Fugitive Shorewood Police Blotter

Aug. 6

Lucky number

A Shorewood cop randomly running license plate numbers hit it big when he stumbled upon a car driven by a man wanted on a Will County warrant.

The wanted man, 24-year-old Benjamin Davila of 3801 Flowermeadow St. in Joliet, was arrested about 3 p.m. near the intersection of Route 52 and Interstate 55.

Davila was taken into custody on a warrant charging him with driving under the influence.

Case of the purloined purse

A Crest Hill woman not only stole handbags from the target on Brookforest Avenue, but she stuffed the purloined purses with even more stolen merchandise before trying to make a break for it, police said.

Lisa Osborne, 50, of 1615 Raynor Ave. was charged with retail theft in connection with her alleged handbag heist at the 1111 Brookforest Ave. superstore.

Cops: Drunken liar arrested

A Plainfield man who lied to the law last month was picked up on a warrant when a person driving the car he was riding in was spotted without a seat belt, police said.

Byron Davis, 26, of 23616 Feeney Drive was arrested shortly before 7 p.m. at the BP gas station on Jefferson Street.

The car Davis was riding in was pulled over after an alert cop noticed the driver was not wearing a seat belt, police said.

The police then reportedly realized Davis was wanted in Will County on a charge of driving under the influence and in Chicago on a charge of disorderly conduct.

And to top it off, the Shorewood police slapped Davis with a charge of their own, hitting him with obstructing justice for allegedly lying about his name when they arrested one of his acquaintances on July 22.

Davis was with Chadi Dabbouseh, 23, of 8226 Tremont Lane in Joliet when Dabbouseh was arrested on a theft warrant in connection with a case investigated by the Will County Sheriff's Department, police said.

Davis evaded arrest by lying about his identity, police said, but the Shorewood cops figured it out in the meantime and took him into custody when they ran into him again.