Published Sunday September 30 2012 4:58 pm. Tags: animal complaint, barking dog complaint
Arlington Heights police received a report about 4:52 PM Sunday an animal complaint at Hintz Road and Ridge Avenue. Police received a report that three dogs were being loud while fornicating on the north side of the street. This takes the barking dog complaint to a new level. Today has been a significant day for [...]
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Published Wednesday July 11 2012 7:41 pm. Tags: animal complaint, public service, Schaumburg Police Department
Schaumburg police responded about 7:20 p.m. Wednesday to a report that nine piglets were on the loose near Volkening Heritage Farm, 201 South Plum Grove Road. Beat car: “What’s on the loose?” Dispatcher: “Nine little piglets.” Beat car: “They must have gone ‘Wee wee wee’ all the way home… ’cause I’m not ‘showing’ anything. This [...]
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Published Sunday February 26 2012 10:41 pm. Tags: police public service, police public service Schaumburg, Schaumburg, Shcaumburg Police Department
Schaumburg police responded about 10:25 p.m. Sunday to a report that a customer was stranded inside a closed CVS Pharmacy, 1855 West Irving Park Road. Police received a report from a customer that all the employees left the store and that he was still inside the store. First police officer on the scene reported, “we [...]
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Published Sunday February 26 2012 9:39 am. Tags: citizen rescue, escalator, escalator extrication, escalator extrication Morton Grove, Morton Grove, Morton Grove Fire Department
Morton Grove firefighter/paramedics responded about 9:27 a.m. Sunday to a report of a woman with clothes “stuck in an elevator door” at LA Fitness, 6821 Dempster Road. Firefighters first on the scene reported a woman had clothes entrapped in an escalator at the second floor. The woman’s clothing was cut to free her from the [...]
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Posted in FIREBLOG C, Say That Again?
Published Friday February 10 2012 8:08 pm. Tags: EMS call, Mount Prospect Fire Department, Say That Again?
Mount Prospect police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 8:01 p.m. Friday to St. Raymond’s Church, 300 South Elmhurst Road to a report that a female’s tongue was stuck, frozen to a pole. The female managed to get her tongue free of the pole before firefighter/paramedics arrived. Firefigher/paramedics continued in to check to make sure the female [...]
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Published Wednesday November 23 2011 5:16 pm. Tags: animal stories, Arlington Heights Police Department, Buffalo Grove Police Department, cruelty to animals, domestic dispute, Palatine Police Department
Animal stories dominate a bizarre day this Wednesday before Thanksgiving in the Northwest suburbs. Today’s B-shift on the police force started abruptly. Wednesday morning several dogs were running loose, including one little Chihuahua that had police chasing him down the railroad tracks in Arlington Heights near Euclid Avenue and Northwest Highway about 8:45 a.m. Police [...]
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Published Tuesday November 22 2011 1:33 pm.
Mount Prospect police responded about police responded about 1:25 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a refrigerator that fell onto the roadway on northwestbound lanes of Rand Road west of Mount Prospect Road. The refrigerator fell off of a flatbed truck. Police helped lift the refrigerator back onto the truck.
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Published Thursday April 07 2011 6:00 am.
Whether it’s a long winter, the economy or just plain inexplicable, there have been two bizarre apparent suicide attempts in the past week — one resulted in a death. It’s times like these that you just have to bow your head and feel for someone who ends up committing extreme violence on his or her [...]
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Published Monday October 11 2010 2:55 pm. Tags: driving complaint
Arlington Heights police received a report about 12:45 p.m. Monday that a red car, with its hood up, was traveling westbound on Northwest Highway from Kaspar Avenue in Arlington Heights. The hood was reported all the up — blocking the view of the driver. The car was last seen passing Kennicott. No report of police [...]
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Published Wednesday August 04 2010 12:08 pm. Tags: 9-1-1, 9-1-1 audio, arrest, marijuana
Heard from around the northwest suburbs this week. Police responded to a home where the teenaged son was on a rampage looking for his cell phone — and apparently destroying parts of the house in the process. Later the same night a man walked into a convenience store and asked if there was any pot [...]
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Published Sunday May 23 2010 9:38 am. Tags: Say That Again?, say what?, suspicious incident
Sometimes the police have to answer some bizarre calls about suspicious incidents. Sometimes they turn out to be good leads, and sometimes they just seem a little too far-fetched. Last night Arlington Heights police got a call for water backing up in a sink that appeared to have human skin floating in it … and [...]
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Published Monday October 19 2009 3:31 pm. Tags: HazMat, Mount Prospect Fire Department, skunk, strange but true
Mount Prospect Fire Department responded to the 1800 block of West Catalpa for the report of a dog that returned home with a strange-smelling residue on its paws — sort of like some type of ‘stink bomb.’ Mount Prospect firefighters responded and investigated the dog’s paws and determined the dog had been sprayed by a [...]
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