The following items were taken from police and court reports and news releases. An arrest does not constitute a finding of guilt.
Palos Park
RUSE ATTEMPT: A resident over the age of 60 responded the right way Tuesday when an uninvited visitor wearing a construction-type vest and making an unsolicited home repair offer tried to get him to go to the back of his house, police said. He called 911 and the visitor fled.
The interaction was probably an attempted “ruse” burglary in which strangers — often wearing orange reflective vests and identifying themselves as municipal, utility or service employees — target older residents, police said. One scammer distracts the resident while collaborators enter the home and search for cash and jewelry to steal. In this case, the visitor said he was a roofer who had extra parts and was willing to do some repairs, police said, adding the resident was suspicious that the “roofer’s” SUV had no markings.
In a different case, the individual claimed to work for a seal coating company and needed access to the residents’ home for water, police said.
Country Club Hills
BATTERY AND AGGRAVATED ASSAULT: Antonea Mason, 28, undisclosed address, Dolton, was arrested and accused of aggravated assault, and Chrishawn Johnson, 49, undisclosed address, Markham, and Denise Johnson, 67, undisclosed address, Hazel Crest, were arrested and accused of battery after an April 7 altercation at a women’s clothing store in the 4100 block of 167th Street, police said.
Evergreen Park
ILLEGAL GUN: Devontae C. Johnson, 18, Chicago, was arrested and accused of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon April 15 outside a department store in the 2500 block of 95th Street after officers responding to a report of an armed subject recovered a 9 mm handgun with an extended magazine from him, police said.
Frankfort
KNIFE ASSAULT: A New Lenox woman was booked into the Will County Adult Detention Facility April 21 on a March 30 warrant charging her with aggravated assault to a peace officer, criminally damaging property and resisting arrest, according to Will County sheriff and circuit court records online. The charges against Alissa L. Rizos, 32, 1800 Heatherway Lane, stem from a March 7 two-vehicle crash investigation at LaGrange Road and Old Frankfort Way, police said. Rizos, armed with a knife, “was verbally combative,” stabbed at the air and ordered officers “to get away from her,” police said. Rizos struggled with officers after she was disarmed and she was subsequently transported to a local medical facility for evaluation, police said.
Homer Glen
DUI CRASH: Melissa Irving, 30, 13800 block of Big Run Lane, Homer Glen, is charged with drunken driving, driving without a license, failing to reduce speed to avoid a collision and improper lane use stemming from a March 24 crash at 159th Street and Leach Drive, according to Will County sheriff’s police and circuit court records on line.
Lockport
STOLEN CAR: Alicia Johnson-Medrano, 24, Joliet, is scheduled to return to Will County Circuit Court Monday on charges of illegally possessing a stolen vehicle and theft of property with a value greater than $10,000, according court records online. Johnson-Medrano was taken into custody during a March 25 stop at Division and Read streets for driving on a revoked license, sheriff’s police said.
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Mokena
AGGRAVATED BATTERY: Garrett P. Peterson, 31, 20000 block of Scott Street, Mokena, was arrested April 22 and accused of aggravated battery to a peace officer, drunken driving with a blood-alcohol concentration above the legal limit, fleeing, driving on a suspended license, failure to have an interlock ignition device operating and several traffic citations following a 12-block traffic stop that began at Wolf Road and Boyer Court, continued to the 10700 block of Therese Lane — where he drove his pickup truck into a roadside mailbox — and ended in the 19700 block of Schoolhouse Road, police said.
Palos Hills
AGGRAVATED BATTERY: Djahri Williams, 29, of Calumet City, was arrested and accused of aggravated battery to a peace officer and obstructing a peace officer during an April 13 fight investigation in the 8500 block of 103rd Terrace, police said.
ROAD RAGE: Momen A. Hamdan, 28, of Justice, was arrested and accused of battery during an April 15 traffic-related altercation in the 10500 block of Harlem Avenue, police said.
Park Forest
ILLEGAL GUNS: The Will County gang suppression unit arrested three men on gun and drug charges Friday following a warrant search of a home in unincorporated Park Forest that turned up four .223 rifles — two which had been reported stolen, two Romanian mini AK 47s, a .40 caliber handgun with a fully automatic switch, seven other handguns and a noise suppressor for a rifle, police said.
Investigators also recovered 38 ounces of marijuana, 18 ecstasy pills, black-market prescription medications, “large amounts” of a codeine-based cough syrup, several pills containing the semi-synthetic narcotic oxycodone and “a large amount of currency,” sheriff’s police said.
Kesyon Q. Heard, 29, Chicago, is charged with three counts of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon and three counts of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon/on person, according to court records online. He is being held without bond in the Will County Adult Detention Facility on outstanding Park Forest and Pennsylvania warrants, according to sheriff’s records online. Ice C. Heard, 32, first block of Apple Lane, Park Forest, is charged with aggravated unlawful use of a firearm/on person, armed violence, being a felon illegally possessing a firearm and illegally possessing a controlled substance with intent to deliver, according to Will County Circuit court records online. He is being held without bond on outstanding McLean County and Chicago warrants, according to sheriff’s records online. Devonte Robinson, 24, of the 15300 block of Blackstone Avenue, Dolton, is charged with unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, according to Will County Circuit court records online. He is being held without bond on an IL Department of Corrections parole violation, according to sheriff’s records online. The search and arrests were based on “an extensive narcotics trafficking investigation,” police said. All three are scheduled to return to Will County circuit court May 16, according to court records online.
RESISTING ARREST: Jose L. Santoyo, 40, 300 block of Meota Street, Park Forest, was arrested and accused of domestic battery and four counts of resisting arrest April 17 in that block after grappling with officers, police said. Santoyo also violated his parole on a five-year prison sentence from a Cook County conviction for aggravated battery/strangulation, police said.
FORGERY: David M. Lloyd, 30, 1200 block of Anvil Court, University Park, was booked into the Will County Adult Detention Facility Saturday April 15 evening on a warrant charging one count of forgery and one count of obstructing justice, according to sheriff’s records online. The felony charge stems from a 2020 traffic ticket situation in which Lloyd identified himself as another person and signed that individual’s name on the bond form, police said.
STRANGULATION: Jaylynn A. Williams, 44, St. Paul, Minnesota, is charged with aggravated battery stemming from an April 17 incident in the 200 block of Nauvoo Street in which he choked a person “for approximately one minute” during a struggle, police said.
Steger
ILLEGAL GUN: A Monee man accused of having a 9 mm handgun with a bullet in the chamber and 30 bullets in the extended magazine has been charged with two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, according to Will County sheriff’s police and circuit court records online. Deputies discovered the weapon during an April 20 traffic stop at Steger and Kings roads and took Roberto J. Velasquez, 21, 25600 Jonquil Lane, into custody after determining he had no firearm owner’s identification card or concealed carry license, police said.
CAR RECOVERED: A 2014 Ford Mustang reported stolen March 21 from the 23000 block of Ashland Avenue, unincorporated Crete, turned up in Steger, Will County sheriff’s police said. “The vehicle had been crashed, with a witness stating they observed a single person running from the scene,” sheriff’s police said.