Police chase a solution to nuisance ATVs

NILES — Ray Heitman has lived on Summit Avenue on the city’s South Side for 21 years and is a self-admitted frustrated man.

“I’ve been frustrated for years. They come from all over the place,” Heitman said of the all-terrain vehicles that illegally speed up and down Summit and along an abandoned railroad track bed that runs along the side of his property.

“It’s noisy and dusty,” Heitman said of the nuisance. But he’s hesitant to try to stop them.

He stopped an ATV driver one day — and a car outside the back of his garage was burned the next. “You can’t get too nasty with them,” he added.

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