Suspicious man on bike near veterans home, Merrillville IN
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Suspicious PersonAccording to the dispatch call, a suspicious man on a bicycle was reported near the veterans home and Books A Million in Merrillville. The man was involved in a shoplifting incident nearby.
Audio|Heard on: Lake County Public Safety
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03:8
Transcript:
00:00
The call notes say he was in the veterans home when I tried to shoot back at him.
00:03
What? No, with red or blue jacket.
00:06
Cut him off by sand.
00:10
Just riding the bike.
00:12
There's a lot of yelling going on.
00:15
Hey Matt, are we heading south?
00:17
1646, 1640.
00:19
1646,
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read back.
00:26
That's awesome.
00:27
Where is it? Copy, I'm 23.
00:29
What color jacket?
00:32
Blue jacket.
00:34
Okay.
00:35
Any available unit, we have a disturbance near Union Circle.
00:42
Three units heading towards the village.
00:44
Three states can be involved.
00:47
1647 and 1646, being disregarded.
00:49
We spoke to a gentleman in the back waiting up for words.
00:53
447 central.
00:54
Go ahead, Paul.
00:55
Six 631213.
00:57
Copy. I got a male in Tama Lodge on a bike going into the veterans home now.
01:02
Okay.
01:03
Go ahead.
01:04
Are you guys ten four there? Okay.
01:06
Three six.
01:08
The RP has her elderly neighbor at her residence.
01:11
She was locked out of her house two doors down by her adult daughter.
01:15
Six three and up from downtown.
01:17
Go ahead.
01:19
Yeah, we're ten four.
01:20
I'll be ten eight from the jail.
01:22
Ten five.
01:24
Maryville 359.
01:25
Clear, 358.
01:27
So is that white male with dreadlocks, blue jacket riding a bike?
01:32
You guys covert that there's subjects from the basket over by book.
01:39
Hiya, this was a white man.
01:41
He's at Books-A-Million.
01:43
Call two.
01:45
Yeah, he's on his bike too.
01:48
Ten four.
01:50
Currently, they don't have an updated location.
01:53
He's going to contact the mother.
01:55
She has a app that she was using.
01:58
I thought these are whenever this is changing.
02:01
Yeah, Merrillville just advised there's a subject matching that description in front of Books A Million on a bicycle.
02:08
Copy, thank you.
02:12
1620 Central, put me in 99 please.
02:15
That's our 447, you're on 27.
02:17
10-4, sir. Go ahead.
02:19
He'll be at Indiana (number withheld).
02:24
Copy.
02:29
He's pulling into the veteran singer right now.
02:31
One seven four is out with him.
02:37
You said he's at the veteran's home now?
02:39
Sorry, can you have twenty-seven?
02:42
Yeah, it's a black man, blue jacket, red backpack,
02:46
black bike and a green seat.
02:49
Go ahead.
02:50
I wrote my license.
02:51
We're coming back to you.
02:52
And what's up with working where?
02:54
Last name (name withheld), 1st name (name withheld).
02:58
(name withheld).
02:59
birth 0519 , 1990.
03:03
He has the mail that's involved in a shoplifting over by the veterans home.
03:06
Over by the veterans home?
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Location mentioned:
E 79th Ave, Merrillville, IN 46410
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