Crime & Safety
Dad Left 3-Year-Old Girl in Trash Can and Then Drove to Michigan: Police
Faiz Ikramulla's teary-eyed daughter, Aliya, was found near a forest preserve Tuesday. The Round Lake man has a history of troubles.
A teary-eyed 3-year-old girl found wandering near a Cook County forest preserve this week was left there by her father, who dumped her in a trash can and then drove to Michigan, according to authorities.
Faiz Ikramulla, 35, was arrested Wednesday morning in Michigan on I-94 after someone spotted him standing on the overpass and called 911. He is now in the Van Buren County Jail awaiting extradition back to Illinois, where he’ll face a felony charge of aggravated kidnapping. The Department of Children and Family Services is investigating the father on allegations of neglect. The sheriff’s department issued a $300,000 arrest warrant for him Thursday.
The little girl, crying and waving her hands, was spotted near Palatine Road and Milwaukee Avenue in Prospect Heights Tuesday at about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. People stopped to help her and called police. She only knew her first name, Aliya, according to the Cook County sheriff’s police.
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At about the same time the girl was found, her mother was 23 miles away at the Round Lake police department filing a missing persons report for her daughter and her husband. The child is now in the care of relatives.
The girl was able to tell investigators her father left her in the forest preserve, in a trash can, “where he believed she would not immediately be found,” according to a sheriff’s department statement.
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Ikramulla has had past run-ins with the law. Last year, in May 2014, Ikramulla led police on a high-speed chase in Indiana after striking an officer with his car, reports the Chicago Tribune. He had been pulled over in Portage because a woman reported that a suspicious man was following her in his car. Ikramulla also was seen urinating in someone’s yard, according to the Tribune.
After the high-speed chase was brought to an end, Ikramulla rammed his car into several squad cars. Police were forced to Taser Ikramulla and drag him out of his car.
He was charged with felony battery to a law enforcement officer, resisting police, criminal recklessness and driving while intoxicated.
His attorney told the Tribune that Ikramulla has been in therapy.
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