Nowhere to Hide
An officer parked at Burbank Circle observed a subject skateboarding past him at 6:30 p.m. April 19 and identified the man as Thomas Dunaway, 32, and knew he had two outstanding warrants.
The officer attempted to stop the man and asked him to sit on the curb when Dunaway said, “F*** this,” and escaped on foot towards Slater Street.
An SRPD canine unit arrived on scene to conduct a search and found Dunaway hiding in the crawl space of a residence on Slater Street.
Dunaway came out willingly and the officer arrested him.
Man on the Run
A patroling officer was monitoring the SRPD channel when he was advised of a robbery nearby at 11:45 p.m April 19.
The officer proceeded to survey the area when he observed four subjects at Humboldt Park.
He got out to question them to see if any of them were the robbery suspect when one took off running through an alley.
District Police set a perimeter and arrested the subject, Joseph Thomson, 35.
Thomson exhibited signs of intoxication but was not involved in the robbery.
Drunk and Disorderly
District Police received a call from the Bertolini Student Center around 10:30 a.m. April 16 about a man causing a disturbance and being described as drunk.
Officers responded within minutes and saw the man walking along Elliott Avenue at an unsteady gait and exhibiting bizarre behavior.
Officers stopped the man, Michael Lake, 49, who was incoherent, uncooperative and soon argumentative. When the officers placed Lake in handcuffs he tensed up and struggled to resist arrest and continued acting bizarrely and uncooperative.
Lake was in such a state of intoxication that he was first taken to the hospital and then to jail.