Five Riverside-Brookfield High School students, all boys aged 14 and 15 year old, were charged with aggravated battery and mob action for allegedly jumping and beating a fellow student in a school hallway on April 15 just before 10:30 a.m.

According to Riverside police, the attack was in retaliation for a comment the victim, a Brookfield resident, made the previous day. Police reported that the comment was racial in nature. The 17-year-old victim is white; his alleged attackers are black, according to the report. The alleged attackers live in North Riverside, Brookfield and Broadview.

Following the April 14 incident, one of the black students reportedly approached a district administrator and told him what was said. That prompted an internal investigation, police reported.

However, the following day the boys allegedly took matters into their own hands. Spotting the victim in a hallway, the five reportedly approached him from behind. One allegedly pulled the victim to the ground and all five began punching and kicking the victim before leaving the scene.

The victim was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood for treatment of his injuries, which police reported as a black eye, blunt abdominal trauma, a cervical spine strain and a concussion.

After being charged, the five boys were reportedly turned over to the custody of their parents. The case has been referred to Cook County juvenile authorities.

DUI

Riverside resident Susan A. Reguera, 49, was charged with driving under the influence after she allegedly drove her 1999 Jeep Cherokee into a parked 2003 Chevy Blazer in the 4000 block of Sunnyside Avenue, Brookfield, just after midnight on April 19.

According to the report, Reguera’s vehicle was headed northbound when it veered left across the road and crashed into the front end of the Blazer. Reguera reportedly failed field sobriety tests and was arrested for DUI. Police said that a breath test showed her blood-alcohol level to be .124, which is over the legal limit of .08.

In addition to DUI, Reguera was ticketed for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.

Graffiti at Lincoln School

During the overnight hours of April 13 and 14, someone got up on the roof of Lincoln School, 4300 Grove Ave., and spray-painted graffiti in various spots. On the main chimney police reported finding a swastika with the word “Hitler” underneath it in white spray paint. On the other side of the chimney was a marijuana leaf painted in white.

On the roof over the gym, the word “Merk” was spray painted. Glass block windows also had graffiti in black spray paint.

Burglary

Brookfield police have charged three men in connection with the April 13 burglary of a home in the 4100 block of Prairie Avenue.

The homeowner called police at 3:30 p.m. that day to report someone had cut a window screen to gain entry to the house and removed several items, including an iPod and its sound dock, a small flat-screen TV, a laptop computer, several pieces of jewelry, a digital camera and a videogame system.

Police arrested Robert Woods, 19, of Lyons; Steven Panosh, 19, of Brookfield; and Jason Froio, 18, of Brookfield, over the weekend after items taken in the burglary were recovered.

Lyons police reportedly found the laptop computer, said Deputy Police Chief Jeff Leh, and the case “unraveled from there.”

A 20-year-old Cicero resident reported to North Riverside police on April 17 that between 8 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. someone broke into the trunk of his 1993 Chevy Caprice and removed two kicker speakers, a High Phonetics amplifier and a capacitor.

The victim said that the doors to his car were locked when he returned to it that afternoon. He knew something was amiss, however, when he turned on his stereo and it sounded different.

A resident of the 2200 block of 6th Avenue, North Riverside, reported that he parked his 1999 Chevy Blazer on the street on the evening of April 11. At 7:30 a.m. on April 12, he noticed that the interior of the vehicle had been ransacked and that $5 in change was missing from the cup holder. The vehicle was unlocked during the night, police said.

These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Riverside, North Riverside and Brookfield police departments from April 13 to April 19 and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Unless otherwise indicated, anybody named in these reports has only been charged with a crime. These cases have not been adjudicated.

– Compiled by Bob Uphues