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Police Blotter: Breathalyzer Solves Language Difference

Oak Forest police reports, March 14-17.

SATURDAY, MARCH 17

Cuántas Cervezas?

Juan C. Aldama, 35, of the 17100 block of 71 st Avenue in Oak Forest was charged with driving under the influence, failure to reduce speed to avoid accident, no insurance and no driver's license. Police said Aldama rear-ended another car at 163rd Street and Central Avenue around 11 p.m. and was wobbling during questioning, smelling of alcohol. Officers could not administer field sobriety tests because, according to the report, Aldama doesn’t speak English—though he was able to tell them in Spanish how beers he had drank that night before failing a Breathalyzer.

THURSDAY, MARCH 15

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Complainant Becomes the Arrested

James B. Principe, 36, of the 15700 block of South Terrace Drive in Oak Forest was arrested on a Cook County warrant after calling police to report a stolen car. At the Oak Forest police station, he told officers that his 2004 blue Porsche Cayenne was stolen sometime between 8 p.m. March 14 and 8 a.m. March 15 near his house.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14

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Stolen Gear

Jason K. Hook, 20, of the 15400 block of Arroyo Drive in Oak Forest was charged with theft. Police said they were called around 5 a.m. about a man who had been seen inside a fenced yard in the 4800 block of 158th Street, near the Metra station. Officers stopped Hook a few blocks away and found a stolen fire extinguisher and radio in his backpack, according to the report. He told police the bag belonged to a friend, whom Hook refused to name.

They Said, They Said

John T. Bizzotto, 33, of the 16000 block of LeClaire Avenue in Oak Forest was charged with battery. Two men, interviewed independently, told police that Bizzotto struck one of them in the face and shoved another following an argument around 7 p.m. at Bizzotto’s home. He was arrested, according to the report, after he and a woman gave conflicting stories about what had happened on his property.

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