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Orland Hills Police Blotter: Woman Says She Was Forced to Steal at Gunpoint

Orland Hills police reports, Aug. 10-29

MONDAY, AUG. 29

Maintenance Man Shoved

Valecia A. Gill, 49, of the 9200 block of Hunter Court in Orland Hills, was charged with battery. Police said Gill shoved a maintenance man around 4 p.m. at the door of her apartment. The maintenance man told police he knocked several times, announced his presence twice and then entered to let in an exterminator. According to the report, Gill told police that she became upset and shoved the man because he entered while she was in the middle of dressing.

FRIDAY, AUG. 26

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Domestic Battery

Andrew J. Ryder, 62, of the 16700 block of 90th Avenue in Orland Hills, was charged with domestic battery. Police said they were called to Ryder’s home around 11:15 p.m. about a possible altercation and found a woman bleeding from her mouth. According to the report, Ryder told police he got into an argument with the woman about drinking and pushed her out of the doorway, causing her to strike her face on the floor.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 10

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Woman Says She Was Forced to Steal at Gunpoint

Kristy L. Goodwin, 32, of the 1400 block of Wood Street in Crete, was charged with felony retail theft. The manager at a hardware store in the 9500 block of 167th Street told police around 3:45 p.m. that a woman left the store without paying for several spools of insulated cooper wire. He gave police a description of the woman and the license plate number of her car. Police spotted and stopped the car in the 7600 block of 167th Street approximately three hours later and questioned Goodwin.

According to the report, Goodwin told police that she was ordered to steal the wire by a man named “Dolph,” who “held a gun to her just prior to the theft, threatening that she would not see her mother again if she failed to carry out his order.” The wire, valued at $964, was not recovered. Goodwin told police she gave it to “Dolph” shortly after the theft.

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