Posted by karyn on January 02, 2010 at 13:56:17:
...like a woman scorned.:
WGN radio employee arrested after New Year's fight with ex
January 2, 2010
BY ROSEMARY SOBOL AND JENNIFER SABELLA Staff Reporters
A WGN radio employee was arrested after using her fist to break a window and enter the apartment of an ex-boyfriend during a disturbance early Friday in the Old Town neighborhood, police said.
According to her Web site, Elizabeth Grattan, 38, has done radio production, writing, on-air work and imaging for several companies, including Clear Channel Research & Development, Sirius Satellite Radio, WGN Radio, The Salvation Army, Curb Records, Subaru, Dodge, Public News Service and others.
Grattan was arrested at 5:35 a.m. Friday in the 1500 block of Wieland Avenue, according to police who said it was her first arrest. Grattan, who did not list her occupation on the arrest report, is scheduled to appear in Misdemeanor Court (Br. 29), 2452 W. Belmont Ave. on Jan. 25.
A man who lives at the Wieland address called 911 after Grattan allegedly broke the front window of his apartment using her fist and climbed in through the shattered window, according to police.
The two argued and when Near North District police officers arrived she appeared to be “highly intoxicated,” irate and was yelling and allegedly saying to officers, “You can’t put your hands on me,’’ police said.
Grattan had blood on her hands and minor cuts from climbing through the broken glass, and was allegedly pulling away from officers who were trying to arrest her and “flailing” her arms at the police, keeping officers “at bay” or away from her, according to police.
Grattan took to her blog to address the incident after her arrest. She claims she was invited to her ex-boyfriend’s New Year’s Eve party and stayed for awhile until realizing he was in bed with another woman. She allegedly lived in the apartment with him for two months--until recently. She also threw her drink in his face after she saw him with the other woman, Grattan said on her blog.
“With that, he picked me up and carried me and threw me out his front door," Grattan writes. "Hitting the brick wall near his steps. With no coat. In temperatures near zero. My wallet was inside. My phone. My things. And they wouldn't give them to me…So, I like any other woman that passionate, disillusioned and angry and freezing did what I needed to do (or thought at least). I broke his window.”
Grattan claims two of the three things she was charged with are “totally incorrect” and said police should not have been called to the party.
(According to her Web site, Elizabeth Grattan does radio work for Clear Channel Research & Development, Sirius Satellite Radio, WGN Radio, The Salvation Army, Curb Records, Subaru, Dodge, Public News Service and others.)