Northwest suburban police reports

Arlington Heightsbull; Burglars stole a GPS valued at $300 out of an unlocked 2007 Honda Odyssey in a driveway on the 600 block of South Belmont between 10 p.m. Aug. 22 and 6 a.m. Aug. 23.bull; Burglars stole a GPS unit, cell phone charger and cash out of an unlocked 2000 Honda Odyssey in a driveway on the 600 block of South Pine between 5 p.m. Aug. 22 and 8 a.m. Aug. 23. Value was estimated at $285.bull; Vandals spray painted graffiti with black paint on a brick garage at a house on the 300 block of South Stratford between noon Aug. 18 and 3 p.m. Aug. 24.bull; Vandals broke an antenna on a 2002 Ford on the 400 block of North Arlington Heights Road, between 3 and 5:15 p.m. Aug. 24. Damage was estimated at $15.bull; Laura A. Angelos, 33, of the 1600 block of Denise, Palatine, was arrested around 10 a.m. Aug. 24 at Burlington Coat Factory, 30 W. Rand Road, and charged with retail theft. She's accused of hiding merchandise valued at $493 in her purse and in her 2-year-old daughter's stroller. Her court date is Sept. 17.bull; Anna D. Zueva, 19, of the 100 block of Crescent Knoll, Libertyville, was arrested around 10:20 p.m. Aug. 24 in an apartment lot on the 4200 block of North Bloomington and charged with felony possession of a controlled substance after officers were called to the parking lot because Zueva was seen opening the doors of unlocked cars. Officers found 15 heroin capsules in her car. She was not charged with trespass to a motor vehicle because the victims did not wish to press charges. Her court date is Sept. 22.bull; Thieves stole a boys red and white 20-inch bike and a boys orange 20-inch bike in a driveway on the 1300 block of Best Drive between 8:15 and 10:30 p.m. Aug. 28. Value was estimated at $400.bull; Thieves stole a 2-foot diameter metal table with terra cotta top, a dog statue, cat statue, candle holder and planter with flowers off a patio on the 1500 block of North Windsor Drive between 12:01 a.m. Aug. 27 and 5 p.m. Aug. 28. Value was estimated at $245.bull; Vandals scratched every surface on a 2000 Ford Crown Victoria, a privately owned car designed as a police inceptor with law enforcement-style plates, in a driveway on the 2100 block of North Fernandez between 1 and 7 a.m. Aug. 26. Vandals punctured four tires and scratched "pigs" and "cop" on the car.bull; Vandals slashed the rear passenger's-side tire on a 2002 Ford Explorer in an apartment lot on the 4100 block of Bloomington Avenue between 6 p.m. Aug. 25 and 6 a.m. Aug. 26. Damage was estimated at $125.bull; Burglars broke into a 2003 Jeep Liberty in an apartment lot on the 4100 block of Bloomington Avenue between 9:30 p.m. Aug. 26 and 6 a.m. Aug. 27 and stole an MP3 player. Loss was estimated at $850.bull; Burglars stole a handicap placard out of a 2002 Hyundai Elantra at 1250 W. Central Road, between 10 a.m. Aug. 24 and 1 p.m. Aug. 26.bull; Vandals smashed a driver's-side window on a 1993 Ford Taurus at 2121 Northwest Hwy., between 5 a.m. and 6:45 p.m. Aug. 27. Damage was estimated at $200.bull; Burglars stole a GPS unit and loose change out of an unlocked 1997 Mercury Mountaineer in a driveway on the 700 block of North Dunton Avenue between 10 p.m. Aug. 25 and 9 a.m. Aug. 26. Value was estimated at $160. Burglars rifled through an unlocked 2002 Mercury Sable in the same driveway but nothing appeared to be missing.bull; Burglars ransacked an unlocked 1999 Ford Contour in a driveway on the 1900 block of East Lillian Lane between 9 and 10 p.m. Aug. 27, scattered clothes out of a gym bag on the ground, stole the bag and a GPS valued at $250.bull; Burglars ransacked a 2005 Toyota Highlander and 1996 Nissan Maxima, both unlocked and in the same driveway, on the 1800 block of East Lillian Lane between 10:24 p.m. Aug. 27 and 10:24 p.m. Aug. 28 and scattered items out of the vehicles on the ground. Nothing appeared to be missing, but the offenders put six cigarette burn marks on the driver's seat and one on the headrest.bull; Burglars stole a black duffel bag with sweaters out of a 2005 Audi S4 in a condominium lot on the 100 block of South Vail Avenue between 11 p.m. Aug. 28 and 4:20 a.m. Aug. 29.bull; Two men attempted to burglarize an unlocked 2001 Ford Explorer in an apartment lot on the 600 block of West Rand Road around 1:20 a.m. Aug. 27. The female victim was sitting in her boyfriend's car when they saw the two offenders ride into the parking lot on bicycles. One offender stood lookout while the second man tried to open unlocked cars. The victim and her friend saw the man get into her SUV. The boyfriend