Inside Oak Village Part III - The Return of the Alleged Ankle-Grabber

TINLEY PARK, IL — The day after he was arrested for grabbing women’s ankles, a Tinley Park man returned to his home in the Oak Village condo complex — and a resident said he started acting up again, according to police.

On June 11, drunken ex-convict Kevin Todd Leroy, 45, not only grabbed some ankles, police said, he also showed up at the Oak Village pool drunk and toting a bottle of vodka, proceeded to curse up a storm, filch a little girl’s swim goggles, threaten her father, and make a racist remark.

Leroy wasn’t arrested until 10 days later. The same day he was taken into custody, one of the women who claimed to have endured his alleged ankle-grabbing, 46-year-old Maureen Bracken, was pushed around by her boyfriend, police said.

The boyfriend, 45-year-old Daniel Hansen, also allegedly punched one of Bracken’s pals. Bracken was talking with the friend, 30-year-old Paul Krumrie, when Hansen arrived and started to push her, police said.

Krumrie reportedly told the cops he brandished a pocket knife and Hansen took off on his turquoise motorcycle. The cops later arrested Hansen when he emerged from a bar down Oak Park Avenue from Oak Village.

The day after Bracken’s alleged incident with Hansen, she reportedly called the cops and told them Leroy was riding a bicycle around the Oak Village parking lot.

“Maureen said that Kevin then began yelling out, ‘Watch your back Mo, lock your doors. I’m going to get you,’” according to a police report.

But Bracken started changing her story, police said.

“Maureen then stated, ‘Yeah, it couldn’t have been a car, he must have been on a bike, he doesn’t drive,’” according to a report detailing a police officer’s conversation with Bracken.

“I then asked Maureen if she had seen Kevin riding a bicycle and she replied, ‘Yes, he must have been riding a bicycle,’” the report said. “I asked, ‘Did you see Kevin riding a bicycle, yes or no?’ Maureen replied, ‘Well, no I didn’t actually see him, I assumed it was him based on the voice.’"

The officer said he “told Maureen (he) did not find her story completely credible as she was including her assumptions.”

But whether she actually saw Leroy or not, Bracken was sure it was him yelling at her, police said.

“Maureen then said that Kevin has a distinctive voice. Maureen stated that she wants Kevin’s behavior addressed,” the report said.

“Maureen then said, ‘It had to have been Kevin and not my ex-boyfriend,’” according to the report.
“My ex-boyfriend wouldn’t do that,” Bracken reportedly added, explaining, “My ex-boyfriend was arrested yesterday too.”

The police later tracked down Leroy at Zabrocki Plaza, a report said. An officer “asked Kevin if he was at the condo building yelling at Maureen. Kevin replied, ‘I live in the next building over, I walked my dog earlier and that was it, I didn’t say anything to her.’”

Leroy had alcohol on his breath, police said.

Even though the police did not find Bracken’s “story completely credible,” Leroy still ended up in the Cook County Jail on a charge of harassment of a witness, as part of his alleged rant was supposedly caught on video.

Leroy remains in custody. His bail was set at $200,000.

Read the first two installments here:

• Inside Oak Village Part I - Foul-Mouthed, Ankle-Grabbing Ex-Con Bothers Bathers, Makes Racist Remark: Cops
• Inside Oak Village Part II - Ankle-Grabbed Woman Again Attacked, Defended By Knife-Wielding Pal: Cops