The case against a Tinley Park woman charged with driving over her boyfriend will be back in court again next month.
Some women walk all over men. Christine Meyers allegedly drove over one. Meyers, 23, appeared in court for a brief hearing Thursday morning and was scheduled to return Feb. 28. The Tinley Park woman was arrested in December after an argument with her live-in boyfriend ended with her running him over with her car, police said. Meyers was charged with aggravated domestic battery in connection with the incident that allegedly left her 21-year-old boyfriend with severe burns to his chest, back and scrotum. The scrotum burns reportedly required surgery. Despite the grievous injuries supposedly suffered under Meyers' tires, the boyfriend reportedly at first told police someone else ran him over while he was crossing the street. According to a …
The man whose girlfriend is accused of running over him didn't rat her out to Tinley Park Police when he was initially questioned about the incident, according to a police report.
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- Joe Vince
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
The 21-year-old man who suffered severe burns after his girlfriend allegedly drove over him last week originally told police an unknown vehicle had hit him, dragging him down 175th Street, according to police reports. Christine A. Meyers, 23, was charged with aggravated domestic battery Sunday, Dec. 16, after prosecutors claimed she drove over her boyfriend after picking him up from a bar early Friday. The incident resulted in burns on the man's chest, back and scrotum, the latter injury needing surgery to repair. READ: Man's Burns Require Surgery After Girlfriend Drives Over Him But the boyfriend's initial report to Tinley Park Police paints a drastically different picture of what happened. According to the report, the man had been …
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4:45 pm on Monday, January 28, 2013
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