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Beauty Salon Ransacked; 3 Teens Charged

These items were taken from reports of the Des Plaines Police Department for this past weekend (Mar. 30-Apr. 2). This "police blotter" is published every Wednesday and Friday in the Des Plaines Journal.

BUSINESS

BREAKIN

A beauty salon on East Northwest Highway was entered illegally and partially ransacked, but nothing was apparently stolen, police said. The incident occurred on Mar. 31. A dead bolt on the front door was cut apart and drawers inside the establishment were emptied and the contents strewn on the floor, a report said.

AUTO

BURGLARIZED

The loss was put at about $620 when a '93 Mazda 626 was burglarized while it was parked in the 1800 block of South White Street on Mar. 29, police said. A door lock was forced open, causing $100 damage, and two pair of designer sunglasses and a gym bag full of clothes were stolen, a report said.

GRAFFITI

PAINTED

About $150 in damage was done to a company on South Mt. Prospect Road Mar. 30 when graffiti was spray-painted in blue on a door, picnic table, and an outside wall of a building, police said.

TRUCKS

VANDALIZED

Three trucks parked in a commercial lot on Wille Road had their door latches broken and apparently were entered on Mar. 30, police said. It was unknown if anything was stolen from them. Locks on a fence surrounding the lot were broken to gain entry.

DISTURBING

THE PEACE

A 25-year-old Des Plaines man was arrested and charged with disturbing the peace when he allegedly refused to stop yelling loudly, making obscene remarks, and calling 9-1-1 and verbally harassing emergency operators, police said.

He was identified as Richard Bilik of the 1700 block of White Street.

TEENS

CHARGED

Three Orland Park and Oak Forest-area teenagers were stopped by police for traffic infractions on West Dempster Street on Apr. 1, police said, and then they were charged with minor consumption of alcohol.

A 19-year-old youth, who was reportedly driving the car, was charged with improper lane usage, having no vehicle insurance, and minor consumption of and possession of alcohol, authorities said.

Two 18-year-olds in the car with him were charged with minor consumption of alcohol. Several containers of beer were found in the car when it was stopped, police said.

Also in the car, police said, were a small metal scale, filter screens commonly used to smoke marijuana, a glass pipe, two pellet guns, a revolver, an expandable baton, a rotating blue light, a polices scanner, an air horn, tools, a CB radio, several stereo and CD components, a CD organizer, and a karaoke machine.

In a similar incident a day later at a River Road bowling alley parking g lot, two Chicago 19-year-olds were arrested and charged with underage drinking after alcohol was reportedly found in their vehicle, police said.

CEMENT DEER

STOLEN

A 175-pound mule deer statue was dragged from its position in a display at an East Dempster Street landscape firm and stolen, police said. It was worth $202. It was the second theft from the site in the last few days, a report said.

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