Crime & Safety

Burglar Fails to Break Into Liquor Store: Police

Video showed a man running away after a rock he threw didn't break through a glass door.

Elmhurst police were called around 2 a.m. Jan. 9 to a liquor store in the 100 block of E. Fullerton for a glass break burglar alarm.

Officers found a large rock on the ground near the entrance of the store, according to Elmhurst police.

Security video showed a man wearing baggy jeans and a blue hoody threw a large rock at glass on the door. But the glass didn’t break and the man ran away toward the northeast, police reported.

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