The plot was foiled thanks to a Homewood resident's suspicions, according to police reports.
A Homewood resident foiled an attempted two-man ruse burglary at his Hood Ave. home on Wednesday, Dec. 26, according to police. Police say a grey car parked in the man’s driveway around 3 p.m. and a man exited, claiming to be a new neighbor. The resident invited the “neighbor” inside, but quickly grew suspicious as the stranger tried to persuade him to go to the back of the house, according to the report. As the resident protested, another man made a surprise entrance through the front door, police said. Reports say the resident “started screaming at the offenders to get out of the house” and the two strangers fled westbound on Linden Road. Police say they searched the area for the man but were unable to find them. Police describe the …
Homewood police reports, April 14-17
TUESDAY, APRIL 17 Charee Taylor, 22, of the 500 block of Winneconna Parkway in Chicago was charged with retail theft. Police said Taylor loaded a shopping cart with more than $400 worth of electrical wire and replaced the price tags with those of items totaling only $19. She was stopped and arrested after using the self-checkout lane, around 2 p.m., according to the report. MONDAY, APRIL 16 A couple living in the 1800 block of Evergreen Road were the latest victims of a ruse type residential burglary. The couple told police that a Hispanic man approached the home around 2 p.m. claiming to be a new neighbor. He asked to show in the back yard where he was planning to work along their adjacent properties, and during this made several phone …
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Jay Hutchens
10:45 am on Thursday, January 3, 2013
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