Crime & Safety
Teens Wearing 'Mardi Gras' Masks Arrested After Playing Prank: Cops
One of the pranksters was caught with pot and the other had unspecified drug paraphernalia, police said.
A prank ended badly for a couple teens after the cops tracked them down and arrested them.
One of the two young men, 19-year-old Eric Ocampo of 201 Willow Lane in Elk Grove Village, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. The other, David Knopp, 19, of 792 N. Geneva Ave. in Elmhurst, was charged with possession of cannabis.
Ocampo and Knopp ran afoul of the law after the police were alerted to men in "Mardi Gras style masks" menacing an individual near the corner of Fullerton and Howard avenues.
The police said the man told them "three (unknown) males wearing black hooded sweat shirts and Mardi Gras style masks approached him."
"They asked him if he wanted to fight," police said. "The subjects then got in their (blue Chevy Impala) and left."
The police released no details on how they hunted down the men in the masks but said once the "offenders were located" they "related they were friends with the victim and were playing a prank."
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