Pair Jailed After Elmhurst Store Theft: Cops

ELMHURST, IL – Elmhurst police released their latest blotter Thursday. Here is information from the reports:

Burglary

• Gheorgehe Poenaru and Maria Codreanu, both 23-year-old Baltimore residents, were arrested about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday on charges of retail theft and burglary. They left the parking lot at Kohl's, 303 S. Route 83, in a blue Honda Odyssey minivan. They stole $972 worth of merchandise from Kohl's, police said. A DuPage County judge granted the state's request to keep the pair in jail until their trial.

Theft

• A man stole two pairs of shoes about 3 p.m. Wednesday at Shoe Carnival, 195 S. Route 83. He was last seen walking toward Route 83. He was described as black, 25 to 30, and wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with an unknown light-colored print, a white T-shirt and a black hat.

Drugs

• A person was found in possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia about 3 p.m. Wednesday at The Grove nursing home, 127 W. Diversey Ave. An investigation is pending.

Police report information is provided by local police departments. Charges are not evidence of guilt. They are a record of police actions on a given day, and people charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.