Service Vehicle Stolen, Crashed After Kid Rock Concert: Cops

TINLEY PARK, IL — A village of Tinley Park community service vehicle was stolen and crashed near the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre on the night of the Kid Rock concert earlier this month, police said in a report. A Central Illinois man faces a number of charges in connection with the alleged theft and crash just after midnight on Oct. 6. Kid Rock performed a show at the Tinley Park entertainment venue the night of Oct. 5.

Tinley Park police said a pair of their officers saw the service car wrapped around about 200 feet of a chain-linked fence in the parking lot of the Odyssey Sports Bar at 6701 South Road at 12:06 a.m. Since the driver's side door was blocked by the fence and a cable box, police said they had to drag the driver — who they identified as 44-year-old Mike Hummel of Decatur — out the passenger's side door of the car when they arrived.

Hummel was "highly belligerent" and yelling at the officers when they had him on the ground and making the arrest, police said in the report. There was also a strong smell of alcohol coming from him and he had bloodshot and watery eyes, they said.

While he was being arrested, police said Hummel repeatedly asked the officers "what the (expletive) is wrong with you guys?" and later told them he thought he was near a Farm & Fleet store in Decatur rather than Tinley Park, which is a two-and-a-half hour drive to the north.

At the police station, police said Hummel told them he ate a cheeseburger and had a few beers at the Side Street Tavern near 183rd Street in Tinley Park and then had "a lot" of beers while at the Kid Rock concert earlier that night.

Police said Hummel refused to take all sobriety tests offered that night.

The community service officer who was assigned to drive the car that was stolen that night told police he had left the car running on 191st Street blocking Prosperi Drive and with the keys still in the ignition as he and a partner were collecting traffic cones after the concert. When the pair returned to the car, they found it had been stolen.

Two days later, police said a collision business estimated repairs to the vehicle to cost $10,628.01. A felony charge of criminal damage to state supported property could be added to the counts Hummel faces from that night the next time he appears in court, police put in the report.

As of now, Hummel has been charged with unlawful possession of stolen vehicle, aggravated DUI, improper turn, driving too fast for conditions, improper lane usage, revoked DUI and DUI.