Chase involves shoplifting suspect on bicycle

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Elgin police Officer Jay Sheehan stands with a shoplifting suspect outside a squad car so witnesses in another squad across the street can positively ID him as the person who stole liquor from Walmart Tuesday. | Bill O'Neill~For Sun-Times Media

Updated: January 29, 2012 8:10AM

Elgin

Bike flight: Police arrested a man early Tuesday afternoon after he reportedly tried to steal six bottles of vodka from the Walmart store on Randall Road, then took off on a bicycle with police in pursuit. Witnesses said the fleeing shoplifter led police on a chase down Bowes Road, then through the subdivision northwest of Bowes and McLean Boulevard before being stopped. Police said Rogelio Soto, 33, who is homeless, was charged with retail theft and resisting an officer.

Burglarized overnight: A woman and her 14-year-old stepdaughter said their home in the 600 block of West Chicago Street was burglarized while they slept on the night of Dec. 25-26. When they woke up about 9 a.m. Monday, they told police, an outside door was ajar, a Coach purse was missing, and cash and other items had been stolen from another purse.

National Louis burglary: Between Thursday night and Monday morning of the Christmas weekend, someone used a rock to break a window in the National Louis University building and stole an LCD projector from a classroom, employees told police. The employees said two men, who may have been the same two men who had made a delivery there recently, had been acting suspiciously on Thursday around the campus, at 620 Tollgate Road.

Apartment burglarized: A burglar stole a PlayStation3 game console, a video game and $60 cash from an apartment in the 400 block of Ryerson Avenue between 3 and 5 p.m. Monday, police said. Officers could not tell how the burglar got in.

Assault in the E.R.: Police said Federico Campos, 40, of the 200 block of Douglas Avenue, Elgin, was to be charged with aggravated assault and obstructing an officer after an incident Monday night in Provena Saint Joseph Hospital’s emergency room. Police said Campos’ sister called them about 11:30 p.m., saying she was worried because he was saying nonsensical things and seemed to be letting natural gas into his apartment from his stove. When the man refused to let police into his apartment, officers said, they kicked in the door, which they said Campos had blocked on the inside by piling up stones and bricks. They then arranged to take him to the hospital by ambulance for a mental evaluation, police said. Once at the hospital, police reported, Campos stood up on a gurney, struck a nurse with a heart-rate monitor and struggled with two hospital security officers before being restrained and sedated.

Windshield kicked out: An Elgin man was accused of kicking out the windshield on his girlfriend’s car and obstructing peace officers during an argument about 1:50 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of Jane Drive. Andres C. Diaz, 18, who lives in that block, was charged with criminal damage to property and two counts of obstructing an officer. The girlfriend said Diaz had become upset about her going to buy cigarettes, had stood on the car’s engine hood and had kicked the windshield until it shattered. Police said Diaz then locked himself in the car and refused to come out after police arrived.