Crime & Safety

Coronavirus Threat Made In Elmhurst: Police Report

Customer given a no-trespass notice after police told about dispute.

ELMHURST, IL — An employee at Walgreens, 160 N. Robert Palmer, told police that a suspect threatened during a phone call Wednesday that he had the coronavirus and that he would come into the store and cough on people, according to a report. The suspect said the employee did not understand him and that he did not want to follow the employee's instructions to come into the store because of the coronavirus outbreak, police said.

The suspect was given a no-trespass notice.

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