Cops: Streamwood home robbed of church collections

A Streamwood woman’s home was robbed of hundreds of dollars in church collections, as well as a diamond ring and coin collection, sometime between Tuesday evening and Wednesday, police said.

The woman, who lives on the 0-99 block of East Streamwood Boulevard, reported the goods missing Wednesday. The woman told police that a man had come to her door posing as a village worker Tuesday afternoon.

She said a Hispanic man told her there was a light out on a telephone pole behind her residence that was a fire hazard and walked her back to examine it along with the plot’s property lines, police said. She said while the man was speaking to her in English, he was on a two-way radio speaking Spanish to someone.

The house could not be seen from the location he walked the resident to.

The next day, the woman noticed $700 in collections from the Bartlett Baptist Church, a diamond ring worth $3,000 to $4,000 and a coin collection missing from a dresser drawer.

A neighbor reported seeing a white utility truck parked in front of the residence while the man was there, police said. The man who posed as a village worker was described as five-feet tall with short, black hair wearing a red plaid shirt, blue jeans and white gym shoes and holding a long narrow two-way radio, according to reports.