After she stole a wallet, police said, she hid her identity, became defiant, obstructed police, and then became suicidal. An arrest is merely an accusation and is not evidence of a conviction.
Nakia Dickerson, 30, of North Lawndale Street, Chicago, was charged Dec. 13 with obstructing identification, resisting a peace officer and knowingly damaging property, a class 2 felony, in a theft case. Niles police responded just before 10:15 a.m. to the 8000 block of Wisner, where a 28-year-old Niles man said Dickerson had taken his wallet and refused to give it to him. Police followed Dickerson into the residence after she ran inside and locked the door, they said, and gave a name and birth date that was not her true information. Police said while they were talking to her, she tried to hide something in her hand and run into the bathroom, and when officers tried to stop her, she became combative and tried to strike an officer with …
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