2 Unusual Cases of Harassment of Employees at Randall Road Businesses

Two separate cases of harassment of employeess were reported to St. Charles police officers. In one case a male customer was harassiing female employees of a popular Randall Road food and merchanidise superstore. In the other case, employees were harassed by text messages.

Customer Harassing Employee

Meier, 855 S. Randall Road, reported at 3:28 p.m. that an unidentified male customer has been harassing a female employee while she is working at a cash register. Most recently, the customer made lewd comments to her, but in the past also has touched her. The individual is described as a white male, age 30 to 40, with blond, crew-cut hair, about 6 feet, 3 inches tall, and weighing about 200 pounds. Police checked a store surveillance video indicating that, after leaving the store, the individual drove away in a newer, gray Ford pickup.

SUNDAY, AUG. 26

Harassment Via Text Messages

Three employees, two female and one male, of a business on the 200 block of South Randall Road reported at 10:42 a.m. they have been receiving unsolicited, unusual text messages from an unidentified person, and that they believed that some of the messages might be related to conversations or incidents that occurred while they were working together. The messages reportedly began about three months ago and reportedly were not threatening, although the police report described some as disturbing. The business’s loss prevention officer told police the employees reported the calls to the business on Aug. 21, and the loss-prevention officer tried to call the phone number from which the text messages were sent. The three employees have received no further text messages since that date.

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