Retail theft
Lamont Simms, 39, of Harvey, was arrested Oct. 6 and charged with retail theft at Walgreens, 7960 W. 159th St.
Police said a store employee called them after seeing a man take microSD memory disks from a display shelf and put them in his pants pocket. Police found Simms, and he gave a false name, according to the police report.
Simms is due in court Nov. 19 at the Bridgeview Courthouse. The store also banned him for life.
Roxanna Botello, 68, of Chicago Ridge, was arrested Oct. 6 and charged with retail theft at Jewel, 9350 W. 159th St.
Police said they assisted on a theft report at the store and found Botello. Store officials had already recovered goods taken from Jewel, according to the police report. Police then searched her car and found three potted plants. Botello told them she took the plants from Lowe’s without paying, police said.
Botello was given an optional Nov. 3 court date at the Orland Park Village Hall.
Ian P. Havermale, 40, of Quincy, was arrested Oct. 8 and charged with retail theft at Jewel, 9350 W. 159th St.
Police said store officials called them and told them Havermale had tried to steal from the store the previous week, a theft they did not report. This time, he tried to steal three bottles of alcohol, according to the police report. When police asked why, he told them he was short on cash, police said.
Havermale is due in court Nov. 19 at the Bridgeview Courthouse. The store banned him for life.
Disorderly conduct
John R. Moncada, 45, of the 8900 block of Fairway Drive in Orland Park, and Brent Brooks, 43, of Victoria, Texas, were arrested Oct. 6 and charged with disorderly conduct in the 14000 block of Dogwood Drive.
Police said they were called to an argument there, and one of the men said he had been maced. Moncada had “snots and liquids coming from his nose and he kept spitting on the ground, consistent with being maced or pepper-sprayed,” according to the police report.
Brooks told police that Moncada confronted him for being at a park without children, police said. Brooks said he told Moncada to back up several times, police said. Brooks told Moncada he would “split his head open like a zipper,” according to the report. Police said Brooks then pepper-sprayed him.
Brooks told police he was a professional wrestler, cage fighter, emergency worker and law enforcement defensive tactics officer, police said.
Moncada appeared intoxicated and would not stop yelling, and police handcuffed him, according to the report.
Police said they could not determine who started the confrontation and were prepared to make no arrests. A witness wanted to press charges because children were at the park, police said.
Both men have mandatory hearings scheduled for Nov. 3 at the Orland Park Village Hall.
Police report information is provided by law enforcement agencies. Charges are not evidence of guilt. They are a record of police actions taken. Persons charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law.
Compiled by Jeff Vorva
