Oak Park police are investigating an incident in which a group of robbers stole tens of thousands of dollars by targeting a local bank while a staffer was doing maintenance on an ATM.
An employee at the Chase bank location in the 900 block of Madison Street was servicing an ATM with the machine’s door open when three men stepped out of a new white Nissan Rogue with paper registration and removed five ATM cassettes containing stacks of cash. The suspects then fled south in the Nissan on Clinton Avenue, according to police.
The suspects reportedly made off with $55,568 in cash, according to police.
Shots fired incident
Oak Park police are also investigating after reports of a late-night shots fired incident on the village’s eastern edge last week.
Police believe that a man stepped outside the passenger side of a sedan in the first block of Harvard Street and fired several shots into the air just after 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday March 25, before fleeing east into Chicago, according to police.
Police recovered four shell casings at the scene.
DUI arrest
Oak Park police arrested a Chicago man for driving under the influence in the village last week.
Police arrested the 28-year-old on charges of driving under the influence in the 1100 block of South Kenilworth Avenue shortly before 10 p.m. on Sunday, March 29, according to police.
These items were obtained from Oak Park’s Police Department reports dated March 24– March 30 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.