Shortly after I arrived home tonight, a swarm of police cars and a sheriff's helicopter converged upon my street, officers in squad cars from my town of Munster and the neighboring towns of Highland, IN and Lansing, IL. There were officers on foot running back and forth down the street and in the neighboring schoolyard, intently looking for someone. It appeared that they had captured someone at the end of the block where there were about 5 or 6 squads with lights on, but others on foot continued searching, Lake County Sheriff helicopter circling overhead for about 20 minutes.
I posted something about the commotion on Facebook, after which a friend of mine whose son lives in Lansing, happened to see my FB post. He then called and told me that his son got a very close view some of the events that preceded the police activity on my street. I don't know too much about what happened, but this is what I do know.
On my way home from work, I was driving down one of the main north-south streets through town, Hohman Avenue, same as I do every work night on the way home. About one block further south from where I turn off is a main east-west street through town, called Ridge Road. From where I turned, I could see a lot of police activity at the Ridge-Hohman intersection, one block south, maybe 5 or 6 police cars with lights on. Shortly after that, about 5 minutes after I got home, I noticed the Lake County Sheriff's helicopter circling overhead getting lower and lower until it was almost directly over my house.
The police activity at Ridge and Hohman was apparently the result of a hit-and-run crash caused by a stolen car, I don't know if the police were chasing it when the crash occurred. The stolen car continued down Ridge road and until it crashed into a building down the street in Lansing, Illinois. A Munster officer followed to the crash, then chased the guy on foot and tackled him and got into a scuffle / wrestling match. That happened either in the yard of my friend's son, or in a neighboring yard. The officer asked for help at which point my friends son laid a pretty devastating blow to the head of the bad guy, and then the cop knocked the crap out of him too. That guy will be recovering from a doozy of a headache tonight in jail. Apparently there was a another guy in the stolen car who ran away on foot, back toward Munster, and apparently ended up at the north end of my street where officers now pursuing from Lansing, IL, Munster, IN and Highland, IN all converged. Whether they captured the guy I don't know. The helicopter either touched down on the grass at the end of the block, or if not, it got so low to the ground that the houses at the end of my street blocked my view of it. I'm sure it will be on the news shortly. I'll be watching tonight.
Hasn't been so much excitement on my block since the flood of 2008.
I posted something about the commotion on Facebook, after which a friend of mine whose son lives in Lansing, happened to see my FB post. He then called and told me that his son got a very close view some of the events that preceded the police activity on my street. I don't know too much about what happened, but this is what I do know.
On my way home from work, I was driving down one of the main north-south streets through town, Hohman Avenue, same as I do every work night on the way home. About one block further south from where I turn off is a main east-west street through town, called Ridge Road. From where I turned, I could see a lot of police activity at the Ridge-Hohman intersection, one block south, maybe 5 or 6 police cars with lights on. Shortly after that, about 5 minutes after I got home, I noticed the Lake County Sheriff's helicopter circling overhead getting lower and lower until it was almost directly over my house.
The police activity at Ridge and Hohman was apparently the result of a hit-and-run crash caused by a stolen car, I don't know if the police were chasing it when the crash occurred. The stolen car continued down Ridge road and until it crashed into a building down the street in Lansing, Illinois. A Munster officer followed to the crash, then chased the guy on foot and tackled him and got into a scuffle / wrestling match. That happened either in the yard of my friend's son, or in a neighboring yard. The officer asked for help at which point my friends son laid a pretty devastating blow to the head of the bad guy, and then the cop knocked the crap out of him too. That guy will be recovering from a doozy of a headache tonight in jail. Apparently there was a another guy in the stolen car who ran away on foot, back toward Munster, and apparently ended up at the north end of my street where officers now pursuing from Lansing, IL, Munster, IN and Highland, IN all converged. Whether they captured the guy I don't know. The helicopter either touched down on the grass at the end of the block, or if not, it got so low to the ground that the houses at the end of my street blocked my view of it. I'm sure it will be on the news shortly. I'll be watching tonight.
Hasn't been so much excitement on my block since the flood of 2008.