confronted the burglar and grabbed him. The first offender took off on his bike. The offender in the SUV hit the boyfriend on the arm, possibly with a metal tool used to break car windows. The boyfriend let go and the offender ran from the vehicle and fled on his bicycle.Bartlettbull; A vandal hurled a rock that damaged the business sign at Superwash, 335 S. Prospect, Aug. 26. Damage was estimated at $200.bull; Vandals wrote graffiti around the Metra depot, 124 E. Railroad Ave., Aug. 26. Damage was estimated at $50.bull; Therese I. Green, of the 1400 block of Saddleridge, Bartlett, was arrested around 9 p.m. Aug. 25 on the 1400 block of Saddleridge and charged with local ordinance disorderly conduct. Her court date is Oct. 4.Barringtonbull; A teenage girl, approximately 17 years old, stole four dresses valued at $475 out of NV Clothing, 202 S. Cook St., around 1:30 p.m. Aug. 29 but returned them when confronted by an employee who followed her and a male companion into the parking lot. bull; Trevor G. Taplett, 19, of the 23500 block of Juniper Court, Barrington, Dustin J. Diamond, 19, of the 100 block of East Hillside Road, Barrington, David M. Swarbrick, 19, of the 900 block of Lakewood Drive, Barrington, Robert S. Hajek, 19, of the 1800 block of Burr Ridge Drive, Hoffman Estates, and Michael J. Plamann, 19, of the 600 block of East Main Street, Barrington, were arrested around 11:55 p.m. Aug. 26 at Plamann's home and charged with consumption of alcohol by a minor. Swarbrick also was charged with possession of marijuana. Their court date is Sept. 9. bull; Thieves stole a wallet containing $600 and several credit cards out of an employee's purse at Expert Cleaners, 530 N. Hough St., around 2:30 p.m. Aug. 23. One offender distracted the employee, asking her to mark clothing for alterations. The second offender took the wallet. They drove away in a white vehicle and used the credit cards at several stores. The victim did not notice the theft until the next morning.bull; Vandals broke a garage door lock at Fox Point pool house, 105 Cold Spring Road, Aug. 23, stole cans of red and black spray paint and sprayed graffiti on a parking block near the garage door, on the roadway and a street sign near the intersection of Surrey Lane and Lake Shore Drive.Des Plainesbull; Burglars pried the front door at a house on the 0-100 block of West Lancaster Lane between noon Aug. 16 and 2 p.m. Aug. 24, ransacked the bedrooms and stole gold jewelry valued at $5,000. bull; Kristin L. Beck, 41, of the 400 block of Oak Street, Des Plaines, was arrested around 8 p.m. Aug. 24 on the 300 block of Lee Street and charged with battery. She's accused of approaching a 46-year-old woman sitting on the ground with friends, punching the woman in the face and walking off. An officer found her two blocks away. bull; Vandals poured an unknown dark substance on the hood of a red 2002 Ford ZX2 on the 1700 block of East Lunt Avenue between 8 p.m. Aug. 20 and 8 a.m. Aug. 21. Damage was estimated at $200.bull; Thieves stole 100 feet of braided steel cable used as a trellis on a fence at a house on the 1400 block of Prairie Avenue between 7:10 a.m. Aug. 24 and 11 a.m. Aug. 25. Value was estimated at $100.bull; Thieves stole four hanging yard lamps, a flowered door mat, two potted plants and a baby rocking chair out of the front yard at a house on the 200 block of Drake Lane between 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Aug. 25. Value was estimated at $245.bull; Kazimier A. Zwolinski, 22, of the 900 block of North Wesley Drive, Park Ridge, was arrested around 12:50 a.m. Aug. 26 after a traffic stop on the 1700 block of Campbell Avenue and charged with a traffic violation and city ordinances possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. His court date is Oct. 7.Hanover Parkbull; Vandals wrote graffiti behind Party City, 7470 Barrington Road, around 4 a.m. Aug. 26.bull; Burglars forced open a rear door at a home on the 8100 block of Applewood around 8:50 p.m. Aug. 26 and stole undisclosed items.bull; Vandals punctured the brake lines on two vehicles in a lot on the 6600 block of Scott overnight Aug. 25-26. bull; Gabriel Vargas, 26, of the 1000 block of Prescott, Roselle, was arrested Aug. 26 on the 1500 block of Sacramento and charged with battery.bull; Jeffrey B. Carey, 40, of the 5800 block of Beverly, Hanover Park, was arrested at his home Aug. 26 and charged with attempted disorderly conduct.bull; Burglars stole a GPS unit out of an unlocked car on the 1200 block of Arlington around 3:40 p.m. Aug. 25.bull; John F. Covington, 