Galesburg Police early Monday afternoon (December 12th) responded to the 600 block of South Chambers Street for a report of a burglary in progress. Dispatch informed police a 66-year-old woman returned home to find her house in disarray and her 45-year-old son was inside the house fighting with the male suspect. Police arrived and found the man beating the male suspect with a wooden bat and both subjects were detained.
According to police reports, the suspect, a 15-year-old Galesburg male, said he asked the homeowner for money and was turned away, so he went into the woman’s unlocked house after she left and tried to steal her phone. The teen was booked at the Knox County Jail and then transported to the Mary Davis Home and charged with Burglary to a residence.
The teen is the same individual WGIL reported, back on December 3rd, who broke into Greenwood Coins on Monmouth Boulevard and was charged with four counts of burglary.
