A woman was arrested Feb. 3 in North Riverside for driving under the influence of alcohol after a Riverside police officer on patrol observed her driving into oncoming traffic on the wrong side of the road.
At around 2 a.m., the officer saw the woman driving north on South Harlem Avenue between Longcommon Road and Lindberg Road. Police said the officer first saw both of the car’s driver-side wheels touch the double yellow lines, at which point the officer, who had been driving south, made a U-turn and followed the woman in her car.
Then, police said, the officer witnessed the car drive into the left turn lane at the intersection at West 26th Street before continuing north into oncoming traffic without turning. The officer watched a southbound car swerve to avoid the woman’s car as she drove on the wrong side of the median. The woman’s car merged back onto the right side of the road after the median ended at the intersection at West 25th Steet. The officer pulled the woman over at the intersection of South Harlem Avenue and West 24th Street in North Riverside, police said.
The woman provided a valid license and proof of insurance before consenting to the officer’s field sobriety tests. According to police, the woman struggled with her balance throughout the tests and was unable to count backwards from 63 to 39. The woman later refused a handheld preliminary breath test.
After observing multiple “indicators of consumption and possible impairment” in the woman during her sobriety tests, the officer arrested the woman for driving under the influence of alcohol. She was brought back to the station and charged after refusing a chemical test. A court date was set for March 15.
Break-in and burglary attempt at Blue Water Lounge
Police were called just before 5 a.m. Feb. 5 to the Blue Water Lounge on 31st Street in Brookfield after a neighbor saw an unidentified man kick the bar’s glass front door in. According to police, officers who arrived on the scene noticed the front door was severely damaged and one of the gambling game machines inside was also damaged. Nothing else inside the bar appeared to be damaged, police said.
Camera footage of the incident showed the man forcing his way into the lounge according to police. The man then attempted to open several of the gambling game machines within the business with a crowbar, damaging one of them. Two minutes after he entered the bar, police said, camera footage showed the man leaving without taking anything from the business. He was last seen on the camera walking north through Blue Water’s parking lot before heading east through an alleyway.
Arrested for driving without a valid license
A man was arrested Feb. 3 in Riverside after he was pulled over by an officer on patrol and provided an expired Venezuelan driver’s license.
According to police, the officer pulled the man over after being stopped behind his car at a red light in one of the center lanes at the intersection of South Harlem Avenue and Ogden Avenue. The officer witnessed the man making a right turn when the light turned green even though there is a dedicated right turn lane at the intersection.
After the officer pulled the man over at the intersection of Ogden Avenue and Haas Avenue, the man provided the expired license from Venezuela and an active insurance card, so the officer arrested him, police said. The man’s female passenger, who said she did not have a driver’s license, accepted a ride to the police station when the officer brought the man in. The man’s car was later seized.
The man was charged with making an improper turn and driving without a valid driver’s license.
Arrested for driving with a suspended license
A man was arrested Feb. 2 in Riverside at the intersection of South Harlem Avenue and Ogden Avenue after a police officer on patrol pulled him over and discovered his driver’s license was suspended.
When police asked the man for his driver’s license and proof of insurance during the stop, he provided them with a copy of his social security card alongside his proof of insurance, police said. After running the man’s information through the police database, the officer learned his license was suspended and arrested him.
The man’s passenger, who provided a valid driver’s license when asked, was given the vehicle as a driver when the officer brought the man in for booking, police said.
These items were obtained from the Riverside Police Department reports dated Feb. 1-8 and the Brookfield Police Department reports dated Feb. 5-12; they 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.
