Schaumburg releases details on SWAT incident (Chicago Breaking News)

Schaumburg releases details on SWAT incident

April 27, 2009 4:24 PM
-- Staff report

An incident in a Schaumburg apartment complex that resulted in a SWAT team being called out early Saturday morning involved robbery, unlawful restraint, prostitution and illegal immigrants, police said today.

The story began when a 39-year-old Hanover Park man arrived at the Hanover Park police station about 1 a.m. Saturday and told police he had been robbed and bound by four armed people at an apartment in the 2300 block of Pennview Lane in Schaumburg. He also said other people had been tied up.

Schaumburg police were notified, and when they arrived at the scene, they saw activity in the apartment and called in the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System's Emergency Services Team, a SWAT team. The group entered the apartment about 4 a.m. and found one man, a 44-year-old Wheeling resident.

Schaumburg police believe that a prostitution ring involving illegal immigrants was operating in the apartment and that a group of armed men took over the location, robbing and detaining potential clients as they arrived.

The police said that in the three hours between the time the Hanover Park man escaped the apartment and they were called, the offenders and their victims fled.

Police spokesman Sgt. John Nebl said the man police found in the apartment is not considered a suspect or a victim in the case.

Both the Hanover Park and Wheeling men are undocumented and are in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for possible deportation, police said. The Schaumburg Police Department's Crime Free Multi-Housing unit is seeking to evict the apartment's residents.

No one else is in custody in the case and police are still investigating the incident.