Woman With Warrants In 3 States Arrested: Wilmette Crime Reports

WILMETTE, IL — The following information comes from the Wilmette Police Department as a record of police activity and those arrested by police. Criminal charges represent merely accusations by the state and can be dropped or reduced. Anyone named below is innocent unless their guilt is established beyond a reasonable doubt in court.

INCIDENTS

HOME BURGLARY
A resident in the 800 block of LeClaire Avenue reported someone used brute force to break open a door between 1:32 and 6:40 p.m. on Jan. 19. Items were reported stolen from the master bedroom.

POSSIBLE RUSE BURGLARY ATTEMPT
A resident of the 500 block of LeClaire Avenue reported that around 1 p.m. on Joan 19, a 30-40 year-old man with a dark complexion who identified himself as "Robert" rang her doorbell and claimed he wanted to show the resident a hole in the roof of her garage. The resident refused and told the man she would have her handyman inspect the roof. The man got into the passenger side of a green and gray pickup truck driven by another man and drove away. Police are not sure if the incident is related to the above incident in the 800 block of LeClaire.

POSSIBLE SHOPLIFTING ATTEMPT
Police responded to Carson's for a possible retail theft in progress after getting a report of a group of people in the store carrying around a large amount of Polo merchandise. Police believe a lookout in the parking lot notified those in the store that police were arriving, because three of the group individuals exited the store without any merchandise. Police confiscated various merchandise found in the vehicle and on their person with tags still attached and no receipts. Skokie Police responded and served the group a no trespass warning for Bloomingdale's at Old Orchard Mall. Police learned the same group was suspected in a retail theft reported around 10:30 a.m. in Northbrook. A representative of Saks Fifth Avenue in Northbrook responded and recovered Saks property and passed information along to Northbrook police.

ARRESTS

Rosie E. Pouch, 31, of the 11700 block of South Ashland Avenue, Chicago, was arrested on a warrant connected to a 2015 retail theft from a Walgreen's after Gurnee police notified Wilmette officers Pouch was in custody around 3:26 a.m. on Jan. 23. She was transported to Wilmette, where she allegedly admitted to the 2015 theft and was found to have three additional extraditable arrest warrants, two from Minnesota and one from Missouri.

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