Angry Man Batters Girlfriend, Tries To Attack Police

 Gustavo Cordero, 21, of Niles was charged with domestic battery and resisting a peace officer at the apartment he shares with his 17-year-old girlfriend in the 8800 block of Root Street, Niles, on June 16 at about 12:50 a.m.

When Niles police responded to a report of domestic violence in progress, the 17-year-old victim’s mother opened the door. The victim told police Cordero, with whom she lives and has a son, had pulled her hair, hit her and thrown her to the floor.

Police told Cordero, who was standing in a doorway to a bedroom, to come into the living room to speak with them and he refused. A police officer began to approach him and he walked toward the living room. When a police officer directed him to sit on the living room sofa, he refused and tried to throw a punch at the officer, but two other officers intercepted the swing. Cordero kicked and flailed his arms as they tried to put handcuffs on him and police used a Taser on him and handcuffed him.  Police policy requires Tasered individuals to be taken to a hospital, and they did so.

The victim later told police Cordero had been drinking all evening and they started to argue at about 12:40 a.m., as part of a pattern of arguing and fighting, and that she has been hit before. The victim and her mother decided to pursue domestic battery charges. The offender has a court date of July 21.

Woman charged with taking $500 worth of shoes

Diane Lewis, 49, of the West Pratt Street, Chicago, was charged with retail theft, Class 3 felony, after an employee of a retail store in the 7200 block of Harlem, said she clipped the tags off of three pairs of athletic shoes on June 18 at about 3 p.m., concealed them in an accomplice’s purse, left the store, then came back and repeated the process. Her court date is June 30.