'Knife' Actually An Antenna; Arrests Over Liquor, Lobster Tails And Crab Legs: Wilmette Crime

WILMETTE, IL — The following information comes from the Wilmette Police Department. An arrest is not an indication of guilt, and criminal charges are often dropped or reduced. Everyone is presumed innocent until their guilt is established by a court of law.

ARRESTS

Two men were arrested around 11:30 p.m. on May 28 after an employee of the Jewel in the 400 block of Green Bay Road called 9-1-1 to report a retail theft in progress.

Christopher Silk, of the 6800 block of North Sheridan in Chicago, filled up a grocery cart with $244 in items and left without paying, police said. He was charged and released on bond.

Chicago police records show he was arrested for shoplifting again on May 30 at a Jewel-Osco on the 1700 block of West Howard Street.

Mansfield Wallace, 45, of Evanston, put four bottles of vodka and six individually wrapped lobster tails (valued at $110) under his coat and left the store without paying, police said. He was charged and turned over to Niles PD where he had an arrest warrant for theft.

Niles Police said he had attempted to return two packages of crab legs he had not purchased (valued at $91.47) to the Fresh Farms grocery store in the 5700 block of West Touhy Avenue at 2:48 a.m. on May 29. In that incident, he fled from the store and was later identified by police and the caller.

WARRANT ARREST (MAN WITH A "KNIFE")

Timothy Lucas, 59, of the first block of West Chicago Avenue in Chicago, was arrested June 1 at 11:33 a.m. after police were called to the 600 block of Central Avenue. Initial reports said a man was carrying a knife. When cops arrived they found Lucas holding part of a collapsible car antenna. Wilmette police checked his identity and found that he had a warrant for failure to appear from DuPage County. He was taken into custody, transported to the station and held overnight because he was unable to post bond.

According to the DuPage County sheriff's office, he is awaiting trial on charges of illegal possesion of ammunition, drug paraphernalia, a hypodermic syringe as well as obstructing identification. Those charges date from 2012.

RETAIL THEFT (JUVENILE)

A juvenile from Chicago was arrested and cited with retail theft on May 27 at 6:10 p.m. after the store manager of a Starbucks in the 700 block of Green Bay Road called 9-1-1 to report that one of the two teens who had been selling candy outside the store had come into the coffee shop and stole about $20 in cash from a tip jar before fleeing on foot. Police found the teen and recovered $29.03 before releasing the juvenile to a parent.

FAKE ID (CITATION)

A 20-year-old Northbrook woman, of the 3800 block of Brittany Road, came to pick up a lost purse at the police station at 9:42 p.m. on June 4. Police had found the purse in the Elmwood dunes and discovered it contained a fake Ohio driver's license. The woman was given a local ordinance citation for possessing a fake ID.

THEFT (OF LOCKED BIKE)

Someone reportedly cut a cable lock and stole a $4,500 bicycle which had been locked to a rack east of a bus stop on the north side of the 1200 block of Central between 1:30 p.m. and 2:26 p.m. on May 27.

THEFT (OF DOWNSPOUT)

A resident of the 700 block of Sheridan Place called 9-1-1 around 8:50 a.m. on May 27 to report a man walking down her driveway from the back yard carrying a 20 foot section of copper downspout. The downspout had yet to be installed and was valued at $1000. The man, described to police as 30-40 years old and Hispanic, wearing a black and red flannel shirt with blue jeans.

CRIMINAL DAMAGE (WITH CANDLE WAX)

Two people reported someone had dripped hot candle wax on their cars in the 1600 block of Sheridan Road around 2:30 p.m. on May 27.

CAR THEFTS/BURGLARIES

A series of car burglaries and a stolen car was reported on the night of May 31 and morning of June 1.

The only stolen car was taken from a driveway in the 2800 block of Orchard Lane sometime between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. Another car in the same driveway was reported burglarized. Someone also stole an iPod and sunglasses from car in the 2700 block of Orchard Lane between 10 p.m. May 31 and 3:30 a.m. on June 1. The reported loss was $450.

There were a dozen other burglaries to vehicles located overnight: two more in the 2800 block of Orchard Lane, three on the 3000 block of Washington Avenue, two on the 600 block of Pine street and one on the 2700 block of Orchard Lane.

THEFT (OF SIGNS)

Someone stole the streets signs for Canterbury Court and Sheridan Road around 1:10 p.m. on May 31.

CRIMINAL DAMAGE (TO SHED)

Between 5 p.m. on May 31 and 2 p.m. on June 1, someone reportedly damaged a six foot by 12 foot metal vent on a storage shed located near the garden area of Central School.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT (MASTURBATER)

At 6:29 a.m. on June 2, police received a call that a man had been seen masturbating in an alley behind a house off of 9th Street near Linden. No one was found by police.

RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY (ATTEMPTED)

Shortly before 5 p.m. on June 2, someone reportedly tried to pry open a basement window of a home on the 1900 block of Wilmette Avenue.

IDENTITY THEFT

Someone made an unauthorized $4,112.15 charge on the Nordstrom credit card of a resident in the 1000 block of Mohawk Road. The charge was made at a Nordstrom in Palo Alto, California. The victim reported the charge around 4:30 on June 1.

CRIMINAL DAMAGE

A caller on the 400 block of Skokie Court reported that between 11 p.m. on June 2 and 4 p.m. on June 3 someone damaged the rear passenger window of his mother's vehicle.

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