Crime & Safety

Ball Pit Escape, Men Take Unwanted Liberties

A look at weird crimes in the northern Chicago suburbs.





By Emily Stone and David MacLean


OMG PD is on vacation this week so we're taking a look at some of our favorite bizarre crime reports from the last few months. Enjoy and happy Fourth of July!

After three days in ball pit, toddler turns binky into shiv

Someone used an unknown object to puncture the outer pane of glass causing it to crack at a McDonald's playland area in Arlington Heights.

You'd think that would go in the compost

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Evanston police found 100 pounds of pot with a street value of more than $100,000 in a recycling bin.

Transferred to the State Department of Cutey-Pooteys

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Someone called the Glencoe police to report that a mother duck and eight ducklings were crossing the southbound Edens Expressway near Dundee Rd.. The call was transferred to the Illinois State Police.

Police Investigate Canadian Crime Syndicate 

A seven-foot aluminum flagpole and U.S. flag were reported stolen from the front of Des Plaines home.

Men misinterpret the meaning of the name Libertyville

In two separate incidents, men entered homes in Libertyville that were not theirs. In one, the man fell asleep on the couch. 

Tread of a salesman

A Buffalo Grove resident reported that a solicitor walked on the home’s newly seal-coated driveway and then on the concrete stairs, leaving sealcoat material adhered to the concrete.


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