Crime & Safety

Woman Sees Man Creeping Outside Patio

Downers Grove police investigate suspicious person at apartment complex.


Downers Grove police investigated a report of a suspicious person creeping outside of an apartment complex in the 4200 block of Saratoga Avenue.

According to the police report, the female callers said she was watching TV in her living room with the patio sliding window open when she spotted a black male walking along her patio around 4 p.m. July 23.

The woman told police that the male subject appeared to be walking very quickly in a slightly crouched fashion. A few seconds later, she heard rattling sound coming from the area of her patio.

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A short time later, the rattling stopped and the man quickly passed by her patio window again in the opposite direction and she did not see him again.

She secured her patio sliding door.

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Later in the evening around 11 p.m., she went to close her bedroom window but noticed that hand crank was lying on the interior window sill and called police.

The officer on the scene said the window screen appeared to be intact. He walked outside and could not locate any damage to the window. He attempted to shake the window in an effort to get the handle to fall off and it did not. However, he noticed if the window was shaken hard enough, the handle fell off.

The woman described the man as over six feet tall because she could see his head over the bushes, police said.

The man had a medium build, although she could not see his torso which was covered by the bushes. He was possibly in his 30s, and was wearing a green shirt, the woman told police.

She said she would notify management and neighbors of the incident. 


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