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NewsSummit police nab three in graffiti incidentBy James Pluta Three teenagers — two from Cicero, one from nearby Brookfield — were arrested while marking up an underpass with street gang grafitti and fleeing from Summit police last week. The Cicero offenders, Jose M. Rodriguez and Erasmo D. Bueno, both 19 and Javier Martinez, 18, of Brookfield, were each charged with criminal defacement of property. Bueno and Martinez also face charges of resisting a peace officer for fleeing from officers after being caught tagging in the area of First Avenue and the Stevenson Expressway on Feb. 9. When officers arrived after being dispatched on a call for graffiti being drawn on the cement structure, Rodriguez was immediately placed under arrest. However, while Bueno and Martinez ran away, police said Bueno was apprehended by officers after a nealy 200-yard chase and Martinez took off further, running northbound on the freight tracks after jumping about 20 feet down off an embankment. Martinez was eventually arrested in the residential area of McCook. All three have a scheduled court hearing on Friday, March 19. Police Chief Les Peterson credited the investigating officers for chasing down and apprehending all three suspects, noting its not often someone witnesses such a crime and the alleged perpetrator or perpetrators are caught. “It’s just another feather in the cap of our officers,” he said. |
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