Story posted Thursday, June 11, 2009
Busy Start To June For BG Police
An attempted theft, loud parties, and alcohol-related incidents have kept Buffalo Grove police busy in the first week of June.
At 9 p.m. June 7, a man in a van placed an order at the drive-through of Wendy's Restaurant, 245 McHenry Rd. When the clerk tried to give the order to the driver, a subject on foot came out of the shadows and attempted to grab the food.
The driver fled in the van and the subject on foot ran away. The manager told police this is the third or fourth such attempt in the past month.
Police also broke up two parties the night of June 4. Officers were called about a loud party in the 1200 block of Westchester Road at 9:15 p.m. Police tried to call the homeowner, but got voicemail and left a message. Officers then went to the home and found about 100 youths in the yard and a band. When the band started to play, police informed them that their act was finished.
The homeowner complained that he had no warning, but acquiesced after checking his voicemail. The crowd dispersed without incident, police said.
Officers were also called to a report of noise from a home on River Oaks Circle East at 10:30 p.m. They determined the home was in Lake County; sheriff's officers responded and shut down that party.
Also on June 4 at 8:15 p.m., police responded to a call of suspicious subjects near Parkside Drive and Witney Lane. They took an 18-year-old Long Grove man into custody and charged him with illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor after he allegedly recorded a .230 on a breath test.
Later, officers located an allegedly intoxicated woman in the 800 block of East Aptakisic Road at 1:30 a.m. June 5. Police gave her a ride to her home.
Police released a statement that village ordinances require that any noise made for any reason must be reasonable. "We define reasonable noise as any noise produced which does not cause your neighbor to call the police," explained Pete Lippert, crime prevention specialist. He continued that once on the scene, it is the officer's discretion to determine if the noise is reasonable. "Certainly, a hundred kids in a yard with a live band can be determined as unreasonable, especially when you have not invited your neighbor to the party," Lippert said.
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