An elderly woman was among the victims of a brawl that broke out in the 1600 block of North Orchard Street the night of May 10.

Witnesses told police that, at around 10:30 p.m., approximately 20 individuals engaged in a fight behind an apartment complex on the street. Over the course of the mêlée, offenders reportedly pulled decorative garden bricks from a neighboring yard and began hurling the stones at each other.

One of the offenders threw a brick through the window of a nearby home, striking a 71-year-old woman on the leg. Another resident told police that the side of his car had been damaged by a stray projectile. Police were unable to track down the fighters, including one offender who witnesses said was taken away by an ambulance.

Instructors at Oscar Mayer Elementary, 2250 N. Clifton Ave., reported that a stash of iPod Touches had been stolen from the school over the past week. On the morning of May 11, a tech consultant doing a maintenance check in the school’s computer lab noticed that 29 iPods, totaling a value of $9,000, had been taken from the room.

The devices, which had been stored in a locked cart, were last seen on May 3, said a lab instructor. The school’s administration is conducting an internal investigation into the matter.

According to a Chicago Police community alert, at approximately 8:45 a.m. on April 25, a man tried to abduct an 8-year-old girl in the 600 block of West Kemper Place.

The offender, a white male with strawberry blond hair believed to weigh 250 pounds, approached the girl and asked her to come with him. The girl asked him for the secret password, which the offender the unable to relay, at which point the girl rain away from him.

The man did not attempt to touch the child, according to the report. Anyone with information about this incident should call the Area 3 Detectives at 312-744-8200.

A man living in the 2000 block of North Magnolia Street told police that his car, a white 2004 Toyota Land Cruiser, had been taken from his garage sometime between the late evening of May 9 and the following morning.

A 28-year-old man was stabbed during a scuffle on Chicago Housing Authority property just after midnight on May 13.

The victim was engaged in fight at a parking lot in the 500 block of West Locust Street when, he told police, an unknown attacker ran up and stabbed him in the back. The man was transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he was reported to be in stable condition.

Police arrested Jerome Grant, an employee of the A. Finkl & Sons steel mill, on suspicion of theft of material from the company on the morning of May 14.

A security guard at A. Finkl, located at 2011 N. Southport Ave., told police that Grant, of the 6500 block of South Sangamon Street, and another suspect had been seen attempting to remove a raw piece of steel from the complex’s parking lot at 1958 N. Kingsbury.

Grant, 52, was detained, but his accomplice was able to escape before officers arrived at the scene. The steel was valued at $400.