From Champaign to drugs
JOLIET -- Oh ... well, I guess he didn't.
Police were called around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to the 100 block of Munroe Street where a 37-year-old man said he had been robbed.
The Champaign resident told officers he had been visiting family when a cousin "he had not seen in 15 years." took out a handgun and said, "Give me your money, cuz."
Deputy Chief Mike Trafton said officers found and questioned the cousin. "He denied any knowledge of what happened and investigators continued questioning the victim, who admitted he had not been robbed, but had given his cousin money to buy drugs."
Tyrone E. Harris, of 611 W. Bradley Ave. in Champaign, was arrested and booked into the county jail on a charge of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report.
Perhaps they're crop circles or some trespassers may just like mazes. Will County Sheriff's police were notified Oct. 21 that sometime since July, "someone had entered a farm field near West Jefferson Street and North Wynstone Drive and made what appeared to be a maze in the corn crops."
Approximately $700 worth of corn was damaged.
Will County Sheriff's police were called to the Will County Forest Preserve at Ingalls Avenue and Essington Road to investigate a vehicle crash at 3:22 p.m. Sept. 27.
Deputies found "a blue Ford van approximately 250 feet off the roadway, surrounded by heavy brush."
"All four tires were flat and the rims were damaged. There was also a tree approximately 10 feet tall wedged under the chassis. (The front bumper) had been damaged from striking the tree and a handicap parking sign and post," police said.
Elizabeth Pope, 24, of 22 S. Park Ave. in Waukegan, allegedly told officers she had been trying to make a U-turn in the parking lot and struck the curb. Pope reportedly failed a Breathalyzer and field sobriety tests and was booked into the county jail on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol.
