Crime & Safety
Teen Attacks Man Stocking Items At Niles Grocery Store: Police
A beating from an 18-year-old Park Ridge resident sent a delivery driver to the hospital last month, police said.
NILES, IL — A man making a delivery to a grocery store in Niles last month was attacked and beaten by a teenager, police said.
Michael Soto, 18, of Park Ridge, was arrested Friday and charged with aggravated battery in a public place, a non-detainable class 3 felony.
Around 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 30, a 48-year-old delivery driver was stocking items on a shelf at Tony's Finer Foods, 8900 N. Greenwood Ave., when someone Soto came up to him and asked him where he could find items needed to make a homemade pizza, according to a police spokesperson.
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The two began arguing, and Soto wound up punching the delivery driver in the head "numerous times," police said.
The 48-year-old beating victim was taken to an area hospital with injuries that police described as non-life threatening.
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Soto was identified Dec. 8 and turned himself in Friday. According to police, he was identified from surveillance video footage and "investigative techniques."
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