Crime & Safety

Police Find Heroin Needle On Man Stealing Jeans, They Said

In another incident, a missing purse is found in the mud six months later. An arrest is merely an accusation, not evidence of a conviction.

 

DATE OF ARREST: 4/28/2013 @ 1715 hrs ARREST LOCATION: Golf Mill Center (Retail Store) CHARGES: 720 ILCS 5/16-25-A-1 RETAIL THEFT (Class A) ARRESTED: ZAYTSEV, SERGIY Y, MALE, 24 yoa, LKA – 757 Garland Pl, Des Plaines, IL COURT DATE: 6/7/2013 rm. 103 at 0900 hrs

 

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Sergiy Zaytsev, 24, of Des Plaines was charged with retail theft April 28 when a security agent at a Golf Mill Shopping Center retail store said he took two pairs of jeans from a display, put them in his bag and exited the store without paying, according to the report. Police took Zaytsev into custody, and a routine search yielded four pocket knives and drug paraphernalia, including a spoon and needles that the suspect admitted he used earlier in the day to take heroin. However, police did not find any narcotics. Police also issued him a citation for possession of drug paraphernalia. 

Stolen purse found in mud

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A Niles woman who lives on Wood River Drive called police April 29 to say she was cleaning trash from a wooded area south of her house when she came across a black leather purse stuck in the mud. It contained a woman's wallet, driver's license and credit cards.

Police called the woman to whom the driver's license belonged, and she said she lost the purse in November and reported it to a police department. Niles Police Department records personnel did not find a report for the incident. The owner made arrangements to get the purse back from police.


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