Police Blotter: Ski Mask Wearing Gunman Demands Weed

MONDAY, NOV. 21

Car Fire

A 22-year-old Chicago Heights man told police he heard his car alarm going off around 9:20 a.m. and went to check on it, only to find the driver's side interior of the car was on fire. The Chicago Heights Fire Department extinguished the fire.

Armed ... With a BB Gun

A 39-year-old Chicago Heights woman told police her husband slapped her across the face with his right hand and grabbed her throat with his left. He then fled her home before police arrived, according to the report. The woman told police she believed her husband had a BB gun on him during the incident.

Refreshment Theft

An employee of Millennium Foods, 11 W. 16th Street, told police he saw a man in a grey shirt and blue jeans putting potato chips, cupcakes and drinks in a grocery bag. When the employee approached the man, he ran out of the store with the bag without paying, according to the report.

SATURDAY, NOV. 19

Give Me All Your Weed

A 34-year-old Chicago Heights man told police he was in the 1100 block of Claude Court around 10 p.m. when a man wearing a ski mask, dark clothing and a red hat told him he had a gun and demanded he give him any weed he may have. After the victim told him he had no weed, the masked man walked away, according to the report. The same man approached the victim again at 16th and Vincennes, pointed a silver pistol at him and told him not to tell anyone about the attempted weed robbery, according to the report.

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