Police calls include pipe bomb, beating and odd theft Published:
7/2/2013 8:36 PM | Last update: 7/3/2013 5:43 PM  Police calls
include pipe bomb, beating and odd theft  By The News staff
Pipe bombs, thefts and moving out drama highlighted Monday
evening and Tuesday morning's police crime log.  It wasn't even
dark out when a woman in the 100 block of East 12th Avenue found
what was described as a "pipe bomb" in her yard. Police Sgt.
Brice Burlie couldn't confirm what the bomb was made of, but it
did explode in her yard around 5:45 p.m. Monday, causing a small
grass fire.  Shortly before 11 p.m. Monday, a 34-year-old man in
the 100 block of West 10th Avenue reported an unknown male
forcing entry into his residence and battering him with a wooden
post. He suffered injuries to his face, right wrist and left
hand, but was not taken to the hospital. Burlie said the unknown
male took $15 in cash before fleeing the residence.  Around 1
a.m. Tuesday, police went to a home in the 2000 block of North
Halstead Street a