Monday, May 21, 2012
Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki said police are looking at an anti-racism group as the source of the attack.
Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki said police believe those involved in Saturday’s mob attack inside a local restaurant came from a group called Anti-Racist Action. Zabrocki told the Chicago Tribune the police are examining the possible connection with the group and that they also believe the target of the attack was a gathering of white supremacists. The Anti-Racist Action website posted a response Saturday to Patch’s coverage of the mob-style attack at Ashford House that officials say included 15 to 18 black-clad people that targeted a specific group. Eyewitnesses told Patch the attackers were armed with bats and hammers. The website's post credited the attack to a group of “anti-fascists” who directly targeted the gathering. Ashford House …
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Taco Bell trip gone bad, driver stranded on a median, driver hits house. This week's roundup of Southland drunken driving arrests.
TINLEY PARK May 15: Federico Garcia, 34, of the 13900 block of Walter Drive in Midlothian, was charged with improper lane use, driving under the influence of alcohol, illegal transportation of alcohol and driving without a valid driver's license. Police pulled over Garcia in the 16100 block of Harlem Avenue in Tinley Park after he was reportedly swerving in his lane, nearly striking other vehicles on the roadway. Police found a can of Modelo beer in the cup holder, according to the report. Garcia told them that was the only beer he'd drank that day but then failed field sobriety tests, police said. He refused to give a breath sample at the Tinley Park Police Department. Police found an empty beer can in the bed of Garcia's truck, they …
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Ten people were injured in the Saturday afternoon attack. Three were hospitalized.
Updated at 8:52 p.m. A group of ‘anti-facists’ are being credited with Saturday’s mob-style attack inside a Tinley Park restaurant. An anti-racist website posted a response to the Patch story "Police: Mob Attacked Specific Group of People Inside Tinley Park Restaurant." The post states that “a group of 30 anti-fascists descended” on the restaurant “where the 5th annual White Nationalist Economic Summit and Illinois White Nationalist Meet-and-Greet" was reportedly taking place. “These anti-fascists are committed to shutting down and attacking any racist, nationalist or fascist organizers or individuals that they encounter,” the post states. Tinley Park police have not confirmed the claims. Updated at 8:06 p.m. Police are holding five people…
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A former Oak Lawn-area physician faces a sex abuse criminal trial and possible civil action after accusations that he touched patients. Two Frankfort sex crime cases muddle on and more in this week's court case review.
The Southland's major criminal and civil cases heard in Cook County and Will County courts this week. OAK LAWN — Looking slender in a conservative dark suit, former Advocate Christ Medical Center physician Rajat Prakash was back in court on Thursday for a status hearing before Cook County Judge Maureen Daly in Bridgeview. The doctor faces a misdemeanor battery charge that he fondled a 32-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis while she was in a semi-conscious state. A second woman has accused Prakash of forcing her to touch his penis while sitting in his car to discuss her medical case in a Starbucks parking lot in Oak Lawn last November. Prakash was charged with felony criminal sexual abuse by force on May 4, following a months-long …
Friday, May 18, 2012
Officers said an area woman arrested on driving under the influence charges was muttering some peculiar statements in the back of the squad car.
Police said an Oak Forest woman who reportedly drove up onto a concrete median in Tinley Park last week blew more than three times the blood-alcohol limit. Officers arrested Meredith C. Covelli, 41, of the 6800 block of West Oakview Court in Oak Forest, around 11 p.m. May 8 in the 16700 block of 80th Avenue in Tinley. Police said she was seat belted in the driver's seat of her 2010 Kia, which was stopped on a concrete parking median at the entrance to a parking lot. She was pushing on the gas and trying to steer, according to the report. "The vehicle was in such a position that it would not move as the wheels were not touching the ground," an officer wrote in the report. Follow Oak Forest Patch on Facebook to keep up on crime news! …
Oak Forest-related police reports for May 12-15.
SATURDAY, MAY 12 Daniel J. Coffey, 44, of the 7100 block of Coachwood Trail in Tinley Park, was arrested around 4:15 p.m. at his home on a failure-to-appear warrant out of the Oak Forest Police Department for possession of drug paraphernalia. His bail was set at $5,000. MONDAY, MAY 14 Cordarryl Q. Jones, 25, of 16229 South Kedzie Ave. in Markham, was charged with driving with a revoked driver's license and possession of stolen property. Jones was stopped at about 8:41 p.m. after an Oak Forest officer using a radar gun clocked the vehicle she was driving going 43 mph in a 25 mph zone. During a search of the car, police found a driver's license belonging to an Orland Park woman. A call to the Orland Park Police Department determined that …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Jose Rosado says this is the second time someone taped a Klu Klux Klan reference to his home.
An Oak Forest man said he doesn't know who taped a Klu Klux Klan calling card to his garage earlier this month. Jose Rosado, 41, told police a business card that referenced the white supremacist group and a Belleville, IL, address was stuck to his garage some time after 7 p.m. the night of May 8. "I don't understand why. I'm not racist. I love all races," Rosado said. This isn't the first time Rosado, who lives in the 15000 block of El Vista Avenue with his wife and four children, has dealt with this kind of vandalism. Last year, a piece of duct tape was stuck to his garage with the letters "KKK" written on it in black marker, Rosado said. Rosado, who is a part of a local neighborhood watch group, said he felt his house was specifically …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Cook County Medical Examiner is looking into what killed a private school bus driver Wednesday morning. Police said no children were on the bus when the driver was found.
UPDATE 3:48 p.m. No children were present on a private school bus where the driver was found dead Wednesday morning, police said. A Positive Connections school bus driver was found unresponsive at about 10:12 a.m. near 147th Street and Cicero Avenue, said Midlothian Deputy Police Chief Steve Zamiar. Paramedics pronounced the female driver dead at the scene. The bus was empty aside from the driver, police said. "It was not coming from a school. It had no children on it," Zamiar said. He added that it was not connected with a school district. The driver, whose name has not yet been released, died before she made her expected run to Brother Rice High School, said Mike Straus, regional vice president for Positive Connections. "She was starting…
Will County has squashed a swingers club based out of a Beecher home owned by Mark Ferrari, former owner of now-defunct Mokena sports bar and restaurant The Colosseum, Chicago Tribune reports.
A swingers club operating out of the foreclosed home of a former Mokena business owner is no more, the Chicago Tribune reports. Police reportedly found a "dungeon room," sex swings and a mini-orgy room in "Club Erotica," inside the Beecher home owned by Mark Ferrari, once-owner of now-defunct The Colosseum in Mokena. Club Erotica, with the motto "If it feels good, do it," held themed sex parties with food and musical laser-light shows for about six months in the rural, cabin-style home, which was filled with taxidermied animals, records show. Authorities shut down the club due to lack of proper permits, according to the report. The club was operated by another man, named only as "Mike" in the reports. Ferrari is believed to have fled the …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
One casualty: a wooden wishing well.
A Tinley Park woman is facing multiple citations, including one for drunken driving, after a trip to Taco Bell went off course. Elizabeth N. Naegele, 19, of 17927 66th Ct. in Tinley Park, is accused of crashing into a parked car and driving into the front yard of an Oak Forest home, destroying a wooden wishing well lawn decoration on May 10. Police said they responded to a single-car crash at about 2:45 a.m. in the 15000 block of Waverly Avenue. During their investigation, police determined that the green 1995 Pontiac Grand Am slammed into a car parked in a driveway, hopped a ditch and came to a stop in a nearby yard. Naegele was bleeding from the mouth and was taken to South Suburban Hospital for treatment. There, according to police, she…
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