A woman was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after she fled from a traffic stop and ran a red light early Tuesday morning on Dec. 21, according to the Brookfield Police Department.
The woman was driving a silver Honda Civic eastbound on 31st Street at about 2:27 a.m. when she was spotted by an officer going 62 mph in a 30-mph-zone, the report said.
The officer followed the vehicle, saw her cross the yellow line without signaling, and then swerve back and brake. The officer then pulled the vehicle over on the 8400 block of 31st Street.
The officer approached the vehicle and smelled alcohol coming from inside. The woman said she was pregnant and was speeding because she needed to urinate. She had slurred speech and could not find her insurance card.
The officer went back to his squad car to check the driver’s license, while another officer arrived to assist. The second officer saw through the rear window how the driver took three sips of a drink from a can.
A moment after that, the woman then drove away from the traffic stop, ignoring the officers’ commands to stop. The officer followed the vehicle with his lights and siren on, but the driver did not stop. The vehicle turned onto 1st Avenue and ran a red light, according to the report.
The vehicle finally stopped on the 3100 block of 1st Avenue. When asked why she drank if she needed to urinate, the driver said she was thirsty and noted it was ginger ale. She said she did nothing wrong.
The driver was taken to the police station.When asked why she smelled of alcohol she said she had diabetes. Police said the officer answered that it has no correlation to the smell.
She also threatened the officer and said she personally knows the mayor of the village of Lyons, Christopher Getty.
The woman was given a warning to motorist, traffic tickets and tow paperwork. The officer drove her home.
Couple loses $40,000 to a tech support scam.
A couple fell victim to a tech support scam that cost them $44,600 Thursday, according to Brookfield police.
The scam began on Thursday evening, when the couple turned on their computer and saw a message saying it was locked. They called the number on the screen and gave remote access to a person who claimed to fix the problem.
The person charged them $200 for antivirus software and said it would take some time. The next day, he called them back and said he had accidentally deposited $44,200 into their checking account and they needed to return it.
After the man instructed them to deposit the money through various Bitcoin machines, using a QR code he texted them.
After they deposited the money, he reminded them that they still owe $24,000 and asked if they have a different bank account.
The couple said yes and went to the Bank of America branch in Oak Park where they withdrew $24,000 in cash and deposited most of that.
After thinking about it overnight, the couple realized they had been scammed and called the police on Saturday.
The police told them to contact their banks and to take their computer to a repair company.
Police also gave them identity theft paperwork and advised them to contact the credit bureaus.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department and North Riverside Police Department reports dated Dec. 25 – Jan. 1 of 2023 and 2024 and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.
Compiled by Amina Sergazina
