Late on July 10, a man waved down police from the Portillo’s parking lot, where he said he saw a woman stumble out of her car. Police followed the woman’s car as it exited the parking lot without a turn signal. The car pulled into Woodlawn Cemetery, and police pulled the car over. Police reported that the driver smelled of alcohol and there was vomit on the outside of the car door. The woman told police she was drinking beer at the cemetery on the one-year anniversary of her nephew’s death. The woman showed multiple signs of intoxication during field sobriety tests. During the tests, police asked the passenger of the car multiple times to exit the vehicle, and he refused. After police threatened to taze him, police removed him from the car and handcuffed him. He was charged with three counts of resisting an officer. The woman was placed into custody and charged with failing to signal, driving under the influence of alcohol and operating an uninsured motor vehicle.
Criminal damage to property
Just before 2 a.m. on July 11, a man held in custody — because he resisted police as a passenger in a car where the driver was charged for a DUI hours earlier — in one of the Forest Park Police Department cells clogged the sink drain “with toilet paper and other unknown items,” according to the police report. The man flooded his cell and caused water damage in other areas on the police department, including the women’s locker room wall, plus the ceiling and a wall in the basement hallway. Police reported the damage to Sal Stella, head of the public works department, who estimated the cost of damage to be $1,285. The man was charged with criminal damage to government supported property and given a court date before being released, due to the non-discretionary pretrial release conditions…