CTA train passenger stabbed with screwdriver during

A fight between passengers on a CTA Blue Line train at the Forest Park ter minal escalated to the point where a 46-year-old Chicago woman stabbed another woman with a flathead screwdriver, police have re por ted

Police were called to the ter minal on March 14 at 1:42 a.m. According to the police re port, both the victim and the alle ged attacker ag reed that the fight star ted after another passenger used the emergency knob to open the train car door – according to the victim, to let her get in. Pulling the knob automatically stops the train. The alle ged attacker yelled at the passenger to leave the knob alone. Both parties said they knew each other from riding the train.

The alle ged attacker, a Chicago woman, claimed that the victim attacked her, and she was merely defending herself. The victim claimed that the alle ged attacker pushed her first. Either way, the victim got stabbed near the eye.

The alle ged attacker was charged with one count of battery. The victim was taken to the Loyola Medical Center for treatment.

Employee charged with theft

A Forest Park Walmar t employee was charged with theft after alle gedly taking $700 from the cash re gister.

While the theft itself took place on March 3, at around 10:39 p.m., the employee, a 25-year-old Chicago woman, wasn’t arrested until March 15, after Walmar t completed its inter nal investigation.

The security camera video re por tedly showed the woman taking two re gister tills into the “money room” of fice, where she removed cash and tucked it between white sheets of paper. The employee then re port- edly into her - covered when Walmar t employees realized that one of the re gisters was $700 shor t.

Sewer cover thefts

Three sewer covers were stolen throughout Forest Park on March 18. The thefts took place in the alley behind a house in the 900 block of Elgin Avenue Two more sewer covers were missing from the 1000 block of Circle Avenue. Somebody also stole a sewer cover in nearby Oak Park, in the 900 block of Wisconsin Avenue

These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Forest Park Police De partment, March 12-18, and re present a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Unless otherwise indicated, anybody named in these re ports has only been charged with a crime. These cases have not been adjudicated.

Compiled by Igor Studenkov