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Newspaper
Matteson Star
Location
Matteson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1993
Page
5
Police say a window in a home on the 100 block of Shab bona Drive was blasted out by shots from a drive-by incident around 11 31 p m on Thursday night. Witnesses saw a small white car speeding away. Five minutes earlier police had received reports of shots on another block of Shabbana Drive. The case remains under investigation.
An 18-year-old Markham man and two juveniles were arrested after police found a stolen car Saturday near 175th Street and Dixie Highway following a license plate check. Michael Brooks of 16405 S. Oxford Dr. faced criminal trespass charges. The two juveniles, a 16-year-old Hazel Crest boy and a 14-year-old Markham boy, were released to their parents.
Sharon McCown 36 filed charges against John McCown 56 after he allegedly struck her with a baseball bat on July 7 at the Hazel Crest home. He was arrested Saturday before 9 am. bond set at $200,000 in 6th District Court. Police reported severed injuries and hospital treatment. An air compressor and battery charger were stolen from a paving company shed nearby.
A television set was stolen Monday from a home in the 17600 block of Oakwood Drive. The burglary occurred between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. with no one home. Entry was made through a rear window, police reported.
Crete resident Steven E. Prestone, 47, of Burville Road, was arrested for allegedly soliciting two boys for sexual acts in late June and early July. He faces two felony counts of indecent solicitation of a child under 13 and one misdemeanor count for a minor sex act. Bond set at $30,000. Sheriff Fitzgerald commends cooperating parents and asks anyone with information to call 672-5304.
A Palos Heights resident and former Crestwood police officer was sentenced to twenty years after pleading guilty to seven counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault involving a girl over eight years. Mark Benson, 36, entered a blind plea with no sentence deal, saying the abuse began when the girl was six and continued until she was fourteen. He described personal childhood abuse and claimed psychiatric diagnosis as a pedophile since release on bond.
A Markham woman driving north on Halsted Street near 190th Street in Homewood crossed the median and struck a southbound car driven by an East Hazel Crest man. The collision occurred about 3 a.m. injuring two people, Tina Gil- was named in the police report.
Will County Sheriff's police arrested Vincent Chandler a 27 year old man as a suspect in the bludgeoning death of his 74 year old mother Mattie Chandler. Her body was found July 6 in Spring Creek near Farrell Road New Lenox Township. Evidence from the residence car and surrounding property led to his arrest on a no bond warrant in the Will County Jail. Mattie and her late husband Nathaniel were longtime Fairmont community activists.
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