A Brookfield mom who brought her daughter’s lunch to school last week ended up being charged with battery and disorderly conduct after she reportedly smacked a fifth-grade boy in the head for making fun of the way she was dressed.

According to the heavily redacted police report, the 47-year-old woman entered Hollywood School, 3423 Hollywood Ave., at about noon on May 20. She allegedly was not buzzed into the building, but followed the postal carrier who had been buzzed in at the front door.

When the woman walked into the gym, which serves as the school’s lunch room, she reportedly heard other students make comments about the way she was dressed. As she was leaving, police said, she walked past the fifth-grade lunch table and slapped a 12-year-old boy on the side of his head and left the building.

The act was reportedly witnessed by two lunch ladies, whose statements were redacted by police. The boy’s mother agreed to sign a battery complaint against the woman, while Hollywood School Principal Mindy Keller signed a complaint against the woman for disorderly conduct.

The woman was arrested at her home at 8:15 p.m. and charged with the two offenses. She faces a June 22 court date.

Swimming pool stolen

A resident of the 9000 block of Sheridan Avenue, Brookfield, told police that some time between 4:45 p.m. on May 20 and 5:30 p.m. on May 21, someone stole a disassembled swimming pool from the backyard.

Pieces of the 12-by-20-foot pool were lying in the rear of the yard along the fence by the parking pad. A witness reportedly told the homeowner that a white male, in his mid-20s with reddish-blond crew cut, was loading items from the yard into a dark blue Chevy pickup.

Two juveniles cited for graffiti

A 16-year-old boy from Countryside and a 14-year-old boy from Brookfield were arrested and issued local ordinance violation tickets for allegedly scrawling graffiti on a garage in the alley of the 4100 block of Elm and Park avenues, Brookfield, on May 13.

According to the police report, someone called police at about 7:45 p.m. alleging that five boys were walking in the alley and writing on a garage. The graffiti was done in black permanent marker, said police. Police reportedly recovered a black Sharpie marker from one of the boys. Another was identified by the witness as writing on the garage by telling police the color of his shirt.

DUI crashes

• Brookfield police charged 18-year-old Guadalupe Abimael, of Brookfield, with driving under the influence after he reportedly crashed his 1998 Pontiac Grand Am into something prior to 7 a.m. on May 21.

Police were called to the 4200 block of Forest Avenue when someone saw a car with heavy front-end damage pull into the alley and park behind a home. A person exited the vehicle and ran into the home, the witness told police.

When officers arrived they located the Grand Prix, observing that the air bag had deployed and that there was a “large amount” of blood on the air bag. Police followed the trail of blood to the front stoop of a house where they knocked on the door.

Guadalupe reportedly answered the door, his head bleeding profusely, according to police. Police said that Guadalupe appeared intoxicated and asked him if he remembered where he was involved in an accident. Guadalupe’s answered in the report is redacted, but police later reported being unable to determine what the car might have struck after contacting several neighboring police agencies.

• Chicago resident Patrick H. Doherty, 46, faces a DUI and drug charges after he reportedly drove his 2001 Volkswagen Cabrio off the roadway and into a fire hydrant while southbound in the 2900 block of Harlem Avenue, Riverside, on May 19 at 11:40 a.m.

Doherty reportedly “stumbled” out of the car and appeared intoxicated to police, who allegedly found a plastic baggy containing cannabis in his pants pocket. Doherty was taken to MacNeal Hospital where he consented to a blood/urine test to determine whether he was intoxicated by drugs or alcohol.

Afterwards, police stated, Doherty expressed second thoughts about that test, saying, “I don’t know what might pop up.”

Doherty was charged with DUI of drug/alcohol pending his lab tests and with possession of between 10 and 30 grams of cannabis.

These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Riverside, North Riverside and Brookfield police departments from May 13 to May 23 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