Intoxicated Man Tried To Start Bar Fights

Primitivo Flores, 23, of Niles was cited for public intoxication at about 3:15 a.m. Saturday morning. Police responded to a call from a bar in the 8500 block of Golf Road, Niles, and found Flores appearing to be so highly intoxicated that he was unable to communicate and almost in a stupor. 

Employees of the bar said he had arrived about an hour earlier and appeared to already be intoxicated when he arrived. One bartender said she served him two mixed vodka drinks. They said he had been walking around the bar trying to start fights with employees and patrons. The manager asked him to leave but he refused, and security staff escorted him outside. 

The Niles Fire Department took Flores to Lutheran General Hospital, but he struggled with staff and had to be restrained. The bar was also cited for overserving. 

Couple argued through locked apartment door

Police responded to a domestic dispute at an apartment in the 6900 block of Caldwell Ave., Niles, Sunday at about 11 p.m., and found a man knocking at an apartment door. He told them he and his wife had had a verbal dispute Friday and that he left the apartment to avoid problems. He had been staying at his mother's home but returned to the apartment to get some money and a blanket. His wife wouldn't let him into the apartment so they were arguing through the locked door.

The wife corroborated the story and said she started to open the door  but then he continued to yell and swear, so she shut the door. The husband agreed to leave for the evening and go back to his mother's home.