Crime & Safety
Mirror Kicked Off New Car On Lot
The offender said he did it after he asked for a cigarette and was turned down. Arrest information is supplied by the Niles Police Department. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.
Angkham Souvongkham of North Bosworth Street, Chicago, was charged with knowingly damaging property and retail theft, a Class 4 felony, after a series of incidents Jan. 11. While he was at a retail store in Golf Mill Shopping Center, a security agent told police he observed Souvongkham putting his shoes in a shoe box and wearing a new pair of shoes, valued at $35, out of the store without paying for them, police said.
While police were interviewing Souvongkham, they discovered a side view mirror of a vehicle in his possession, and he told them he had asked a person in the parking lot for a cigarette, and when that person said no, he kicked the mirror off the new, for-sale vehicle, which belonged to an auto dealership and was parked with other new vehicles.
The dealership estimated the value of the mirror at $300. Souvongkham's court date is Jan. 26 in the Skokie branch of the Cook County courts.
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Woman charged with identity theft
Aliuddin Mohammed, 29, of North Talman Avenue, Chicago, was charged with aggravated financial identity theft after a 69-year-old Niles woman discovered a fraudulent charge of $793.04 on her bank checking account. A Niles police investigator established that the offender furnished the victim's debit card information to the offender's roommate to make a fraudulent purchase on the Internet. Police took Mohammed into custody Jan. 11 at 3:45 p.m. at an office in the 7500 block of Milwaukee Avenue. Mohammed's court date is Jan. 24 in Skokie.
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