On Thursday August 20, 2015 at approximately 10:40 p.m., an adult female was sexually assaulted by an unknown offender inside her residence at the Church Creek extended care facility near Central Road and Dwyer Avenue. Preliminary investigation indicates that entry was made through an unsecured window. The victim was transported to Northwest Community Hospital where she is being treated.
The Arlington Heights Police Department is actively investigating this incident.
The suspect is described as a male with no other descriptors available.
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The public is urged to contact the Arlington Heights Police Department at 847-368-5300 with any information that may help in solving this crime.
Citizens are reminded that crime information can also be submitted anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 847/590-STOP or via their website at ahcrimestoppers.org. Tips can be phoned, emailed or texted.
Crime Stoppers will pay a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible for this crime.
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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