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The following items were taken from police and court reports and news releases. An arrest does not constitute a finding of guilt.

MAN SHOT: A 24-year-old Joliet man was ambushed by a group of unknown people in the parking lot of a children’s indoor playground Saturday evening and later pronounced dead of multiple gunshot wounds, police said. Witnesses said the group shot the man several times just before 5:30 p.m. before fleeing from My Kidzplay on the 4800 block of 111th St., heading eastbound in a silver BMW and a Jeep Compass, police said. Officers were on the scene, providing first aid to the victim within two minutes of the call, police said.

Police said Trevale Robinson appeared to have been targeted and that no one else was injured. Anyone with information about the attack should call the Alsip Police tip line at 708-385-6902, ext.

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SMOTHERING CHARGED: A Crete man has been charged with aggravated domestic battery, according to Will County Circuit Court records online. Christopher Ross, 32, 3500 block of Jacqueline Drive, punched a woman in the back of her head, pinned her to the bed and used his elbow to choke her during a March 31 incident in that block, police said.

The 6-foot-tall, 195-pound Ross also placed his hand over the victim’s mouth, “causing breathing distress,” police said. He made his first court appearance Tuesday and is free on £20,000 bond with the stipulation he have no contact with the woman or her residence, according to circuit court records online.

BUNGLED BURGLARY: A Park Forest man who broke into a home in the Williamsburg Place subdivision made an abrupt and empty-handed exit, thanks to an observant neighbor, police said. “A neighbor observed (the) offender stacking chairs and climbing into (the) window” of the home in the 2400 block of Liberty Drive the evening of March 24, police said. Officers responding to the neighbor’s call saw Kendell J.

Sledge, 30, 100 block of Hemlock Street, running from the house around 9:30 p.m., police said. Sledge, who fit the neighbor’s description, didn’t respond to commands to stop and the officers apprehended him in a wooded area nearby, police said. Sledge is charged with residential burglary and free on £5,000 bond, according to Will County Circuit Court and sheriff’s records online. Advertisement

STRANGULATION ALLEGED: A Homer Glen man who allegedly tried to strangle a woman has been charged with two counts of aggravated domestic battery, a felony, and three counts of domestic battery, according to Will County Circuit Court records online.

Will County sheriff’s deputies took Michael Willis, 49, 16000 block of Josef Drive, into custody the evening of March 10 in that block, police said. Willis is free on £20,000 bond with the stipulation he have no contact with the woman or her home, and is scheduled to return to court April 25, according sheriff’s and circuit court records online.

LOCKOUT: An Amazon employee who was locked out of her car when she got off work March 27 learned from police responding to help that her car was reported stolen out of Oak Forest. Police said the woman produced a document showing she’d purchased the vehicle from a car repair man in Markham.

The car and investigation were turned over to Oak Forest police.

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ILLEGAL GUN: A New Lenox man is scheduled to return to Will County Circuit Court April 19 on three gun related felony charges stemming from a March 26 incident in the 1100 block of Grandview Drive. Relatives told officers responding to the home at 1:30 a.m. that Angelo Lujano-Pagliuca, 23, had pointed a .380 caliber handgun at them during a domestic dispute and had also fired it outside, police said. Officers determined Lujano-Pagliuca was unarmed, found three spent .380 casings in the home and later recovered an unloaded .380 caliber handgun, police said. Lujano-Pagliuca is charged with two counts of being a felon illegally possessing a firearm and one count of illegally discharging a firearm, according to court online records.

He remained in the Will County Adult Detention Facility Wednesday in lieu of £100,000 bond, according to sheriff’s records online.

FINANCIAL CRIME: A Chicago woman made her first appearance in Will County court Friday on several felony charges stemming from a Feb.

27, 2015 incident related to gift cards, according to circuit court records online. Dominisha M. Banks, 31, was taken into custody March 30 on an 8-year-old arrest warrant and charged with continuing a financial criminal enterprise, possessing a counterfeit credit/debit card and burglary — all felonies, according to circuit court records online. Banks’ initial contact with officers occurred during a traffic stop in the Walmart parking lot, 501 E.

