iPod and Potted Plants Pilfered: Homewood Police Blotter

THURSDAY, MAY 24

Stolen iPod

Someone ransacked two vehicles parked in the 1500 block of Linden Road between midnight and 7 a.m. and took an iPod with an estimated value of $200, police said.

Potted Plants Pilfered

Mark Bucek, 61, of 17814 Ashland Avenue, Homewood, was charged with retail theft at 10:09 a.m. Police said Bucek paid for two hanging plants inside a grocery store in the 2300 block of 183rd Street, then went outside and filled two shopping carts with several more plants with a total retail value of $104.94. A store employee confronted Bucek when he went to load the plants into his car.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23

Are You Threatening Me?

John Phillips, 32, of 842 Campus Avenue in Matteson, was charged with assault after he threatened a manager of a gas station in the 17900 block of Halsted Street at 4:50 p.m. The manager first thought Phillips was selling DVDs from a vehicle in the parking lot, but he soon realized he was mistaken. After refusing to leave, Phillips allegedly told the manager he was going to “break [his] face.” Police arrested Phillips a few blocks away, according to the police report.

All this—and Possession, too

Police arrested a juvenile at 9:04 a.m. near Turtle Creek Drive and Knollwood Place in Hazel Crest and charged him with speeding, driving while license suspended and driving without proof of insurance. The youth was stopped for driving 68 mph in a 45 mph zone. Police immediately noticed the smell of cannabis emanating from the vehicle. When the boy gave officers an expired insurance card and could not produce his driver’s license, he was taken into custody, the police report stated. Police then found a scale that had cannabis residue on it in the vehicle. The youth was also cited with possession of drug paraphernalia.

TUESDAY, MAY 22

Hit, Call, Punch, Snatch and Run

Constance Sutton, 47, 18028 Marlin Lane, Homewood, was charged with robbery and leaving the scene of an accident. Sutton and another motorist were involved in an accident near 175th Street and Governor’s Highway at 8:55 a.m. When the other woman tried using her cell phone to call the police, Sutton allegedly punched her in the face twice, wrestled the $300 Blackberry cell phone away and got in her car and took off. She was arrested a short time later.  

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