A member of Illinois Senate President Don Harmon’s staff was held at knife point by a man posing as a constituent inside of the senator’s Oak Park offices over the weekend.
On Friday, Nov. 14 at approximately 11:11 a.m., an assistant to Harmon reported that a man knocked on the door of the Constituent Service Office at 6941 North Ave., police said.
The man asked about a bill and when the assistant looked away to their computer and then turned back, the man was holding a knife in one hand and the assistant’s cell phone in the other. He asked, “do you have a wallet?” The assistant stood up and went to a door that leads to the campaign office. There, a different assistant called 911, while she called her husband who was able to track the phone’s location in real time, according to police.
The man, a 35-year-old resident of 3900 block of N. Lincoln Avenue, was arrested on charges of armed robbery at approximately 12:51 p.m. on Friday on the 1700 block of Narragansett Ave. in Chicago, according to police.
Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon arrest
Oak Park police arrested a man with an active out of state warrant for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon over the weekend.
Police arrested a 27-year-old El Paso, TX man on the felony charge after stopping him for a traffic violation in the 600 block of South Humphrey Avenue shortly before 6:10 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 15, according to police.
The man is now in Cook County custody, according to county records.
These items were obtained from Oak Park’s Police Department reports dated Nov. 11 – Nov. 18 and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed a description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.
