A woman was taken into police custody in Riverside and brought to the hospital March 6 after she broke a neighbor’s window and injured herself.
Riverside officers were dispatched to a residence around 10:30 p.m. that night after the neighbor called them after the incident. According to police, the neighbor said she had heard an argument in the apartment above hers that night, and about 15 minutes later she heard the woman “banging” on her back door. The neighbor said she did not answer the door because she didn’t know the woman. Later, the woman punched one of the glass windows in before moving around the apartment to the front door, at which point the neighbor called the police, she said. The neighbor also said she tried to contact the man who lives in the apartment above hers who had been arguing with the woman but that he did not respond, police said.
When officers spoke to the woman who had broken the window, she said she was hanging out with a different friend than the man who lived in the upstairs apartment. Police said the woman was “profusely bleeding from her left hand,” slurred her words and smelled of alcohol while they spoke. According to police, the woman admitted to knocking on the neighbor’s back door but said she wasn’t knocking “that hard.”
After officers spoke to the woman, paramedics assisted her into an ambulance while police spoke to the neighbor. After she gave her version of events, the neighbor told police she was going to sign complaints for criminal property damage. According to police, the woman was then placed into custody and taken to MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn. Around 1 a.m. the next morning, the woman was released from custody at the hospital and brought to the Riverside Police Department for fingerprinting. An April 5 court date was set.
Arrested for driving with a revoked license
A man was arrested in Berwyn March 6 for driving with a revoked license after a Riverside officer on patrol pulled him over.
According to police, the officer saw the man’s car heading south on South Harlem Avenue around 4:30 a.m. with only one working tail light. The officer performed a traffic stop on the man’s car in the Mobile gas station at the intersection with 30th Street.
When the man pulled over, he initially exited his car and started to walk to the gas station store. The officer stopped him and made him come back to the car to complete the traffic stop. When the officer asked the man for his drivers license, the man provided his Illinois ID and started to cry, saying he was working to fix his license situation. He further explained that he was driving in order to pick up scrap metal to make money, police said, and that he needed to feed his daughter.
The officer ran the man’s information through the police database, which showed his drivers license was revoked. The officer placed the man into custody and took him to be booked and processed. The man was later released and an April 19 court date was set.
Arrested for DUI after driving twice the speed limit
A woman was arrested in Lyons March 3 after a patrolling Riverside officer saw her falsely indicate a turn while speeding.
Around 1 a.m. that morning, the officer saw the woman driving south on South Harlem Avenue near East Burlington Street in the left lane. According to police, the officer confirmed the woman’s car was going 59 mph in a 30 mph zone while it also had its left turn signal on, but the car continued south and did not turn left at the intersection. At that point, the officer initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle, which turned into the Tom’s Carry Out parking lot in Lyons.
During the stop, the driver provided her license to the officer alongside documents such as oil change receipts and warranty information, police said. One passenger said that she owned the vehicle and that her mother had the insurance card. While speaking with the driver, the officer smelled alcohol on her breath, but she denied drinking. The driver agreed to field sobriety testing, during which the officer noticed signs of impairment, police said. The woman then agreed to a preliminary breath test, which showed .17 blood alcohol content. At that point, the officer took the woman into custody. Neither of the two passengers had a license, so they were both “sent on their way.” An inventory of the car revealed there were open alcoholic drinks in the backseat.
At the station, the woman admitted to taking shots and being under the influence of alcohol after waiving her Miranda rights. She was booked on DUI charges and later released.
These items were obtained from the Riverside Police Department reports dated March 3-6 and the Brookfield Police Department reports dated March 4-11; 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.
