Crime & Safety

Vehicles, Homes, Playground Equipment and More Vandalized

As summer turns to fall, you can just hear the crunching of leaves—and the shattering of glass. Following are property damage reports from the Elmhurst police for August and September.

Someone broke the door handles off the pump station at 321 E. Geneva between noon July 31 and 2:11 p.m. Aug. 1. Graffiti also was found on the doors.

A front window on a business on the 200 block of North York was smashed at 1 a.m. Aug. 5. A witness told police he saw two or three males from a distance in front of him and heard the crash of glass breaking. The building is vacant and attempts to contact the owner were not successful.

Window screens were broken due to eggs thrown at a home on the 200 block of Poplar at 10:07 a.m. Aug. 7.

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Someone dug up flowers and threw them around at a home on the 400 block of South Arlington at 10:31 p.m. Aug. 11. Loss is estimated at $25.

Someone backed into a mailbox on the 400 block of North Emroy between 11:40 a.m. and 1:40 p.m. Aug. 14, causing $100 in damage.

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The rear window of a vehicle parked on the 300 block of West North Avenue was broken between 5:30 and 6:20 p.m. Aug. 15. Damage is estimated at $200.

Someone scratched the side of a 2005 Honda Odyssey parked in the west parking lot of the Elmhurst police department, 125 E. First St., between 2:15 and 4:20 p.m. Aug. 17. It looked like the 2-foot scratch was caused by a key.

Four tires on a vehicle were found to be slashed on the 800 block of Geneva Court at 5:21 a.m. Aug. 19.

A vehicle was damaged while it was parked in a lot on the 100 block of Fellows Court between 5 p.m. Aug. 21 and 8 a.m. Aug. 22. The victim said she was woken in the middle of the night by a loud noise, and she saw a man in his 20s swinging a belt and hitting cars.

The door handle was broken off of the door that faces to the north of the baseball press box at Butterfield Park between noon Aug. 19 and 1:30 p.m. Aug. 23. The door also was dented. 

A resident on the 600 block of Indiana Street noticed a foot-long tear in her first-floor window screen facing the front of her home. She suspected the damage occurred between 2 p.m. Aug. 22 and 2 p.m. Aug. 24. Police also saw two puncture holes above the tear but there were no signs of entry into the home.

A resident of the 200 block of South Pick reported three males were in his driveway at midnight Sept. 2. He yelled at them to leave, and one of the subjects threw the resident's solar light fence post cap onto the ground, causing it to break.

A 12-inch scratch was found on the right front quarterpanel of a Chevrolet Impala parked on the 400 block of Elm Avenue at 5 p.m. Sept. 4. Damage is estimated at $200.

Several pieces of playground equipment were vandalized at Berens Park, 493 N. Oaklawn Ave., between 3 and 11 p.m. Sept. 9.

A front glass storm door on a house on the 700 block of N. Adele was broken at 8:34 p.m. Sept. 10. The offender is described as a white man, 22 years old, 6 feet tall and 130 pounds, with dark, shaggy hair. A blood trail was found along the north side of the driveway and ended in the middle of the road at Fullerton and Howard. Damage is estimated at $25.

Someone shot two BBs into the street light lens covers of a street light on the 800 block of South Chatham. The damage was discovered at 11:31 a.m. Sept. 16, when a public works employee was changing the lens covers.

Someone keyed the passenger side of a black Nissan Rogue parked on the 100 block of South Myrtle between 3:30 p.m. Sept. 13 and 11:30 a.m. Sept. 16, causing $500 in damage.

Someone cut the cable line for internet service at the rear of a building at Shipaholic Plus, 643 N. York, between 6:15 p.m. Sept. 18 and 8 a.m. Sept. 19.

Someone broke a picnic table worth $1,000 at the YMCA, 211 W. First St., between 5 p.m. Sept. 23 and 9:30 a.m. Sept. 24.

Graffiti was found on the cement underpass at St. Charles and Salt Creek at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 26.

Someone smashed out the front windshield of a Toyota parked on the 800 block of North York between 12:01 and 7:30 a.m. Sept. 28. 

The passenger window and side mirror were broken on a vehicle parked at Klatt Jorwic and Associates, 127 W. Wrightwood Ave., between 3 p.m. Sept. 28 and 6 p.m. Sept. 29. Nothing was missing from the vehicle.

A degrading word was scratched into the front passenger side of a Chevy Malibu parked on the 200 block of North Larch between 6:30 a.m. Oct. 2 and 6:30 a.m. Oct. 3. Damage is estimated at $200.


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