A 20-year-old man was arrested after allegedly scraping ice from the windshield of a stolen car in Oak Lawn, police said.
Maurice D. Nixon, of Chicago, was taken into custody Jan. 12 and charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, authorities said.
Nixon was arrested in a parking lot in the 9700 block of Kostner Avenue with the 2000 Acura, which had been reported stolen earlier from a another location, police said.
The car had earlier been left idling to warm up when it was stolen, the owner told authorities.
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The owner, searching for her missing vehicle, claimed a man was scraping its windshield just a couple of blocks away from the site of where it had been stolen, police said. The woman then yelled and the man allegedly fled in the vehicle, police said.
Police soon arrested Nixon in the South Side parking lot after the woman reported the incident, Oak Lawn police said.
Nixon was on parole from prison where he had been serving a sentence for three residential burglary convictions, police said.
A warrant also had been issued for Nixon for allegedly violating his parole, police said.
Dennis Sullivan is a freelance reporter for the Daily Southtown.