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An armed man in an orange safety vest robbed the Dollar Tree, 6226 Roosevelt Rd., at 9:01 p.m., March 1. While standing in the line to check out, the man pulled a handgun out of the front pocket of his sweatshirt, demanding money.

After the cashier put cash from the register into a plastic Dollar Tree shopping bag, the offender had the cashier and another employee open the safe in the back office. The two employees then proceeded to put cash from the safe into the same plastic shopping bag. 

The man left the store and fled in an unknown direction, carrying roughly $1,400 in stolen cash. He was last seen wearing cargo pants with a yellow-orange safety vest over a red jacket. Underneath the jacket, he wore a gray hooded sweatshirt.

Police reports describe the offender as a thin Black male, 28 to 32 years old and about 5-feet-7.

An Oak Park resident was ordered out of his vehicle by a man carrying a black handgun at 7:52 p.m., Feb. 28 in the 1000 block of Chicago Avenue. The offender fled the scene in the victim’s vehicle traveling eastbound on Chicago Avenue. State police recovered the vehicle with three suspects inside at 10:39 p.m. that night in the 4300 block of West Maypole Avenue. The investigation is ongoing. 

A gray 2017 Infiniti QX50, left running and unattended, was taken between 7:40 a.m. and 8:05 a.m., March 3 from the 1100 block of Randolph Street. Chicago police recovered the vehicle without apprehension at 12:21 p.m., March 6 in the 8500 block of South State Street in Chicago. 

The catalytic converter was removed from a green 2001 Honda Odyssey that was parked in the 500 block of South Cuyler Avenue between 12:45 a.m. and 7:45 a.m., March 1. 

These items, obtained from the Oak Park Police Department, came from reports, March 1-7, and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.