Police Blotter: Two Charged with Aggravated Battery of Police Officer

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6

Obscenities Burned into Grass

Police received a report at 12:03 p.m. that, some time the day before, someone burned some of the grass to form an obscenity outside a village water station in the 200 block of Ann Street.

There was also evidence that the vandal had set off an "Alka-Seltzer bomb," a two-liter bottle filled with bleach and an effervescent antacid that explodes loudly and leaves bleach stains.

SATURDAY, JUNE 4

Telephone Threat

A resident from the 200 block of Burlington Avenue reported to police at 10:51 a.m. of receiving a threatening voicemail from a known person who claimed he was going to come to the complainant's home and "shoot the place up."

The complainant did not want to pursue charges at that time, but did want the incident documented.

SUNDAY, JUNE 3

Charges in Aggravated Battery of Police Officer

Two 19-year-old men were charged with aggravated battery of a police officer after an incident at a Clarendon Hills home that stemmed from a retail theft at Jewel, 303 Holmes Ave.

Jewel employees reported seeing Kelechukwu A. Akuba, of the 300 block of East Daisy Circle in Romeoville, take a bottle of liquor from the grocery store at 10:48 a.m. When Clarendon Hills Police found and confronted him near the intersection of 55th Street and Clarendon Hills Road, Akuba ran into a home in the 5600 block of Clarendon Hills Road. Akuba slammed the door behind him, hitting an officer who was chasing him. 

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While that officer tracked down Akuba in the house, his partner was outside, keeping the homeowner from going back inside. At that time, around 11 a.m., the homeowner's son and Kelechukwu's friend, Leroy M. Burton of the 5600 block of Clarendon Hills Road, allegedly pushed the officer who was outside. 

Both Akuba and Burton were charged with felony aggravated battery of a police officer and resisting arrest. Akuba was also charged with retail theft. Both were transported to DuPage County Jail.

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