OMG PD: Odd Crimes in Our Patch Region

Local police departments provided the following reports. In all incidents where an arrest occurred, a charge is merely an accusation and not evidence of guilt.

A cab driver told police he drove two females and a male from Chicago to Des Plaines on June 25. When they arrived, the passengers refused to pay the $75 fare. One of the females told the driver that she was a stripper and asked if she could strip for him at a later date as payment. He declined the offer. The three then fled. 

Evanston police said a man was led into an alley by a woman who asked him if he wanted to smoke pot and party. Once in the alley, the woman and two men hit the victim on the face, knocking him unconscious and stealing his wallet.

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Someone stole a rooftop mounted light bar from an Illinois State Police squad car parked at the Cook County Circuit Courthouse in Skokie on June 15. No security cameras were positioned to capture the incident. 

Yet someone forgot Big Brother was indeed watching here

A 20-year-old Northbrook man was issued a local ordinance ticket for possession of cannabis and drug paraphernalia June 23 after police allegedly observed him on video cameras at the Metra station smoking what appeared to be a pipe.  

Two barefoot prints were left on the roof of a Mercedes-Benz convertible in Glencoe. The shoe-less perpetrator dented the hood, causing $1,500 in damages.

A rear passenger window on an SUV driving on Madison Street in River Forest was shattered June 25. Damage was done with a golf ball.

A Des Plaines woman reported that a camera and a pair of gold earrings were stolen from her vehicle while it was parked June 25. According to the police report, the woman noticed in the morning that the driver's side door was ajar but didn't think anything of it until she noticed the items were missing later that afternoon.

A 20-year-old Long Grove man was charged in the attempted theft of $124 worth of underwear and tank tops from the Macy’s at Old Orchard Mall in Skokie on June 20.

Two Nintendo games belonging to a little boy were stolen from the Des Plaines library June 26 while the owner was attending a Pokemon event.