Police Blotter: Attackers Hurl Asphalt and Ashtrays at Victims

SATURDAY, NOV. 19

Attacked With Ashtray

Rhonda Adams, 46, of the first block of 16th Place, was arrested and charged with domestic battery after a man who lives with her told police he was asleep when she came into his bedroom and hit him with an ashtray before scratching his right hand and breaking a window. The man also told police that on Nov. 7 Adams cut his nose with a screwdriver. 

Candy Thieves

A employee of the BP gas station at 322 W. 14th St. told police two men entered the store and took a box of Snickers candy bars and another box of M&Ms without paying. The candies were valued at nearly $100 combined, according to the report.

FRIDAY, NOV. 18

Ambushed With Asphalt

A 39-year-old bartender at Club Suavee, at 1603 Western Ave., told police she was leaving the club when another woman threw a piece of asphalt and struck her in the back of her head. The woman pavement thrower then told the bartender she would be back Saturday to kill her, according to the report. The bartender, who had a small cut and swelling on her head, told police she could seek her own medical care.

THURSDAY, NOV. 17

Stolen Handicap Sticker

A 58-year-old Chicago Heights woman told police her car was parked outside the Salvation Army at 150 Halsted St. when someone took the blue and white handicap placard hanging from her rear view mirror. The stolen placard has the numbers 112353 punched into it, according to the report. The woman told police she had left her doors open at the time the placard was stolen.

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