March Crime Report: Home Burglary, Morphine Theft

Editor's note: Every day this week, we're running a breakdown of crime statistics for each month of 2011, January to April, because the New Lenox Police Department recently released its monthly reports.

New Lenox Police made six felony arrests in March, according to monthly statistics released last week by the department.

The monthly crime reports detail types of crime, how they compare to the previous year and months and other notable information. To see the full report for March, click on the PDF to the right of this article.

To this point in 2011, thefts are up from 2010, and there are slightly more burglaries. A couple cases of interest that occurred this March included one of each.

A man on the 100 block of Towncrest Drive called police and said a friend of his daughter punched him in the face and stole morphine from the home. Police say that shortly before 9:30 p.m., Daniel Healy, 18, of Orland Park, came to the home and appeared intoxicated. Healy took a bottle of prescription medicine and punched the victim in the face when the victim tried to stop him, police said. Healy fled from the scene, and police were able to track him down and arrest him. He was taken to Will County Jail and charges were preferred to the State Attorney's Office.

Additionally, police caught on Feb. 23. A man came home and heard noises in his basement, and when he went to investigate he saw someone leave through a window. There was copper piping torn out of his walls but none was stolen.

Here's full breakdown of crime in New Lenox for March:

Crime

Robbery