Attempted Child Abduction Reported on Holly Lane South of Central Rd, Unincorporated Des Plaines

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Attempted Child Abduction Suspect Des Plaines
Cook County Sheriff’s Police Department sketch of attempted child abduction suspect in unincorporated Des Plaines.

Cook County Sheriff’s police responded about 9:00 a.m. Monday to a report of attempted child abduction on Holly Lane between Linda Lane and Central Road just east of I-294.

A 10-year-old boy was walking along Holly Lane when the man approached him with a knife and said “come here.” The boy escaped uninjured, and ran home, according to Cook County Sheriff’s police.

Police issued a sketch of the armed man after they received the report that the offender attempted to abduct the boy in an apartment complex in unincorporated Des Plaines.

The offender is described as Middle Eastern or black, in his 40s with dark brown eyes, black hair, dark brown complexion, approximately 5’10” to 6′ tall and approximately 190 to 210 pounds. He was described as having a birthmark or a blemish above his eyebrow. He wore a plaid Kangol type hat and a tan trench coat.

Cook County Sheriff’s police urge anyone with information about this person to call Sheriff’s Police at 708-865-4896 or 847-635-1188.

 IMPORTANT ALERT … 

Cardinal Note: As of June 5, 2013 — up to and including the date of this article — police incidents related to the above police agency are not reported in real time or within a prompt time period. Police protecting their realm of investigation and police activity, have chosen to use secret military-grade encrypted radios to withhold their police communications, which were previously open to the public and news media via monitoring of public safety scanning radios — with no known negative results locally.

The delayed knowledge or entirely blacked out knowledge resulting from encrypted police communications may protect certain police operations and investigations, but it also puts the public at risk in situations such as when armed and dangerous offenders are at large and when other similar situations occur, such as when desperate offenders of property crimes are eluding police. In other cases, the delayed or blacked out information inhibits or prohibits the possibility of the public providing early witness accounts before a criminal trail goes cold. Citizens are much more likely to recognize or recall suspicious or criminal activity if they are aware of the criminal incident within minutes or hours of its occurrence. The most serious incident involving dire results would be a trail that is allowed to go cold in the case of child abduction.

The lack of real time information from public police dispatch also weakens an effective neighborhood watch program mostly working to prevent property loss, but also working to prevent possible violent crimes.

Lack of real time information from police dispatch also delays public awareness or eliminates public awareness of general hazards and traffic or other situations in every day living in an otherwise economically thriving community.

Police have alternate ways to transmit tactical, operational or investigative information, while still keeping their main public dispatch channels open for the best balance of public safety and police safety.




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