Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Charged with several felony counts of fleeing and eluding police, Justin Jachiemiec, 22, was recently arrested after his missed a court date and is being held without bail, officials said Tuesday, Oct. 30.
The case against the Orland Park man who called himself the " Orland Ghost Rider," for weaving in and out of traffic on his motorcyle to evade police and shooting videos of the encounters, will head to trial in November. Justin Jachimiec, 22, has been charged with several felony charges related to the incidents and has pleaded not guilty. Police caught up with him and arrested him last November; he has also been indicted on felony charges in the past related to resisting arrest and driving a stolen vehicle. Sign up for Orland Park Patch breaking news alerts. Jachimiec remains in custody on no bail after he missed his Oct. 4 court date and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Court records show he was taken into custody on Oct. 23. Cook …
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Orland Park police reports: Aug. 1-6
MONDAY, AUG. 6 Police pulled over a vehicle when the driver was seen not wearing a seat belt around 5:10 p.m. in the 9100 block of 151st Street. A warrant was found for a passenger in the car, police said. Torrin A. Caldwell, 25, of the 18200 block of Ravisloe Terrace in Country Club Hills, was arrested on a Cook County warrant for retail theft. Police on bikes were patrolling a parking lot in the 9200 block of 159th Street, when they saw a man sitting in the passenger seat of a car, looking down and he threw a piece of garbage out of the window, around 6:20 p.m. The man was quiet and trembling as police spoke with him, and he had a black pocketknife clipped to his belt, police said. When police asked the man to put his hands on the car, …
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Orland Park police reports, June 23-28
THURSDAY, JUNE 28 Police were called about a retail theft at Pandora’s Rack around 6:10 p.m. Store staff told police that the people responsible were driving away in a red pickup truck, police said. An officer saw a truck matching the description given and followed it, according to the report. The officer saw it drive through an intersection in the left-turn-only lane, and through a red light at LaGrange Road and 153rd Street, and again at LaGrange Road and 156th Street, police said. The truck was pulled over in the 15800 block of LaGrange Road, where store staff identified the driver and two passengers as the people responsible, according to the report. Staff said a woman was seeing taking a gold purse from a display and left the store …
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Orland Park police reports: June 18-27
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 Police were called about a retail theft at Toys R Us around 2:35 p.m. Security said a man was seen taking seven video games out of the packaging, placed them in his front waistband, dropped the packaging in a clothing area and left the store without paying, police said. A glass pipe with burnt marijuana and three glass vials with marijuana inside were also found on him, according to the report. The stolen items are worth $139.93, police said. Glenn L. Romans, 41, of the 5100 block of Waveland Avenue in Chicago, was charged with retail theft, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Robert L. Harn, 25, of the 9100 block of Orland Court in Orland Park, was arrested on a Palos Park failure-to-appear …
Friday, May 25, 2012
The Orland Park man couldn't make it to his Cook County court hearing on Thursday because he was sitting in McDonough County jail for breaking the terms of a bail posted in 2010.
Justin Jachimiec, the alleged wheelie-popping motorhead known better by the nickname “Orland Ghost Rider,” remained in McDonough County jail Thursday awaiting trial on more charges of fleeing and eluding authorities. His arrest in March, for allegedly having dodged and mocked Orland Park police officers on a stolen motorbike, violated the terms of his previous McDonough County bail. In November 2010, he was arrested in Macomb, Ill., and charged with reckless driving, criminal damage to property, DUI, unlawful consumption and three counts of aggravated fleeing and eluding. Trial on those charges is set to begin Tuesday, though John Farano, a one-time attorney of Jachimiec’s, said a plea deal reducing some of the charges to a misdemeanor may…
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Months after five YouTube videos were posted showing an Orland Park man weaving in and out of Orland Park traffic, speeding and taunting officers, police say they caught up to him.
A man who recklessly sped through Orland Park on his motorbike — shooting videos of himself dodging and mocking police that were later found online — was dubbed the "Orland Ghost Rider" on YouTube. But police say they eventually caught up with 22-year-old Justin J. Jachimiec, who sped through the streets wearing a helmet camera to record the videos, and now he's charged with three felony counts. Orland Park police were called on Nov. 19, 2011, about a motorcyclist riding recklessly near the 7300 block of Wheeler Drive. He was speeding, driving over lawns, cutting through traffic and disobeying stop signs before riding past an officer making a traffic stop, according to police. While driving past the traffic stop, he pulled his front wheel …
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Orland Park police reports: Feb. 20-28
TUESDAY, FEB. 28 Police were called about a retail theft at Dick’s Sporting Goods around 2:35 p.m. Store security said two women were seen taking North Face coats and leaving without paying, before getting into a white Chevy and driving away, according to the report. Police pulled over the Chevy in the 14700 block of LaGrange Road, and store security identified the driver and passenger as the two seen taking coats, police said. Officers found 10 North Face jackets in the car worth a total of $290. Patricia M. Rigsby, 21, of the 8200 block of South Ingleside Avenue in Chicago, was charged with retail theft. A juvenile girl was released to her parents. SATURDAY, FEB. 25 Police started following a vehicle after it made a wide right turn onto …
Monday, January 9, 2012
Orland Park police reports: Dec. 22-Jan 5
THURSDAY, JAN. 5 Police were called about a retail theft at Macy’s at an undisclosed time. Security recognized a man from a past retail theft, who left the store and got into an SUV before driving away, according to the report. The SUV crashed into a parked car while police were making a traffic stop on the vehicle, police said. Police found $170 worth of items from Macy’s in the SUV that were not paid for, according to the report. The driver, Joseph S. Nuttal, 32, of the 7200 block of South Vernon Avenue in Chicago, was charged with reckless driving, fleeing police, driving an uninsured vehicle and leaving the scene of a property damage accident. Michael D. Wafford, 45, of the 8600 block of South Elizabeth Street in Chicago, was charged …
Friday, July 22, 2011
Orland Park police reports, July 7-15
FRIDAY, JULY 15 Charles E. Turner, 28, of the 1600 block of 5th Avenue in Kankakee, was charged with theft, driving with a revoked license, driving without insurance, and driving with unlawful registration. Police were called to Kohl's, 3 Orland Park Place, around noon about a theft in progress. The officer stopped the suspect in the Toys ’R’ Us parking lot and found that the registration on Turner's vehicle was for another car, according to the report. Loss prevention at Kohl's identified a pair of shoes that had been stolen and found in Turner's car, police said. THURSDAY, JULY 14 Jessica N. Morgan, 18, of the 100 block of Meadow North Road in Bourbonnais, was charged with retail theft. Loss prevention at Old Navy, 105 Orland Park Place…
Friday, June 17, 2011
Orland Park officers were nearly hit by an irate woman in her car after her son was arrested in connection with a residential burglary.
Orland Park police officers had to dodge a vehicle driven by an irate woman while they were arresting her son on burglary charges. Officers were arresting a man near the corner of Lahinch Drive and Dunmurry Drive around 7:30 p.m. on May 21, in connection with an earlier residential burglary call. After Hasan A. Hadid, 18, was placed in a squad car, officers saw a black sports utility vehicle quickly back out of a driveway on Lahinch Drive and turn around to face the officers. The driver squealed her tires and revved the engine while driving in the direction of two officers, police said. The SUV swerved back and forth, nearly hitting the two officers, according to the report. The vehicle then drove away from the officers, before coming back…
Dr K
5:10 pm on Friday, April 5, 2013
hilarious seeing that video and how useless the Orland Park Police are more ›