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12 | April 11, 2019 | the tinley Junction NEWS<br />
tinleyjunction.com<br />
Firefighter injured, Tinley Park home<br />
uninhabitable following garage blaze<br />
Bill Jones, Managing Editor<br />
A residential fire the evening of Thursday,<br />
April 4, in Tinley Park reportedly left<br />
a firefighter injured and the home uninhabitable.<br />
The Tinley Park Fire Department responded<br />
at 11:31 p.m. April 4 to a house<br />
fire in the 8000 block of Stonegate Drive,<br />
according to Tinley Park Fire Chief Forest<br />
F. Reeder. Crews arrived to find “heavy<br />
fire conditions” from the garage of the<br />
residence, which contained a single vehicle,<br />
Reeder explained in an email sent<br />
April 5 to The Tinley Junction.<br />
All occupants of the home were accounted<br />
for, and the fire was contained to<br />
the garage, Reeder said. But a firefighter<br />
reportedly was injured, transported to Silver<br />
Cross Hospital for evaluation, treated<br />
and released with a leg injury.<br />
The garage sustained “heavy” damage,<br />
and the home was rendered uninhabitable<br />
because of smoke damage, Reeder said.<br />
A damage estimate was not immediately<br />
available, he added.<br />
Investigators were reportedly working<br />
on the scene April 5, and the family was<br />
left under the care of neighbors and family,<br />
Reeder said.<br />
Tinley Park reportedly received assistance<br />
at the scene from the Frankfort<br />
and Mokena Fire Protection Districts, and<br />
Orland Fire Protection District and the<br />
Floosmoor Fire Department helped with<br />
station coverage.<br />
Low voter turnout in Cook and Will<br />
but Orland, Tinley outpace averages<br />
T.J. Kremer III, Contributing Editor<br />
From April 5<br />
Voters stayed home in large numbers<br />
for the April 2 elections. Of the 1.60 million<br />
registered voters in suburban Cook<br />
County and 439,720 in Will County, only<br />
223,757 and 57,092, respectively, showed<br />
up to the polls, according to data from the<br />
both county clerks’ offices. That marked<br />
just 14 percent of registered voters in suburban<br />
Cook and 12.98 percent in Will.<br />
According to John Pelissero, professor<br />
of political science at Loyola University<br />
in Chicago, voter turnout in this region<br />
typically hovers around 20 percent for<br />
municipal elections, such as the April 2<br />
one; however, Will County voters topped<br />
20 percent just once since 2005, accord-<br />
Numbers were low in the April 2 election. JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY MEDIA<br />
Please see turnout, 13<br />
Police Reports<br />
Man gets second DUI arrest in Tinley Park<br />
James Donnell Banks, 42, of the 300<br />
block of Jackson Avenue in Richton<br />
Park, was issued citations for improper<br />
lane usage, transport of alcoholic liquid<br />
in a motor vehicle and driving under the<br />
influence of alcohol March 29 after police<br />
were dispatched to a call of a possible<br />
DUI driver that stated there was a<br />
black Infiniti SUV that had exited from<br />
Interstate 80 to southbound Harlem Avenue<br />
and was swerving all over the road,<br />
according to the Tinley Park Police Department.<br />
According to the police report,<br />
Donnell stopped in the middle of the<br />
road approximately 200 feet before the<br />
intersection of Harlem and Oak Park Avenue<br />
before the office conducted a traffic<br />
stop. The officer smelled a strong odor of<br />
alcohol on Donnell’s breath, his eyes appeared<br />
glassy, bloodshot and watery and<br />
his speech was slurred, police said. Donnell<br />
reportedly refused to take standardized<br />
field sobriety tests. Donnell exited<br />
the vehicle and, according to the report,<br />
he had to use the driver’s side door for<br />
support in standing up and once he stood<br />
up, he was swaying. According to police,<br />
this is Banks’ second DUI arrest.<br />
March 31<br />
•Justin Anderson, 28, of the 600 block of<br />
Victoria Drive in Oak Forest, was issued<br />
citations for driving under the influence,<br />
driving under the influence with a blood<br />
alcohol content of .08, leaving the scene<br />
of a vehicle damage crash, improper<br />
lane usage and no lights when required<br />
after police officers responded to a hit<br />
and run crash in the area of 171st Street<br />
and Harlem Avenue before locating Anderson<br />
driving his vehicle and conducting<br />
a traffic stop following a description<br />
of the suspect by a witness who saw the<br />
hit and run crash, according to the Tinley<br />
Park Police Department. According<br />
to the report, the officer noticed Anderson’s<br />
speech was slurred and there was<br />
a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage<br />
on his breath. The officers observed that<br />
the front passenger side tire was severely<br />
damaged and flat and had appeared to<br />
be smoking from being hot. There was<br />
reportedly also damage to the front passenger<br />
side of the jeep and the passenger<br />
side tail light was broken and appeared<br />
to be hanging loose. It was later discovered<br />
that Anderson had a long island iced<br />
tea premixed cocktail can in his center<br />
console cup holder. Police asked Anderson<br />
to step out of the vehicle to perform<br />
field sobriety tests. Anderson was unable<br />
to perform the walk and turn test. Anderson<br />
later submitted to a breath testing<br />
that disclosed an alcohol concentration<br />
of .233.<br />
March 30<br />
•Kiara Allen, 22, of Chicago, was issued<br />
a citation for improper parking on<br />
the roadway and driving while license<br />
suspended, after police responded to a<br />
report of an intoxicated person in a vehicle<br />
which was stopped on the roadway<br />
on the 6900 block of 167th Street,<br />
according to the Tinley Park Police Department.<br />
According to the police report,<br />
Allen did not appear intoxicated and told<br />
police that she was in the passenger’s<br />
seat while a friend was driving the car<br />
and switched to the driver’s seat when<br />
she friend stopped the car, exited the car<br />
and was picked up and driven away by<br />
another friend.<br />
•Person(s) unknown stole $2,000 cash<br />
from the center console of a car parked<br />
in the driveway of a residence in the 800<br />
block of 174th Place in Tinley Park, according<br />
to the Tinley Park Police Department.<br />
According to the report, the man<br />
told police that the money was for earrings<br />
that a friend purchased from his<br />
family’s business.<br />
March 29<br />
•Dyamond Davis, 28, of the 1900 block<br />
of Heritage Drive in Tinley Park, was issued<br />
citations for speeding and having<br />
no valid driver’s license after police conducted<br />
a traffic stop when she was travelling<br />
38 mph in a posted 20 mph zone,<br />
according to the Tinley Park Police Department.<br />
According to the report, Davis’<br />
license expired on Feb. 27, 2017.<br />
•Dorothy Robinson, 39, of Merriville,<br />
Indiana, was issued two citations for<br />
speeding and driving while license suspended<br />
after police conducted a traffic<br />
stop when she was travelling 36 mph in<br />
a 20 mph zone, according to the Tinley<br />
Park Police Department. According to<br />
the police report, Robinson’s license had<br />
been suspended since 2018.<br />
Editor’s Note: The Tinley Junction’s police<br />
reports come from the Tinley Park Police<br />
Department. Anyone listed in these reports is<br />
considered to be innocent of all charges until<br />
proven guilty in a court of law.
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