Crime & Safety
Police: Man Threatened Cop and His Family
Elpedio Ponce, 41, 400 block Yorkshire Square, has been arrested and charged in the incident.
Police say they have caught the man that made threatening phone calls to a Bolingbrook Police officer and his family.
Elpedio Ponce, 41, 400 block Yorkshire Square, was arrested Sunday and charged with threatening a public official and harassment through electronic communication.
Bolingbrook Lieutenant Mike Rompa said an off-duty cop received a call from Ponce, who the officer had known through previous contact, threatening him and his family for disrupting his drug trade.
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Bolingbrook police located Ponce at his place of work in Orland Hills and arrested him.
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