Brookfield police charged two men with disorderly conduct on Sept. 1 after they allegedly presented themselves as Brookfield police officers to three people.

According to the police report, two 20-year-old women were driving in the 9100 block of Ogden Avenue when their vehicle began to overheat just after 10 p.m. They pulled into the lot at Danny’s Italian Beef, 9123 Ogden Ave. and called a friend for help. While in the lot, the three were approached by two men, later identified as Chicago resident Gary F. Lynch, 51, and Brookfield resident James L. Maldonado, 25, who allegedly identified themselves as undercover Brookfield police officers.

Maldonado reportedly asked one of the three, a 20-year-old Hodgkins man, for identification and his vehicle insurance card. After looking the IDs over, Maldonado reportedly told the three to “get out of there.”

One of the victims called Brookfield police to report the incident, police found the two men inside a gold Chevy Blazer in the parking lot and arrested them. The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office denied Brookfield’s request for felony approval against the men. Maldonado was charged with two counts of disorderly conduct, while Lynch was hit with one disorderly conduct charge.

Burglary

Riverside police charged Brookfield resident Jeramy K. Luttrell, 17, with burglary to a motor vehicle, a Class 4 felony, after he reportedly stole a box of tools from a vehicle parked behind an apartment building in the 3000 block of Harlem Avenue on Sept. 2.

According to the report, the victim came into the police station at 9:30 a.m. complaining that an ex-boyfriend, Luttrell, had broken into her car and stolen a tool box. At 3:10 p.m., the victim called the station, saying her ex-boyfriend was driving in the alley behind her residence. Officers stopped Luttrell near the intersection of Akenside and Longcommon roads. Luttrell later reportedly confessed to the burglary, saying he had taken the tool box to a location on Roosevelt Road, where he sold the tools to an unknown person for $20.

Drug offense

Riverside police charged Brookfield resident Daniel Pina, 18, with unlawful possession of cannabis after a Riverside-Brookfield High School employee reported seeing Pina smoking cannabis in the student parking lot at the school, 160 Ridgewood Road, just after 8:30 a.m. Police reportedly recovered less than 10 grams of cannabis from Pina.

Criminal damage to vehicles

Sometime during the overnight hours of Sept. 6-7, several cars were damaged in the 3100, 3200, 3300 and 3400 blocks of Madison Avenue; the 9300 block of Jackson Avenue and the 3100 block of Raymond Avenue, Brookfield.

In each of the 10 incidents police reported, someone used a blunt instrument to break off the driver’s side rear-view mirror from the vehicle.

Brookfield police reported two possibly related vehicle damage incidents last week in the 4300 and 4400 blocks of Prairie Avenue. In one incident on Sept. 9 at 9:45 p.m., a man driving a 1995 Ford hatchback in the 4300 block of Prairie Avenue said that an unknown male threw a landscaping brick at his car. The brick left several scratches and nicks to the rear spoiler and glass of the vehicle.

The offender was last seen running west through Ehlert Park before heading north on Vernon Avenue. The man said that he didn’t report a similar incident that occurred on Sept. 2.

A resident of the 4400 block of Prairie reported to police that sometime during the overnight hours of Sept. 9-10, someone threw a landscaping brick through the windshield of his parked 1993 Saturn. Police reported finding gang graffiti written in the dust on top of the vehicle.

Firearms offense

Brookfield police charged Franklin Park resident Francisco Lepe, 24, with possession of ammunition without a Firearms Owner’s ID Card after a traffic stop on 47th Street at 2 p.m. on Sept. 2. During the stop, the officer reported seeing a blue Beretta gun box on the passenger side seat. Searching the vehicle, the officer found that the box contained 15 rounds of .38-caliber handgun ammunition.

According to the report, Lepe said that the ammunition belonged to a friend who mistakenly left it in the vehicle.

DUI

Brookfield police charged Berwyn resident Doreen J. Kozak, 40, with driving under the influence after she allegedly drove her 2006 Ford into the parking lot at 4020 DuBois Blvd. just after 1 a.m. on Sept. 3, and struck a yellow pole, causing it to flip over on to the passenger side of the vehicle.

These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Riverside and Brookfield police departments from Sept. 1 through Sept. 11 and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Unless otherwise indicated, anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime. The cases have not yet been adjudicated.

-compiled by Bob Uphues