Public Safety
A Villa Park woman was pulled from her burning home in the 400 block of North Bierman Avenue on Oct. 4 and transferred to Loyola University Medical Center in critical condition after she reportedly went deeper into the house to retrieve her dog, which did not survive. Elmhurst and Oak Brook Terrace firefighters were among the mutual-aid crews that responded.
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Two women face burglary and retail theft charges after an Elmhurst police officer helped stop an 82-mph chase on I-290 following a nearly $1,700 theft from a Naperville Alo Yoga store on Oct. 19.
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Elmhurst police arrested Kimberly Plummer, 33, on burglary and retail theft charges at Kohl's on Route 83 and responded to a 2:30 a.m. trespass in the 800 block of South Stratford Avenue during the week of July 21, 2026, while also logging financial fraud and social media scam reports.
Public Safety
About 75 Elmhurst and mutual aid officers and firefighters searched the east and west stone quarry zones near West Avenue on Thursday, July 23, using sonar, an underwater drone, and K-9s in a major escalation of the hunt for missing 28-year-old Gabriel De Sagun.
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Kimberly Plummer, 33, of Park Forest was arrested Tuesday, July 21, on felony burglary and retail theft charges tied to a July 11 clothing theft at the Kohl's on Route 83; separately, a man was caught on a resident's security camera walking onto her South Stratford Avenue property at 2:30 a.m. the same night.
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