Suspects Sought In Lake Forest Home Burglaries: Police

LAKE FOREST, IL — Police asked the public to report any suspicious cars or people after a pair of break-ins at Lake Forest homes last week. In one instance, security cameras captured images of suspects and their car, police said.

Someone broke into a house somewhere in the Conway Farms subdivision in southwest Lake Forest around 11:15 a.m. Thursday, according to an alert from police. The burglars struck shortly after the homeowner left the house and stole several items of jewelry in a short period of time, police said.

Police released images of a silver Mercedes-Benz from the mid 2000s with a sunroof and a man wearing shorts captured from cameras in the area. According to the alert, the masked man was a passenger in the car.

In the second incident, a break-in set off a burglar alarm around 9:30 p.m. Friday at a home at an unspecified location somewhere near Lake Michigan in east Lake Forest, according to the alert. A small amount of personal items was reported stolen from inside, and there were no images available of any suspects.

At least $1,500 in cash and $40,000 worth of jewelry was reported stolen between the two home burglaries, police said.

There have been three other residential burglaries in Lake Forest in the past two weeks, but they did not involved forced entry, according to Deputy Chief Rob Copeland. No suspect information was available from the other incidents.