OMG PD: Odd Crimes in Our Patch Region

Ten dinner plates, two bottles of body wash and three candles were stolen from an Oak Park apartment.

A Skokie man was caught allegedly trying to leave a Skokie supermarket with a cart full of beer and groceries. When police stopped him after he allegedly fled the store without paying, police said the man declared: “I plead the Fifth.”

Fifteen boxes of ice cream treats were stolen from a trio of Good Humor trucks parked behind in Oak Park. Investigators say the bandit or bandits broke the front plastic passenger window of one of the trucks and forced down the passenger windows of the other two. The stolen ice cream was valued at $350.

An employee at a Deerfield told police she was mopping the floors when a Northbrook man slapped her on the butt and fled on a bicycle. The man, who police say is known to sleep under the tollway, was charged with battery.

Change was stolen from a vending machine at First Baptist Church in Oak Park. Total estimated loss was $125.  

A woman reportedly ran out of the Howard Beauty Supply with a DreamWeaver wig without paying. The wig had a retail price of $55.

A Mundelein woman was arrested at the Deerfield  after store security reported watching her slip two packages of fish, worth $42.01, into her purse and leave without paying.

Twenty-five issues of the Sunday Chicago Tribune were stolen from the entryway of an Oak Park .