Alleged Tinley Park Garage Crashers Given I-Bonds

TINLEY PARK, IL -- A pair of 20-year-old men arrested after they allegedly crashed their minivan into a Tinley Park garage while pursued by police appeared Friday for a bond hearing at the Bridgeview Courthouse. Arthur Dillon of Chicago, and Mansurmusa Abdullah of Calumet City, appeared before Cook County Judge Peter Felice on charges of burglary and criminal trespassing. Two 14-year-olds also were petitioned into court for burglary and criminal trespass to a vehicle.

According to the charges, Dillon and Abdullah along with two teen accomplices were spotted around 5:20 a.m. Dec. 21 in the Holiday Inn parking lot at the Tinley Park Convention Center. The prosecutor said security and police officers observed the four shaking car door handles , presumably looking for unlocked cars. Dillon, Abdullah and their pals allegedly took a woman’s wallet from an unlocked car.

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Tinley Park police watched the four enter their van and leaving the parking lot. The prosecutor said police followed the four as they circled the 6400 block of west 182nd Street, until they crashed the minivan into a detached garage. The four suspects got out of the damaged minivan and fled in opposite directions, police said. Abdullah and the teens are found near a retention pond. Dillon was taken into police custody near 183rd Street and Ridgeland Avenue.

The prosecutor said Abdullah served a one-year sentence in the Illinois Department of Corrections for an unlawful use of a weapon charge. The assistant public defender told the judge that Dillon is a fruit chopper for a fruit factory.

Abdullah was given a $25,000 I-bond and placed on electronic monitoring with a curfew enabling him to continue working. Abdullah was released on a $50,000 I-bond. Both are due back in court Jan. 10 in Bridgeview.

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