 

  Officials in the DuPage County Coroner's Office have confirmed that Jennifer Vanetten, the 16-year-old driver of the minivan in Tuesday night's crash in Montgomery, died Wednesday afternoon.

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• DGPD to Hold Barth Memorial Service on May 14

  Thursday May 10 | via Patch.com 

  From the Village of Downers Grove website : The Downers Grove Police Department holds this annual memorial service during National Law Enforcement Week to remember fallen officers, including the only Downers Grove officer to die in the line of duty, Officer Richard J. Barth.

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• Montgomery crash victim in critical condition

  Wednesday May 9 | via The Beacon-News 

  A 16-year-old girl was in critical condition Wednesday, following a head-on collision near Route 30 and Orchard Road Tuesday night.

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