Police responded to an address on Des Plaines Avenue on Nov. 28 after two separate callers said a man pointed a gun at them while they were in their cars. Police located a man matching the offender’s description near Hannah Avenue and Madison Street, where they detained him. In his pocket, they found a lighter shaped like a handgun. Police reported that the man threatened them and their families several times and spoke nonsensically, so police thought he was having a mental health crisis. They contacted a social worker at Ascension Health, but the man refused social services. He was charged with aggravated assault.
Battery
Police responded to Mugsy’s Tavern on Madison Street just after midnight on Nov. 24 for a battery. A woman told police that she was slapped by an unknown man in the bar after she was arguing with the bartender. Bar staff told police that the man left through the back exit. Police found a man matching his description and told him to stop while he tried to enter a nearby apartment, which he initially ignored. Though the woman said she wanted to sign complaints against the man, when they went to the bar to ask her to identify the him, she was no longer there. Bar staff showed police video of the incident, which shows the woman in a verbal altercation with a bartender before the man slaps her twice. At the time of the police report, the man had been released pending further investigation and was not charged…