Dwayne A. Clemons wound up in handcuffs after trying to steal a bottle of pricey booze from a grocery store in the South Loop.

At around 9:00 a.m. on Jan. 21, police responded to call of theft at the Dominick’s grocery at 1340 S. Canal St. Upon arrival, officers spoke with a security guard at the store who said Clemons, 51, had entered the store about an hour earlier and took a bottle Veuve Clicquot champagne off the shelf.

Clemons, a Midlothian resident, then placed the bottle — which was valued at around $67 — into a brown paper bag and headed toward the exit. As he walked past the register, the guard stopped the offender and detained him until the police arrived to arrest Clemons.

A taxi driver from Palos Hills told police that he was scammed out of a fare on Jan. 23.

At around 8:30 a.m., the cabbie picked up a man at a hotel where he lived on the 6500 block of South Cicero Avenue and drove him downtown. When they reached the man’s destination on the 100 block of North Wacker Drive, the passenger told the driver that he wasn’t going to pay.

The driver took the man’s card and charged him for the ride, at which point the offender said that he was going to cancel the card before the payment went through. When the driver tried to process the fare later, he found that the man had fulfilled his promise and stopped payment on the charge.

On the afternoon of Jan. 22, a citizen turned in a wallet that they found on the 200 block of East Randolph Street. The wallet, which belonged to an Orland Park man, contained various ID and credit cards. Officers were unable to find a working telephone number for the owner of wallet at the time of the report.

A security manager at the City Colleges of Chicago stated that a jacket had been stolen from Harold Washington College, 30 E. Lake, on the afternoon of Jan. 23. According to the complainant, a man had left his coat on rack in a third floor room at around 11:00 a.m. that morning. When the man returned three hours later, the jacket, which contained a wallet with $100 in cash and various credit cards, was gone.

The owner of a barber school in the Loop told police that he was threatened by a former client.

The victim said that on the morning of Jan. 23 a man who had once been a patron of school came in and threatened him, stating that he was going to “cap his ass” and making a gesture with his hands which mimicked a gun.

The barber, 30, said that the man had been in the shop before making similar threats for reasons unknown to him. Officers obtained a description of the man, who is believed to be in his 20s and sports a tattoo on his face, and issued an alert for police to keep look out for the offender.

Police arrested a 57-year-old East Garfield Park man for trespassing at a downtown building on the afternoon of Jan. 21.

An employee of M.B. Real Estate, 500 W. Madison St., called police and said the man was causing a disturbance in the building’s food court and had refused to leave on several requests. The suspect, who had been arrested for trespassing at the building on a previous occasion, was arrested by police and removed from the premises.

Police charged Walter S. Tyler, of the 12600 block of South Stewart Avenue, for trying to steal books from the Harold Washington Library on the evening of Jan. 19.

Tyler, 48, was allegedly observed trying to leave the library with two books hidden in the front pockets of his pants. Security detained him after the entranceway alarm was set off by the unchecked tomes.

n This summary contains information taken from the crime reports and arrest records of the 1st District of the Chicago Police Department. Anyone named has only been charged with a crime. The cases have not yet been adjudicated