Kevin Slewo, 21, of Morton Grove was charged with two counts of Class 4 Felony Burglary to Vehicle June 10 just before 11 p.m. in the 8000 block of Lyons.
Police arrived at the scene after a witness called to say he thought an offender broke a car window and was going through the trunk of a vehicle. Police located an offender, Slewo, walking on Washington Street and matching the description given by the witness, according to the report.
Police ordered him to stop, but he did not, and police saw him drop a white bag. At the second order, he stopped, the report indicated. Police found women's costume jewelry, sunglasses, a battery charger, T-Mobile cell phone and change on him, they said. He told police the items belonged to his girlfriend.
Police said the white bag Slewo dropped was a UPS delivery bag addressed to a 51-year-old Niles woman and containing a necklace and a users manual for an indoor antenna.
The witness who made the call to police positively identified Slewo as the person he had seen breaking the car window, according to the report.
Police contacted the two female owners of the various items, and they identified them as being their property. Slewo's court date was June 13 in the Skokie branch of the Cook Count courts.
Woman gets felony charge based on previous retail theft
Alicia Lewosz, 48, of Des Plaines was charged with Class 4 felony retail theft June 10 after a security agent for a tore in the 8500 block of Golf Road said she took food items and a bottle of alcohol worth $32.18 and exit without paying. A Cook County assistant state's attorney approved the felony charged based on prior convictions.
Man charged with felony for stealing car stereo
Carlos Juarez-Catalan was charged with Class 2 Felony Burglary to Motor Vehicle June 10, just before 1 a.m. A security agent for a nightclub in the 8500 block of Golf Road told police he had seen the offender enter a red Mitsubishi which the security agent happened to know was owned by someone else, according to the report.
The witness saw the offender leave the vehicle carrying a car stereo, the report indicated, and put the stereo behind another vehicle. The security agent confronted the offender, who denied taking the stereo.
The victim is a 34-year-old Des Plaines man; the stereo cost is estimated at $650. Juarez-Catalan's court date was June 13 in the Skokie branch of the Cook County court.
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Information is taken form Niles Police Department reports.
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