Man Couldn't Resist Peeping In Western Springs Home: Cops

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL – Earlier this month, a Western Springs woman told an officer that she noticed a man looking through her window in the 4000 block of Howard Avenue.

She said a guest at her house confronted the man and asked what he was doing, with the man replying that he was "just taking a piss," police said. It was about 9 p.m. April 14.

The man was identified as Stephen K. Myslicki, 60, of River Forest. Patch reported on his arrest last week, but has since obtained the police report through a public records request.

According to the report, the guest got the license plate number of the man's silver Hyundai as the man drove toward Ogden Avenue. The woman went to the police station, where she reported the incident.

An officer told the woman that the department knew the suspect. Myslicki has a record of peeping tom arrests going back more than 15 years in the suburbs.

The officer called Myslicki and asked why he thought he was contacting him.

Myslicki said he believed the call was because he was caught looking into a window in Western Springs and that he urinated in the driveway beforehand, according to the report.

The officer asked Myslicki to come to the station, with the suspect saying he would do so in about 45 minutes.

In an interview, Myslicki said he stopped to urinate, but could not resist looking into the woman's window, police said. He said he knew what he did was wrong, but he meant no harm, the report said.

The officer issued Myslicki a trespass warning and a local ordinance ticket charging disorderly conduct.

In 2012, Patch reported that River Forest police accused Myslicki, then 49, of peeping in windows. His other such arrests in his hometown were in 2006 and 2009.

Myslicki was also arrested for the same crime in 2013 in North Riverside, according to the Riverside-Brookfield Landmark newspaper. He has been in prison before for felony disorderly conduct, the publication said.