Northwest suburban police blotter

Arlington HeightsAnyone having information about any serious crime in Arlington Heights can submit an anonymous text tip by texting the keyword 847AHPD and a message to 847411, or call Arlington Heights Crime Stoppers at (847) 590-7867. Callers are guaranteed anonymity and may qualify for a cash reward of up to $1,000.bull; Vandals blew up a plastic mailbox at a home on the 4100 block of North Harvard Avenue between 9 p.m. July 30 and 8:30 a.m. July 31. A resident heard an explosion around 10 p.m. Damage was estimated at $50.bull; Four teenage boys attempted to burglarize an unlocked 1994 GMC Suburban in a driveway on the 1400 block of North Dunton Avenue around 10:15 p.m. July 19. A woman was sitting in her car in the same driveway, talking on her cell phone. She looked up and saw two of the teens leaning in a passenger's-side door of her husband's car. The two other teens were standing by the front bumper. She honked her horn and they ran away. bull; Burglars reached through an open window on a 2005 Ford Explorer in a driveway on the 800 block of South Belmont Avenue between 10 p.m. July 26 and 5 a.m. July 27 and stole a GPS valued at $170.bull; Burglars stole a GPS valued at $250 out of an unlocked GMC Acadia in a driveway on the 400 block of South Belmont Avenue between 10 p.m. July 30 and 8 a.m. July 31, and used keys found in the GMC to open a 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee in the same driveway and steal a pair of sunglasses.bull; Burglars stole a GPS unit, phone charger cord and MP3 player charging station out of an unlocked 2004 Volvo XC90 in a driveway on the 700 block of South Belmont Avenue between 12:15 and 8:40 a.m. July 31. Value was estimated at $540. bull; Burglars stole an MP3 player and cell phone out of an unlocked 2006 Chevrolet Uplander van in a driveway on the 900 block of North Patton between midnight and 6 a.m. July 20. Value was estimated at $150.bull; Burglars stole a cell phone valued at $50 and a few pocketknives out of an unlocked 2002 GMC Safari van on the 900 block of North Patton between 7 p.m. July 25 and 8 a.m. July 26.bull; Burglars stole a camera valued at $250 and a laser measuring unit valued at $50 out of an unlocked 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer on the 500 block of South Vail Avenue, and a GPS valued at $250 out of an unlocked 2007 Subaru Outback on the 700 block of South Vail Avenue between 8 p.m. July 30 and 7:30 a.m. July 31. bull; Burglars stole a bag with six packs of cigarettes out of an unlocked 2004 Ford Freestar van and rifled through an unlocked 2007 Ford Edge in the same driveway on the 1200 block of South Pine Avenue between 8:30 p.m. July 30 and 8 a.m. July 31.bull; Thieves stole 11 solar landscape lights valued at $200 at a home on the 100 block of West White Oak Street between noon and 8 p.m. July 29.bull; Two male juveniles stole a bottle of whiskey valued at $20 out of Mariano's Fresh Market, 802 E. Northwest Hwy., around 6:30 p.m. July 30. A security agent chased them; they dropped the bottle on the landscape gravel near the store, breaking the bottle. They fled before officers arrived.bull; Two teenage boys and a teenage girl riding in a white Honda minivan between 5:45 and 6 p.m. Aug. 1 reached out and stole a large plastic yellow sign with the words: "Caution Kids at Play." A homeowner on the 300 block of East Rockwell Street had put the sign in front of his house while his children were playing outside. Value was estimated at $11.bull; Sara Jo Kirschokas, 22, address listed was a hotel on the 400 block of West Algonquin Road, Arlington Heights, was arrested around 9:35 p.m. July 30 at the hotel and charged with prostitution, after an undercover officer answered her backpage.com ad. Her court date is Aug. 26.Barringtonbull; Vandals placed paper towels soaked in lighter fluid inside one mailbox on the 900 block of Williamsburg Park and seven mailboxes on the 800 block of Bosworthfield and set the towels on fire, damaging the mailboxes and burning pieces of mail between 8 p.m. July 30 and 3:30 p.m. July 31. Damage to the Williamsburg mailbox was estimated at $75. bull; Thieves stole a wrist bag from a woman working in a booth during Sidewalk Days between 4:30 and 4:45 p.m. July 30 in a parking lot at 150 W. Main St. The offenders took the bag off a table, removed a driver's license, debit/credit card and $40 and dropped the bag.bull; Thieves stole a boys gray 5-speed bicycle with a green bag on the front between 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. July 30 in a bike rack outside the Barrington Library, 505 N. Northwest Hwy. Value was estimated at $300. Two boys ages 12 to 13 years old were seen riding away on the bicycle.bull; Burglars stole a wallet containing $25 out of a 2002 Chevrolet Blazer on the 800 block of Concord Lane between 6 p.m. July 28 and 7:30 a.m. July 29. bull; Thieves stole a smart phone between July 3 and 26 by changing a Barrington woman's password and shipping address online. According to reports, the store sales associate assured the victim that the phone, valued at $251, had not arrived at its California destination and would be rerouted to the woman's Barrington address. bull; A man in his 30s driving a white Chevrolet tossed coffee onto a car on Route 14 at Route 59 around 7:30 a.m. July 26. The offender smiled and drove away. bull; Thieves stole an old 10-foot-by-10-foot steel garage door as a new door was being installed at a business at 214 S. Hager between noon and 3 p.m. July 26. Value was estimated at $2,500.