Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A Park Forest man found himself in trouble with the law after he allegedly sent what police say was a threatening picture text message to an ex. Joseph N. Gunderson, 20, 208 Mantua St., Park Forest, was arrested on August 5 and charged with harassment by electronic[Read More…]

The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Wendy Heise) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by other[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– On Thursday, July 29, 2010, the Charter One Bank branch, 540 West Lake Street, Addison, Illinois, was robbed by a lone, black male, the FBI reports. The man entered the bank around 3:25 p.m., walked over to the teller counter, handed the teller a note and allegedly announced[Read More…]

Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Eddie L. Mathis, Jr., 38, was found guilty yesterday of attempting to rob an off-duty Metropolitan Police Department officer and then shooting the officer in a December 2003 attack at a Washington, D.C. gas station, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today. The jury verdict followed a[Read More…]

Phoenix Peraza, age 5. (Photos: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) Update at 9:19 p.m. on 7-31-2010: Park Forest police say that Phoenix is safely in their custody. ENEWSPF spoke with two officers who credit our coverage with helping locate the boy. Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Police confirm that a[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Mohammad Alkaramla, 26, of Chicago, was convicted last Tuesday of mailing a bomb threat to a Jewish school in Chicago in late 2008 after a two-day bench trial before Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer in U.S. District Court. Judge Pallmeyer revoked bond for Alkaramla and ordered him detained pending sentencing,[Read More…]

The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Wendy Heise) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A 34-year-old man was arrested on July 23 and charged with criminal damage to property and criminal trespass to residence when police were dispatched to a residence in the 300 block of Sauk Trail to investigate a report of a subject who had broken a window and[Read More…]