Stranger Batters Man Using Skateboard; Pot Possession With Intent to Deliver

THURSDAY, MARCH 8 

Warrant Arrest

Enrique Mata, 45, of the 7700 block of West Emerald Court in Frankfort, was arrested around 2:35 p.m. in Bridgeview on a warrant out of the Police Department. 

TUESDAY, MARCH 6 

Pot Possession With Intent to Deliver

Billy R. Grindle Jr., 26, of the 8700 block of Escanaba in Chicago, was arrested around 4:30 p.m. in the 15900 block of South Harlem Avenue in Tinley Park. He was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.  

Warrant Arrest

Brittany L. Wallace, 22, of the 12700 block of South May Street in Calumet Park, was arrested around 5 p.m. at the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Ind., on a warrant out of the Tinley Park Police Department for theft. She was charged with theft and theft of more than $500. Her bail was set at $15,000. 

TUESDAY, MARCH 6

Stranger Batters Man Using Skateboard 

were called around 9 p.m. to the intersection of 175th Street and Duvan Drive, where a man said he was walking his dogs when he got attacked by another man who was armed with a skateboard. 

When officers got to the scene, they found a 31-year-old man who was bleeding from his mouth, they said. The man said he and his wife were out walking their dogs between their apartment building and the railroad tracks when three people walked over the tracks from Hickory Street.

"The dogs saw the subjects and became excited and got loose … " the wife told police. " … (The husband) shouted at the subjects to hold still until he could catch the dogs. The subjects ignored him and kept walking towards them with the dogs." 

The man approached the trio and said he was "suddenly hit in the face with a skateboard." All but one of the suspects ran from the scene.  

The one who stayed told a slightly different story, saying he and the other two men —all three met just earlier that day at a skate park—were approached by the woman's husband "who was yelling at them aggressively and calling them names." The man told the three to get off the private property and the suspect's two new friends kept walking, he said.

The husband walked right up to the pair and continued yelling, becoming more aggressive, the remaining suspect said. Then, one of the men hit the husband in the face with a skateboard and ran away. The lone suspect said he believes one of the others hit the victim because he believed he was about to be punched.

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