Wm. B. Sullivan Realty & Co.
Estate Planning and General Law

RAVINIA
"A Great time in a
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Wednesday, December 8th

Two neighbors from the 2300 block of North Mannheim Road, in Melrose Park, came to Oak Park but left their thinking caps back in Elementary School.  Cassandra Lavold drove the car while Diego Garcia used his brain muscles to steal a purse from a woman using an automatic pistol. 

There were two women on the street in the Art's district (located at Harrison and Lombard), just a few blocks from the Police department and an area often seeing police cars coming and going, where the armed robbery occurred at about 3:30 p.m..  An Oak Park resident driving home from work witnessed the event and followed the fleeing vehicle while calling the police on his cell phone.  The police responded quickly and Oak Park, Forest Park, River Forest, and State Police all took action.

The two criminals drove down Harrison and planned to go home with their booty, but they were still being followed by the Goodsamaritan from Oak Park.  Diego Garcia got out of the car when they had to stopped before Harlem Avenue and fired a single bullet at the Oak Park resident.  The bullet missed hitting the man and the spent cartridge fell to the street.

Police had already started to close in on the suspects with a dozen cars in the area.  Cassandra Lavold driving the car had not bothered to fill the tank in sometime and when the Melrose Park couple got back on the expressway at Harlem to leave the area and say good-bye to all the police, their plate had already been recorded by the dispatcher and their car ran out of gas at DesPlaines avenue on the 290.  They were forced to give up their run after crashing into a police car and having no fuel in the gas tank, and they also forgot their invisibility cloak.

No drugs were found in the car and Oak Park police arrested the two adults.  The female victim was transported by the police to give a positive ID of the couple and they were taken into custody.