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Wilmette and Kenilworth police blotter for July 5, 2012
Updated: August 6, 2012 6:48AM
The following incidents were listed among the official reports of the Wilmette and Kenilworth Police departments. Readers are reminded that an arrest does not constitute a finding of guilt. Only a court of law can make that determination. Court appearances take place in Cook County 2nd District Circuit Court, Skokie, unless indicated otherwise.
WILMETTE
DUI
Police arrested Nicholas Reinberg, 19, of 2752 Woodbine in Evanston on July 1 and charged him with driving under the influence of alcohol, following a traffic incident that started in Wilmette and ended on the 2700 block of Asbury in Evanston. The initial report didn’t give Reinberg’s court date. Police arrested Andrei Pankov, 30, of 466 Ascot Lane in Streamwood on July 1 and charged him with driving under the influence of alcohol, following a traffic stop that took place at the intersection of Skokie Boulevard and Old Orchard Road. The initial report didn’t give Pankov’s court date. Police arrested Abraham Oonnittan, 22, of 5139 N. Springfield Ave. in Chicago on June 30 and charged him with driving under the influence of alcohol, following a traffic stop that took place on Glenview Road at the Edens Expressway. The report didn’t give Oonnittan’s court date. Amanda M. Briseno, 26, of 5533 W. Higgins Road in Chicago, on June 29, is set to appear July 11 in Cook County Court on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, following an incident that ended on the 3200 block of Lake Avenue. Police were called to that location to check on the wellbeing of a person in a vehicle, and made the arrest after finding Briseno. Michael Rockoff, 64, of 3712 W. LeMoyne in Chicago, will appear in Cook County Court July 12 on a felony charge of driving on a license suspended for DUI convictions, following a July 1 traffic stop on the 2300 block of Thornwood Avenue.
ALCOHOL
Police on June 26 issued local ordinance tickets for drinking in the park while underage, to Robert P. Fischer, 18, of 171 Prairie Avenue, Wilmette, and Shawn R. Post, 18, of 212 Greenleaf, as well as to one 17-year-old Wilmette juvenile, after finding them at Gillson Park shortly after 11:30 p.m. All three were released to their parents; the initial report didn’t indicate if the three were given court dates.
BURGLARY
Police said a patrol officer stopped two 17-year-old teens from Skokie when he saw then on the 800 block of Romona Road shortly before 5 a.m., and found what appeared to be proceeds from a burglary in their backpacks. Police said the two were brought into the police department for further questioning, and they told officers they had entered unlocked vehicles in the area. They also identified the items they had stolen from vehicles. A resident of the 2600 block of Laurel Lane told police June 30 that someone went into his unlocked car overnight at took a mobile phone valued at $200, $5 in coins, a phone charger and a radio adaptor. The resident was later able to identify his items when they were recovered from two Skokie teens who officers had stopped that same night on Romona Road. A resident of the 300 block of Greenleaf Avenue told police June 26 that her home had been burglarized, and wedding bands and other jewelry, valued at a rough total of $6,000 had been taken. She said she woke up around 2 a.m. and noticed her cat in the bedroom, which was unusual because she always shut the bedroom door to keep it out. About 45 minutes later she went downstairs and saw the sliding door halfway opened, and the screen from her back window on the ground outside. However she didn’t call the police at that point because she didn’t see anything missing. As she walked back upstairs around 4 a.m., she spotted a pillow case on the stairs, but still didn’t call police. When she and her husband finally got up, they found their bedroom armoire disturbed and items left on the floor. Later, a neighbor told officers that she had been awakened around 2:30 a.m. that morning by the sound of a car door; when she looked out the window, she saw two people in a van that shortly thereafter drove away. A resident of the 1500 block of Central Avenue told police June 28 that someone got into her garage between June 22 and 27 and took a girls bicycle valued at $350.
A resident of the 900 block of Shabona Lane told police June 29 that someone stole her mother’s bicycle, valued at $200, after she borrowed it to go to the school. She said she had left the bicycle unlocked.A resident of the 300 block of Skokie Court told police June 27 that someone stole his bicycle, valued at $150 when he left it locked to a tree in the parkway of the 300 block of Vista Court.
CRIMINAL DAMAGE
A Public Works employee called police June 28 to tell them that a teenage boy was riding on the back of a village-owned truck while the employee was driving it. He said he saw the boy via the rear-view camera on the truck. When he realized the boy was riding on the back bumper, and apparently “tagging” the truck while doing so, the employee stopped and got out of the truck cab. The boy took off, leaving behind a navy backpack with white stripes. The employee found the boy had indeed defaced the truck with markers. Police checked the boy’s backpack for identifying information and the case is continuing. Someone scrawled graffiti, including a picture of a smoking dragon and a sketch of half a face, on a door at Fifth Third Bank, 1235 Green Bay Road, on June 25.
A resident of the 1900 block of Birchwood Avenue told police June 26 that his daughter had taken the family dog, a one-year-old mixed breed, from the house on June 18, saying she needed to because didn’t think the air conditioning in his home was working. Despite several attempts to convince his daughter to return the dog, she was keeping it in her Northbrook home. She told officers who checked that the dog was really hers because she had taken it in as a stray when she was out of state. The woman’s father presented police with several veterinary bills and proof of vaccination to back up his claim to the dog. Police eventually advised the woman’s father that this was a civil matter.
KENILWORTH
There was no criminal activity reported by police between June 24 and July 1.
