A man was arrested March 30 for driving drunk after a Riverside police officer on patrol saw him sleeping behind the wheel while the car was stopped.
According to police, the officer was headed north on Longcommon Road around 6:30 a.m. when they saw the man’s car parked with heavy damage to both front sides. When the officer approached the vehicle, they saw the man sleeping in the driver’s seat. After backup arrived, the officer opened the car door, which was unlocked, and the man woke up.
The man told the officer he was okay, but he “slurred” and “mumbled” his words, police said. When the officer asked the man what he was doing, the man could not reply clearly. The officer then smelled alcohol on the man’s mouth and breath, but the man said he had not had any drinks before consenting to field sobriety testing.
After the man exited the vehicle, officers found a small plastic bag of cannabis in the man’s pocket. They asked if he needed medical attention, but he declined. An officer found the man’s identification, ran it through a database, and learned his driver’s license had been suspended.
The man struggled with his balance and did not follow instructions correctly. The man also declined a portable breath test after completing field sobriety tests. Police arrested him for driving under the influence. When they inventoried the man’s car, police found an open bottle of Jack Daniels whisky on the backseat floor and a cup half-full with alcohol in the center console cupholder. Police also found a small container of cannabis in the console.
On the way to the station, the man said he had not been driving but that a “female that was with him” had been, police said. The man also said the car had been parked. During conversation with the police, the man did not know what time it was or what the date or day of the week was. When police asked the man again if he had been drinking, he said he had had two to three “half-size cups” of mixed drinks.
Police charged him on seven counts, including for driving under the influence, driving with alcohol in the front seat, driving with a suspended license and driving a car with no insurance. The man was released to his wife and given a court date of May 3.
Police later reviewed camera footage of the car in downtown Riverside from around 3:30 a.m. According to police, the man and a female passenger exited the man’s car at 3:25 a.m. before entering a nearby apartment building, and the man returned to the car at 3:32 a.m. Police also saw video footage of the man driving on grass, striking a streetlamp and narrowly missing a tree before he exited the vehicle. In the supplemental report, an officer said the man will be additionally charged for leaving the scene of a property crash and for damage to village property.
Ticketed April 5 in Brookfield for driving without insurance
- A 38-year-old Chicago woman was pulled over on Ogden Avenue around 3:40 p.m.
- A 41-year-old Lyons woman was pulled over near the intersection of Ogden Avenue and Eberly Avenue around 5:40 p.m.
- A 39-year-old Berwyn man was pulled over around near the intersection of Maple Avenue and Windemere Avenue around 7:50 p.m.
All three were driving vehicles that had had their registrations suspended due to a lack of insurance. All three were issued citations for driving with a suspended registration due to no insurance and for driving without insurance.
Ticketed for driving without a license following three-car crash
A man received a citation for driving with no license April 2 in Riverside after his car was rear-ended during a crash involving two other cars.
According to police, officers responded to the report of the crash near the intersection of Harlem Avenue and Berkeley Road that morning. After speaking with the drivers, police learned one of the cars had been stopped in the right lane heading south on Harlem Avenue due to a disabled vehicle ahead of it in the lane. Another car stopped in time behind the first car, but a third car rear-ended the second car and pushed it into the first car. Police said the third car may have slid on the railroad tracks just north of the intersection or the wet roadway.
All three drivers declined medical attention from responding paramedics. All three were instructed on how to obtain a crash report for their insurance. The driver of the first car was issued a citation after police learned his driver’s license had been expired for more than a year.
These items were obtained from the Riverside Police Department reports dated March 28 to April 2 and the Brookfield Police Department reports dated April 1-8; 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.