45, last known address on the 1100 block of Todd Farm Road, Elgin, was arrested around 9:40 p.m. Aug. 25 on the 1900 block of Lake Street and charged with possession of a controlled substance.bull; Alejandro Guarcas, 25, of the 400 block of Sherman, Elgin, was arrested around 4:20 a.m. Aug. 25 on the 1100 block of Lake Street and charged with battery.bull; Vandals wrote gang graffiti on road barricades at Longmeadow and Westchester, on a rear wooden fence on the 6800 block of Highland, and on the water tank facing Walnut on the 6800 block of Longmeadow Aug. 24.bull; Burglars stole a cell phone out of a vehicle on the 7600 block of Barrington Road around 3:45 p.m. Aug. 24.bull; Dorota Perszko, 40, of the 1500 block of Revere Circle, Schaumburg, was arrested around 9:40 p.m. Aug. 23 in a store at 7435 Barrington Road and charged with retail theft.Hoffman Estatesbull; Bernard Adeneken, 19, of the 200 block of Maricopa Lane, Hoffman Estates, was arrested around 6 p.m. Aug. 24 on the 1900 block off Chelmsford Place and charged with theft after he took a cell phone. His court date is Oct. 4.bull; Burglars stole an MP3 player, three 24-port gigabyte switches, firewall, computer keyboard and mouse set out of an unlocked 2008 Scion on the 1000 block of Atlantic Avenue between 4:30 p.m. Aug. 23 and 7:30 a.m. Aug. 24.bull; Marek Mikolajezyk, 24, of the 2300 block of Birdsong, Schaumburg, was arrested around 4:30 p.m. Aug. 25 outside an apartment building on the 2300 block of Birdsong and charged with felony burglary to motor vehicle. He broke into a 2006 Ford Explorer on the 2100 block of West Golf Road and stole a GPS unit. His court date is Sept. 16.bull; Thieves stole a new laptop computer off a cart in the emergency room area at St. Alexius Medical Center on the 1500 block of North Barrington Road between 6 p.m. Aug. 24 and 8 a.m. Aug. 26. The hospital staff was installing over 1,000 new computers and discovered the empty computer box. Value was estimated at $1,349.bull; Burglars pulled the in-dash stereo off the dashboard in a 2000 Chevrolet Suburban at an apartment lot on the 2100 block of Hassell Road around 8:30 p.m. Aug. 27 but left without it when the car alarm sounded. bull; Thieves stole a men's white and purple bike and a men's purple bicycle parked outside a store at 1000 N. Roselle Road around 8:05 p.m. Aug. 27. Value was estimated at $550.bull; Vandals sprayed red paint on the rear license plate and driver's-side wheel covers on a 1996 Toyota Avalon on the 1300 block of Meyer Road between 10:30 p.m. Aug. 27 and 7:30 a.m. Aug. 28. bull; Burglars stole a 52-inch rear projection TV out of the family room at a home on the 2000 block of Carleton Road between 1 p.m. Aug 28 and 9 a.m. Aug. 29. Value was estimated at $700.Mount Prospectbull; Burglars stole money and a cell phone out of an unlocked 1987 Chevrolet Caprice while the male victim was attending a baseball game on the 1500 block of West Central Road, between 8 and 10:30 p.m. Aug. 16. Value was estimated at $205.bull; A man in his 20s stole a digital camera and camera bag out of an unlocked 2009 Nissan Maxima on the 600 block See-Gwun Avenue, around 11:15 a.m. Aug. 17. The male victim saw the offender standing next to the car. The victim called to the man, who looked at the victim and then walked away with the camera. Value was estimated at $400.bull; Vandals scratched a driver's-side door on a 2006 Scion XB in an apartment lot on the 0-100 block of North Albert Street between 10:30 p.m. Aug. 15 and 1:15 p.m. Aug. 16. Damage was estimated at $100.bull; Vandals broke the front driver's-side wheel lock cover on a 1991 Oldsmobile '88 at a house on the 1700 block of Dennis Drive between Aug. 16-23. Damage was estimated at $50.bull; Adam Czekaj, 47, of the 600 block of Larkdale Lane, Mount Prospect, was arrested around 7:05 p.m. Aug. 26 at Menards, 740 E. Rand Road, and charged with local ordinance retail theft. He's accused of removing a drill bit from its packaging, hiding it in his pocket, paying for other items but leaving without paying for the drill bit valued at $34. bull; Two teenage boys stole a diaper bag valued at $200 off a package delivered around 4:45 p.m. Aug. 30 at a house on the 1800 block of South Lee Street. A neighbor saw them take the bag and quickly walk away.bull; Burglars pried the side door at four detached garages on the 1700 block of Illinois Street and 1700 block of Elm Street between 10 p.m. Aug. 29 and 6:30 a.m. Aug. 30. They stole power tools valued at $2,185 out of one garage; nothing appeared to be missing from the other