Albino Damian-Lopez (law enforcement photo).
Cook County Sheriff’s police and Palatine firefighter/paramedics responded about 11:55 PM Saturday to a fight with a man injured in the block of 1500 Norway Palatine, IL. Police received a report that a man named Albino Damian-Lopez, age 24, hit a man in the face with a baseball bat during an argument in unincorporated Palatine Township. Police also learned that Damian-Lopez then hit the victim a second time, and fled on foot.
Palatine firefighter/paramedics transported the male victim, age 27, to a local hospital with serious injuries to his left eye and face, according to Cook County Sheriff’s police.
Also, a witness reported Palatine police were searching in the area of Ports O’ Call and Rand Road about 10:30 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. Saturday, but Palatine police did not confirm any significant event at that time or location.
Damian-Lopez turned himself in at the Cook County Sheriff’s Police Headquarters in Maywood on Sunday and was arrested and charged with aggravated battery. Damian-Lopez appeared in court Tuesday. His bond was set at $125,000, and his next court date is scheduled for September 5, 2013 at the Cook County Circuit Courthouse in Rolling Meadows.
Map of area of aggravated battery at in unincorporated Palatine Township …
Cardinal Note: As of June 5, 2013 — up to and including the date of this article — police incidents related to the above police agency are not reported in real time or within a prompt time period. Police protecting their realm of investigation and police activity, have chosen to use encrypted radios to withhold their police communications, which were previously open to the public and news media via monitoring of public safety scanning radios — with no known negative results locally.
The delayed knowledge or entirely blacked out knowledge resulting from encrypted police communications may protect certain police operations and investigations, but it also puts the public at risk in situations such as when armed and dangerous offenders are at large and when other similar situations occur. In other cases, the delayed or blacked out information inhibits or prohibits the possibility of the public providing early witness accounts before a criminal trail goes cold. Citizens are much more likely to recognize or recall suspicious or criminal activity if they are aware of the criminal incident within minutes or hours of its occurrence. The most serious incident involving dire results would be a trail that is allowed to go cold in the case of child abduction.
The lack of real time information from public police dispatch also weakens an effective neighborhood watch program mostly working to prevent property loss, but also working to prevent possible violent crimes.
Police have alternate ways to transmit tactical, operational or investigative information, while still keeping their main public dispatch channels open for the best balance of public safety and police safety.
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