Wife Fears For Her Life

Fernando Lopez, 22, of Park Ridge was charged with telephone harassment and disorderly conduct Jan. 24 after his 22-year-old wife called police in tears. According to police, she said she had been talking to her husband on the phone when he threatened to come over and kill her. She is staying with a relative in Niles as she recovers from a vehicle accident. Police said the husband threatened to kill her whether or not police were present because "wouldn't it be cool to be killed by five cops." She also related that he has beaten her in the past but that she did not report it, police said.

Park Ridge police located the offender in Park Ridge, and transferred him to Niles police for booking. His court date is Feb. 28 in the Skokie branch of the Cook County courts.

Medicine theft also yields suspect cocaine

Hugo Castellanos, 33, of North Southport Street, Chicago, and Gregory Gagliano, 23, of West Giddings street, Chicago, were charged with Class 4 felony retail theft after a Jan. 20 incident, just after 2:20 p.m., and Gagliano was also charged with possession of a controlled substance.

Security agents for a Golf Mill Shopping Center store said they observed Castellanos select three boxes of an over the counter medication valued at $74.67 and conceal them, and Gagliano select five boxes of the same medication, valued at $124.45, and conceal them, according to police. The report said both then left the store without paying for the merchandise. Security agents stopped both men and held them until police arrived, according to police. As police searched Gagliano's property, they discovered a white powder, which field-tested positive for cocaine, wrapped in a small tin foil packet in his jacket pocket, the report indicated.

Both men had a court date Jan. 24 in Skokie.

Information is taken from reports.

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