three.bull; Burglars stole a laptop computer and digital camera out of an unlocked garage on the 1800 block of South Webster Lane between 9 p.m. Aug. 29 and 6 a.m. Aug. 30. Value was estimated at $750.bull; Vandals shot BB-gun pellets into four double-pane windows on the south side of the indoor suspended track at the park district's Prairie Lakes Fitness Center, 515 Thacker St., between Aug. 27-30. Damage was estimated at $1,600.Schaumburgbull; Vandals sprayed black paint graffiti on a slide and a walkway at Salk Park on the 300 block of North Salem Drive on an unknown date but reported Aug. 25.bull; Janelle P. Modelo, 18, of the 6100 block of Mozart, Chicago, was arrested around 6:05 p.m. Aug. 27 at Marshalls, 1488 E. Golf Road, and charged with retail theft after she took clothes, cologne and sunglasses. Her court date is Sept. 23.bull; Dora M. Saberbein, 62, of the 300 block of North Salem Drive, Schaumburg, was arrested around 5:55 p.m. Aug. 27 at Nordstrom in Woodfield Shopping Center and charged with retail theft after she hid a dress valued at $248 in the sleeve of her jacket and a pair of earrings valued at $195 inside her shirt. She ran from the store but was followed by an employee and stopped by a mall security agent. Her court date is Sept. 30.bull; Thieves stole a designer purse with a cell phone, bank card, checkbook, keys, a silver locket and money from a customer at Macy's in Woodfield Shopping Center around 4:30 p.m. Aug. 26. She hung the purse on a sales rack while trying on a jacket and discovered the purse missing when she turned back. Value was estimated at $2,220.bull; Thieves stole two gold-colored concrete lion statues out of the front yard at a home on the 1000 block of Weathersfield Way between 10:30 p.m. Aug. 26 and 7 a.m. Aug. 27. Value was estimated at $500.bull; Burglars broke into a 2001 Toyota Camry in a business lot at 20 N. Martingale Road between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Aug. 27 and stole a radar detector valued at $250.bull; Thieves stole a purse valued at $508 out of a women's restroom stall at JCPenney in Woodfield Shopping Center around 6 p.m. Aug. 29. The victim hung it on a door hook and forgot to take it when she left the restroom.Wheelingbull; Carlos Figueroa-Jimenez, 27, last known address on the 19300 block of Collins Avenue, Sunny Isles, Fla., was arrested Aug. 25 and charged with felony theft (lottery scam). He's accused of having approached an elderly Buffalo Grove resident in a grocery store on the 500 block of West Dundee Road around 1:30 p.m. Aug. 6 and tricking the victim into giving him $8,000 in cash and $7,000 in jewelry. He told the victim he had a winning lottery ticket but could not cash it because he was not a citizen. After the victim gave him the jewelry and cash, he pretended to be sick. The victim went back into the store to get medicine for him, and Figueroa-Jimenez fled with the money and jewelry. His court date is Sept. 8.bull; Burglars stole money, a GPS unit and a radar detector out of an unlocked 2006 Toyota Tundra on the 1600 block of Queens Court between 10:10 and 10:24 p.m. Aug. 23. Value was estimated at $750.bull; Einat M. Kreimont, 23, of the 0-100 block of Southfield Drive, Vernon Hills, was arrested around 8:30 p.m. Aug. 24 on the 500 block of Pleasant Run Drive and charged with local ordinance possession of marijuana. Her court date is Sept. 10.bull; Burglars broke into a 2000 Mercury Villager on the 1700 block of Stonehedge Court between 9 p.m. Aug. 23 and 8:33 a.m. Aug. 24 and stole a GPS unit. Loss was estimated at $600.bull; Burglars broke into a 2007 Hyundai Sonata in a restaurant lot at 550 S. Milwaukee Ave. between 12:07 and 12:50 p.m. Aug. 24 and stole a laptop computer with case, mouse and cable. Loss was estimated at $2,425.bull; Burglars stole nine golf clubs and a green golf bag out of a 2006 Chrysler PT Cruiser on the 400 block of West Strong Avenue between 11 p.m. Aug. 24 and 6 a.m. Aug. 25. Value was estimated at $500.bull; Craig R. Weber, 18, of the 0-100 block of Patricia Lane, Prospect Heights, was arrested around 10:25 p.m. Aug. 21 on the 300 block of Scott and charged with local ordinance possession of marijuana. His court date is Sept. 10.bull; Thieves stole $200, a Mexican ID and three credit cards after the male victim left them wrapped in a rubber band near a goalie net while he played soccer on the 200 block of South Wolf Road, around 5:30 p.m. Aug. 21. The items may have been taken after he left the field because he forgot to pick them up and discovered them missing when he returned at 7:30 p.m.