Retail theft
Kenneth L. Sanders, 21, of Chicago, was arrested on Oct. 22 and charged with retail theft at Verizon 159, 9264 W.159th St. Police said they were called by the business that a subject left the store without paying for merchandise. According to the police report, Sanders was located nearby at Jewel holding a white tablet. Police said a Verizon employee positively identified Sanders and the tablet, worth a reported $1,399, and police arrested him. He has a court date scheduled for Nov. 19 at the Bridgeview Courthouse.
Criminal trespass/Aggravated assault
Scott W. Washack, 62, of Merrionette Park, was arrested on Oct. 22 and charged with criminal trespass and harassment by telephone in the 15600 block of Ravinia Avenue. Police said Washack had been calling 911 and making threats and yelling obscenities. According to the police report, he had made previous calls and said that police have tried to murder him since 2009. Police said the calls were pinging from a wooded area south of the Darvin Furniture lot and north of 156th Street and that he had set up a camp in the wooded area. Police said he received a trespass warning from that area in the past, and when they found him, he was confrontational. He was cited and has a court date scheduled for Nov. 23 at the Bridgeview Courthouse.
Four days later, Washack was arrested at the Quick and Clean Laundromat 9945 W. 151st Street and charged with aggravated assault. Police said he appeared to be intoxicated and threatened police yelling obscenities and threatening to kill them. He was arrested and the charges will be added to his scheduled court date.
Criminal damage
Larry Norman Cornellier, 63, of Beloit, Wisconsin, was arrested on Oct. 24 and charged with criminal damage to property at the Arctic Ice Arena, 10799 W. 160th St. Police said they were dispatched to the arena where a window was broken by a subject, who drove off in a blue Chevrolet truck. According to the police report, Cornellier returned to the arena, and his hands and clothes had blood on them. Police said witnesses said he was in the bar area banging on the glass and yelling. The glass finally broke and another person suffered a cut to the forehead, police said. He was arrested and has a Dec. 1 court date scheduled at the Bridgeview Courthouse.
Louis A. Cross, 25, of Chicago, was arrested on Oct. 27 and charged with criminal damage to property and exerting control over stolen property knowing or believing it to be stolen at Nordstrom Rack, 140 Orland Park Place. Police said they received a call from the store that a subject was selecting fragrances and pitting them into a suitcase. According to the police report, store officials said that Cross cut a spider wrap sensor off of the suitcase and began placing fragrances in the suitcase. Police said they stopped him and arrested him, and he has a Nov. 19 court date scheduled at the Bridgeview Courthouse. He also received a lifetime ban from Nordstrom Rack.
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
