Flooding Involved In Western Springs Man's Arrest: Cops

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL – A Western Springs man upset over basement flooding earlier this month was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge, police said.

Patch obtained a heavily redacted police report through a public records request.

The police departed from their usual practice and blacked out the nature of the battery that was alleged to have occurred.

In its response, the village cited the state's open records law, which exempts information that is considered an invasion of personal privacy.

Arrested was a 44-year-old man who lives in the 5500 block of Woodland Drive.

The incident was said to have occurred Jan. 8. The man's basement was flooded, which was a common problem that day.

According to the report, the man took a video of his basement being flooded and him kicking the sump pump. He sent it to the family members of a 68-year-old Porter, Indiana, woman, police said.

The woman told police that she and others went to the man's house. As they approached the front door, the man met them outside, police said. The report's next part, which may have included the nature of the battery allegation, was redacted.

On Jan. 18, an officer called the man to say a criminal charge had been filed against him and that he needed to be taken into custody.

The man said he would turn himself in at the police station. He did so less than an hour later. The man was released pending a court date.