Crime & Safety

Two Men Charged With Public Intoxication; One Gets Belligerent

The other was lying on his vehicle with music playing.

Luis Ortiz-Hernandez, 26, of Rolling Meadows, was charged with public intoxication and resisting a peace officer (Class A) after police observed him staggering and yelling in a parking lot in the 8500 block of Golf Road, Niles, on July 11 at 4 a.m. 

Police observed open beer bottles laying next to the vehicle Ortiz-Hernandez was about to get into. Officers said they could smell alcohol on his breath and he admitted drinking. After giving him a ticket for public intoxication, police offered him a taxi ride. When the taxi arrived, they removed the offender's handcuffs and he clenched his fist, began walking toward the police officers and became verbally abusive toward them.

Police asked him several times to get in the taxi and go home, but when he continued yelling, they charged him. His court date is July 27 in the Skokie branch of the Cook County courts.

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Additional public intoxication case

Leonardo Lopez Porcoya, 24, of Arlington Heights, was ticketed for public intoxication at the same time and place as Ortiz-Hernandez. Police found him lying on his vehicle with the door open and music playing and empty beer bottles nearby. When asked if he had been drinking, he said yes. Police called a taxi to take him home.

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