Wilmette Crime: Drunk Driver Snacks In Jewel Lot, Car Burgled At Rec. Center

WILMETTE, IL — The following information comes from the Wilmette Police Department as a record of police activity. It contains reports of incidents as received by police. Criminal charges represent merely accusations by the state and are often dropped or reduced. Everyone is presumed innocent until and unless their guilt is established in court.

CAR BURGLARY

Police responded to a call of a car burglary at the Wilmette Rec. Center at 3000 Glenview on the evening of April 21. When they arrived, an Evanston resident informed them that sometime between 5 pm. and 6:45 p.m. someone had entered her unlocked vehicle and taken a purse, an Advocate work bag and an Advocate fleece jacket from the front passenger seat.

DUI ARRESTS

Margaret M. Wenzel, 28, of the 1700 block of Central Avenue, in Evanston, was arrested shortly before midnight on April 23 after police were called for a well-being check in the Jewel Parking lot in the 400 block of Green Bay Road. Police said they found Wenzel's car parked in the lot and blocking one of the aisles. She was sitting and eating in the drivers seat, police said. She failed field sobriety tests, was arrested, processed and released.

Philip Arnold, 29, of the 18100 block of West Hampshire in Gurnee, was arrested at 11:44 p.m. on April 27 at the intersection of Ridge and Wilmette. Police said they pulled him over for a traffic violation and then smelled alcohol on him. After a brief investigation, Arnold was arrested for DUI, processed and released.

THEFT

A resident of the 700 block of Washington reported that sometime during the night of April 19, someone had stolen two flower pots containing pink geraniums from her front porch.

FRAUD

Shortly after 10 a.m. on April 22, a victim on the 400 block of Illinois Road reported that someone used their Mastercard debit four times on the morning of April 20.

IDENTITY THEFT

• A victim on the 2500 block of Laurel Lane reported that sometime between Feb. 1 and April 22 someone used their identity to open and add names to credit cards. Several Apple items were purchased fraudulently and shipped to an address in Athens, Tennessee.
• A victim on the 400 block of Brookside Drive contacted police on April 24 at 9 am to report that she had been contacted by a representative from Kroll Credit and Identity Theft Monitoring and had been told that three credit card accounts (JC Penny, Chase, and Walmart) had been opened in her name online.
• The son of a 90-year-old resident of an independent living facility on the 2800 block of Old Glenview Road told police someone had stolen checks from his father at some point between March 5 and April 19 and was currently defrauding him.
• Approximately $5700 in merchandise was fraudulently purchased by someone between August 2016 and April 2017 using the personal information of a victim of the 700 block of 11th Street.

TRAFFIC ARRESTS

• A 24-year-old Evanston man was arrested for a suspended driver's license after being pulled over in the 200 block of Ridge Road for a minor traffic infraction on April 21 at 6:15 p.m.
• A 22-year-old man, of the 6600 block of North Fairfield Avenue in Chicago, was pulled over for using his cell phone while driving at 5:48 p.m. on April 24 in the 2200 block of Wilmette Avenue. He was found to have a suspended license, cited and released.
• A 50-year-old woman, of the 2200 block of Winnetka Road in Northfield, was pulled over for using her cell phone while driving at 7:48 p.m. on April 24 in the 3200 block of Lake Avenue. She was found to have a suspended license, cited and released.
• A 24-year-old woman, of the 6200 block of South Indiana in Chicago, was pulled over for talking on a cell phone shortly before 7:30 p.m. on April 26 at the intersection of Lake and Skokie. A check of the state database revealed her license was suspended. She was arrested, processed and released.
• A 24-year-old man, of the 3800 block of Lake Avenue in Wilmette was arrested shortly after 10 a.m. on April 27. Police said while they were conducting routine traffic enforcement they noticed a man driving a moped while balancing a small air hockey table across the foot well. Police pulled over the scooter for reasons they did not disclose and ran a database check, which revealed the moped was without any valid registration. The driver also had a suspended license and no insurance. He was arrested, processed and released.

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