Lincoln Highway, police said. The officers noted “numerous gift cards strewn about the interior of the vehicle” and subsequently determined that “many of the gift cards were fraudulently re-encoded,” police said. One month later, the felony charges were filed and arrest warrants issued against Banks and a second woman, who entered a negotiated plea of guilty to possessing a counterfeit credit/debit card in 2019. Banks remained in the Will County Adult Detention Facility Wednesday in lieu of £250,000 bond, according to Will County sheriff’s records online.

GUNSHOT DETECTOR: The Oak Forest Police Department is rolling out an audio detection system in an area equivalent to one-square mile along the city’s main corridors, according to a village report. The system will be able to detect gunshots, glass breakage and squealing tires. “In total, 64 units will be installed at no cost to the police department as part of a one year, trial program offered by Flock Safety, a public safety operating system that helps law enforcement agencies in thousands of communities work together to stop crime,” the report said.

SCHOOL BATTERY: A Chicago woman who allegedly attacked a security officer at Bloom Trail High School on Valentine’s Day is scheduled to return to Cook County court in Markham Wednesday on a charge of aggravated battery/school employee, according to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.

Sharvae Howard, 35, was taken into custody March 27 on an arrest warrant, police said. In addition to the felony battery charge, Howard is charged with disorderly conduct and criminally damaging government property, police said. Howard is free on £20,000 bond, according to the state’s attorney’s office and Cook County Jail records.

BATTERY TO POLICE: A 35-year-old University Park man who allegedly kicked an officer while resisting arrest is scheduled to return to Cook County court in Markham Wednesday, according to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office.

Velar Mayfield IV, 700 block of Wright Road, was taken into custody March 25 in front of the Signature Sports Bar & Grill, 3215 Union Ave., after he “kicked over evidence markers, contaminating the crime scene,” police said. Mayfield was part of a large crowd encountered outside the entrance by Steger, Crete and South Chicago Heights officers responding to a report of shots fired at the bar, police said. Members of the crowd told officers, “They were shooting for a celebration,” police said. Mayfield, charged with aggravated battery/peace officer and resisting arrest, is free on £10,000 bond, the state’s attorney’s office said.

BATTERY TO POLICE: A Peoria man who claimed to be a Moroccan ambassador was stopped March 25 at 183rd Street and Harlem Avenue because the vehicle he was driving bore a “Moorish Nobility” license plate that was “not even remotely similar” to a legitimate diplomatic plate, police said. Michael A.

Jackson, 57, was subsequently arrested and accused of possessing a stolen motor vehicle title, injuring two officers in the process, police said. They said Jackson refused to roll down the window or unlock the door of the 2007 Cadillac he’d been driving, prompting officers to break the window during the traffic stop, police said. Jackson grappled with officers as they attempted to extricate him from the vehicle, put him into the rear of a squad car, alternatively put him into a prisoner van and finally book him into the Will County Adult Detention Facility, police said.

Jackson is charged with two counts of aggravated battery to an officer, possession of a stolen title/certificate/plate, criminally damaging property and obstructing police, according to Will County Circuit Court records online. Jackson, released on a £10,000 bond, failed to return to court on March 29, according to court records online. Advertisement

CHOKING ALLEGED: A South Chicago Heights man who allegedly abused a woman at her home over a two-day period is scheduled to return to Will County Circuit Court April 19 on three felony charges, six counts of domestic battery and a misdemeanor aggravated battery charge, according to court records online.

University Park police arrested Willie Banks, 46, 3300 block of Commercial Avenue, the morning of March 26 in connection with the alleged March 24 and 25 incidents in the 700 block of Burnham Drive, according to Will County sheriff’s and circuit court records online.

He is charged with two counts of being a felon possessing a firearm and aggravated assault, according to court records online.

He is free on a £10,000 bond with the stipulation he have no contact with the victim or her home, according to court and sheriff’s records online.