The Arlington Heights Police Department has arrested three (3) people in connection with a string of residential burglaries that occurred over the past two months in the area of Lake Cook Road and Wilke Road in Arlington Heights. The offenders made entry through unsecured sliding glass doors of apartments and single family homes. Once inside the apartments, the offenders targeted electronic items and jewelry. The majority of the stolen items have been recovered and arrangements are being made to return the stolen property to the rightful owners. The investigation is ongoing, but it is believed the offenders are responsible for at least nine (9) residential burglaries and four (4) attempted residential burglaries in Arlington Heights.
Marlvin Hill, age 18, of 4067 Bonhill Drive — just west of the affected area was charged with two counts of residential burglary, and was held on $30,000 bond.
Also, two juvenile offenders were arrested and charged with residential burglary in connection with the investigation of multiple burglaries.
Arlington Heights Police Department did not release when the arrest or arrests occurred, where they occurred, or how the suspects were detected and captured. The suspects are believed to have been arrested at least two days ago.
IMPORTANT ALERT …
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 secret military-grade 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, such as when desperate offenders of property crimes are eluding police. 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.
Lack of real time information from police dispatch also delays public awareness or eliminates public awareness of general hazards and traffic or other situations in every day living in an otherwise economically thriving community.
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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