CHPD Arrests Alleged Home Invader Hours After Prison Release From Bolingbrook Arrest

Clarendon Hills police officers arrested a man who unlawfully entered a home on the 400 block of Colfax Avenue around 2 a.m. Wednesday morning, nine hours after the suspect had been released from prison, Clarendon Hills Police Chief Ted Jenkins said.  

Korey Blackwood, 30, of Des Plaines, was taken into custody by Clarendon Hills police after he was "controlled" by a male resident of the broken-into home, Jenkins said. The intruder was not armed. At 5 p.m. Tuesday, Blackwood had been released from the Mount Sterling Correctional Facility, which is west of Springfield.

Jenkins said police found an Amtrak ticket and Metra ticket on Blackwood when he was arrested. The suspect claimed he was lost and that the home was his girlfriend's, Jenkins said.

"There was no reason for him to be in the house," Jenkins said. "He did not know the people; the people did not know him."

Blackwood was charged with criminal trespass to a residence, a Class 4 felony, and transported to the DuPage County Jail.

Jenkins did not know the nature of the crime that led to Blackwood's incarceration, but the chief said it was for a crime out of .

An email from Mike Rompa of the said his department charged a registered sex offender named Korey Blackwood with living near a playground after the suspect was arrested on Feb. 8, 2010, for exposing himself to a female victim in a Bolingbrook stairwell. 

The State of Illinois' sex offender database has a file on a man named Korey Blackwood who has the same birthday as the man arrested Wednesday in Clarendon Hills. The Blackwood in that file has prior convictions of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a victim under 13 years old and residing within 500 feet of a playground. 

A release from the  sent out Wednesday reminded residents to lock all doors and windows to their homes when possible to protect against theft and trespass.