Crime & Safety
Truck Stolen In Dispute Over $10,000
After a contractor was accused of owing his client $10,000; his truck, ahem, disappeared, according to a report. Also, a woman tried to have her husband forced into rehab for alcoholism.
Police responded March 20 to a report of a stolen vehicle from residential property in the 7500 block of Kirk. The victim, a 38-year-old Niles man, told them he had been doing construction for a 36-year-old Arlington Heights man, and they have had a disagreement about financing, with the client insisting the contractor owed him $10,000, according to the report.
The contractor said he went on vacation March 6 and left his trailer, with his tools in it, in the driveway of his Niles home; when he returned March 18 it was gone, according to the report. The contractor called the client in Arlington Heights to ask where the trailer was, and the client told him he had had to move it to the street and it was towed by police. However, Niles police verified they had not towed it, the report indicated.
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The contractor again asked the client the whereabouts of the trailer, and the client told the victim he would see his trailer again when the client saw his $10,000 again. When the contractor said he was going to call police, the client said he didn't know where the trailer was.
Niles police phoned the client, but he had not called back by the time the report was filed. Arlington Heights police advised they did not find the trailer at the client/offender's residence, according to the report. Niles police entered the trailer into the state theft database.
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Woman tries to force husband into detox in concern over daughter
In a domestic dispute case March 19 about 2:20 p.m., police responded to a home in the 7600 block of Grennan, where a 48-year-old woman told them she believed her estranged husband was intoxicated and needed to be admitted to an alcoholism detox center, according to the report. Officers spoke to the husband and determined he was not intoxicated; however, he refused medical attention. The woman told police she wants her husband to join Alcoholics Anonymous, and that she is worried he may die prematurely and be unable to pay for their special-needs daughter's treatment, the report indicated.
The husband admitted to drinking a small amount of alcohol after work; he decided to leave the residence, where he had been staying after an argument with his girlfriend, and return to the girlfriend's residence. Police provided the wife a domestic violence fact sheet.
Information is taken from Niles Police Department reports.
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