Snatching Orange Juice And Shouting, Customer Assumes 'Fighting Stance': Wilmette Crime Reports

WILMETTE, IL — The following information comes from the Wilmette Police Department as a record of incidents reported to the police and those recently arrested. Readers are reminded that an arrest is not an indication of guilt and criminal charges are often dropped or reduced. Everyone is innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt.

INCIDENTS

IDENTITY THEFT

On Sept. 17, residents in the 300 block of Brookside Drive reported they have been the victim of a past identity theft and had been advised someone had tried to open an unauthorized line of credit using one of their identities.

THEFT

On Sept. 16 at 1:23 p.m. police responded to a liquor store in the 200 block of Green Bay Road for a report of a retail theft and disorderly conduct. Police were told a man walked up to the counter, drank a bottle of orange juice and began to yell after being asked to pay for the juice. The man got into a fighting stance, but left and began walking south on Green Bay Road after a store employee called police. He was not located by police.

RETAIL THEFT (ATTEMPT)

On Sept. 14 at 2:10 p.m., a man tried to leave a Walgreens in the 3200 block of Lake Avenue with a bag of merchandise without paying. He dropped the bag when he was confronted by store employees. The suspect, described as a tall white man with shorter blond hair, fled the store and got into a black Chevy Equinox.

THEFT

Police were told someone stole jewelry from inside the dresser of a 90-year-old resident of an assisted living facility in the 2800 block of Old Glenview Road between May 1 and Sept. 1.

CRIMINAL DAMAGE

On Sept. 12 at 9:20 a.m., resident in the 1200 block of Greenwood Avenue reported someone spray painted a cross on an electrical control box, street light and sidewalk.

FRAUD

On Sept. 12 at 2:40 p.m., police were told a man tried to pay for various pieces of jewelry at a store in the 1100 block of Central Avenue with a fraudulent $4,800 check written from a fake account. The man was gone by the time police arrived.

FRAUD

On Sept. 11, a customer at the Chase Bank in the 1200 block of Central Avenue reported that $6,000 had gone missing from her parents' account.

IDENTITY THEFT

Sometime between Aug. 30 and Sept. 2, someone used the personal identity of a resident in the 1000 block of New Trier Court to open up a PayPal account and then apparently made two fraudulent purchases in Lithuania, police were told.

CRIMINAL DAMAGE

An employee of the Canal Shores Golf Club told police that someone appeared to have ridden over the green on the seventh hole during the overnight hours of Sept. 9-10, causing an estimated $200 in damage.

RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY

A resident of the 1000 block of New Trier Court reported that someone burglarized his home between 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 8. One or more intruders pried open the rear window of the residence after removing a screen. They stole cash and jewelry using a pillow case before appearing to have exited out of the same window, police said.

THEFT

Someone broke a lock and stole a bike that was locked to a tree in the rear of a business in the 100 block of Green Bay Road on Sept. 8 between 4:30 p.m. and 10:45 p.m., police were told.

ARRESTS

Bruce J. Soboroff, 65, of the 1000 block of Grove Street in Evanston, was arrested on Sept. 16 at 11:54 p.m. near the intersection of Illinois Road and Thornwood Avenue and charged with driving under the influence after he was pulled over for a minor traffic violation. Police said he submitted to field sobriety tests and showed signs of impairment before being taken into custody. Police reportedly sampled his breath and found his blood alcohol content to be 0.09, above the legal limit of 0.08.

Gerardo G. Guifarro-Vargas, 27, of the 1200 block of North Avenue in Waukegan, was arrested Sept. 10 at 8:51 p.m. in the parking lot at Centennial Park, 2300 Old Glenview Rd., and charged with domestic battery. Police said he and his wife, who work as the cleaning crew at the park, reportedly got into an argument in connection with the reactivation of an old Facebook page. He then "forcibly removed her from the vehicle and threw her to the ground" in the parking lot and fled the scene. Responding officers found the woman with visible injuries, but she declined medical attention. Police said they contacted Guifarro-Vargas, who agreed to return to the scene, where he was taken into custody.

» Last week's Wilmette Police Blotter: 3 Home Burglaries, 'No Pants' Man On Beach, Aug. 29 - Sept. 8

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