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Homeless to Hotel: Police Transport Man With 5 Shopping Carts of Stuff

Police found a homeless man with five shopping carts from Target wandering down Plainfield Road, and Patch readers asked what was happening.

Linda Ozbolt, Neighbor
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Darien Patch reader Annette Hesson posted a photo on our Facebook page Tuesday, showing Darien police officers talking to a man standing next to several shopping carts and full garbage bags, which were stacked along Plainfield Road near Kingswood Academy.

“What is going on?” Hesson asked.

We wondered, too.

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According to John Cooper, deputy police chief for the City of Darien, police were called to investigate the report of a suspicious person pushing five shopping carts down the road Tuesday afternoon.

“The subject was homeless and had some issues,” Cooper said in an email. “He wanted to go to a hotel. We tried to get him a cab, but he had too much stuff. We got a pickup truck and took him to a hotel in Bolingbrook.”

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Cooper said police returned the shopping carts to a nearby Target store. The man was not arrested or charged. 

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