A security guard on shift at a McDonald’s found himself in a tight situation when he was tasked with dispersing a mob of teenagers at the restaurant.

At around 10:30 p.m. on March 26, a group of about 30 teenagers entered the McDonald’s on the 600 block of North Clark Street and began disrupting the establishment. The security guard, an off-duty Melrose Park police officer, told police that when he tried to direct the crowd out of the restaurant, one of the offenders attempted to remove the gun from his holster.

“Take the gun off po po and step outside. I’ll kick your ass,” said the offender, believed to be between 15 and 18 years old, according to the guard. The guard then went outside and flagged down a passing Chicago police squad car, at which point the group fled from the restaurant in a southbound direction.

On the evening of March 26, police found that someone had thrown a large rock through the glass front door of a church at 929 N. Dearborn St. The building, which was recently sold to Rolling Meadows-based mega-church Harvest Bible Chapel, is currently vacant.

Police arrested Steven L. Lucas, of Evanston, for illegally soliciting donations while impersonating a representative from the American Cancer Society on the afternoon of March 26.

A police sergeant grew suspicious when Lucas, 44, asked him for a donation, explaining that he was collecting money for the organization on behalf of DePaul University.

A field interview revealed that the suspect had no affiliation with the group. Police then arrested Lucas, who said he was only trying to make a buck. The incident occurred in a parking lot on the 1200 block of North Clark Street at around 3 p.m. on March 26.

After drawing $20 from an ATM on the 400 block of North La Salle Drive, a Weymouth, Ill. man found that his debit card had been stolen and that $652 in unauthorized charges had been made to his account. The man told police that he had suspected that someone was looking over his shoulder while he was making the withdrawal at 3 a.m. on March 24.

A man made a mistake when he invited a stranger into his hotel room in the early hours of March 26. The victim, a 37-year-old man, was walking on the 1530 block of North Wells Street when a woman named Theresa approached him and asked for directions to a hotel.

The man offered to show her the way, and eventually invited her to his room at the hotel, the man told police. At this point, the woman became aggressive and began grabbing his crotch, he said, and when he refused her advances she got angry and produced a knife from her purse.

The man attempted to call the front desk, but the woman snatched the cord from the phone and took the man’s wallet and iPhone before running into the hall. A brief struggle followed, but in the end the woman was able to escape with the man’s belongings.

An 18-year-old woman from Ohio told police that she lost $4,200 in cash when an unknown female suspect grabbed her purse while she was walking on 700 block of North Rush Street. The incident occurred on the afternoon of March 22.