A 35-year-old Chicago man was cited May 9 for failing to appear in court after a Brookfield police officer pulled him over with who police said was an Uber passenger in the backseat.
According to police, the officer pulled the man over on 47th Street around 11:40 p.m. that night after seeing his car’s taillights were out. The man provided the officer with his driver’s license and proof of insurance.
Running the man’s information through the police database showed he had a warrant out of DuPage County for failure to appear in court on a DUI charge. The officer had the man exit his vehicle and arrested him before informing the backseat passenger, an Uber passenger who then left the scene, of what happened.
The man was taken to the station to be processed and was issued a citation for his failure to appear. Police said DuPage County police did not want custody of the man, so a June 26 court date was set, and the man was returned to his vehicle.
Cited after causing a three-car crash
A man received four citations May 2 in Riverside after striking one car and pushing it into another in a hit-and-run collision with no injuries.
A Riverside police officer was dispatched to the scene on First Avenue around 2:40 p.m. that day. One driver told police she had been driving north on First Avenue and slowing down to stop at the red light at Forest Avenue when the man’s car struck her car from behind; the impact pushed her car into the bumper of the car in front of her, which was stopped at the light. The woman’s car was later towed due to the moderate damage it had sustained.
A passenger in the stopped car that was struck told police she watched the initial collision take place and recorded the license plate of the man’s car.
The man’s car was later located by police 50 feet away from the collision in the grass next to the roadway on Parkview Avenue, having sustained heavy damage to the front. According to police, the driver stood outside the vehicle while two passengers, a woman and her child, remained in the backseat.
The man told police he had been driving north on First Avenue when traffic slowed down, and he could not stop before striking the car in front of him. He said he could not see in front of him due to heavy rain and the damage to the front of the car, so he pulled off the roadway. The man then provided police with an expired driver’s license and said he did not have proof of insurance. Police ran the car’s information, which showed it belonged to the man’s mother.
Police cited the man for his expired license, for the car’s expired registration, for driving without insurance and for failing to slow down to avoid an accident. A court date was set and the man was released.
Arrested for reckless, drunk driving
A man was arrested May 4 in Brookfield after a Riverside officer on patrol saw his car swerving between lanes.
Dispatch had advised Brookfield police of the man driving recklessly while heading east on Ogden Avenue from Prairie Avenue. According to police, the Riverside officer saw the man’s car turn south from Ogden Avenue onto First Avenue and began to follow it. The officer observed the man’s car multiple times cross the solid white line to its left before drifting to the right and starting to cross the dotted white line, so the officer pulled the man over.
During the stop, the man told the officer he knew what he was doing and that he was sorry before providing a driver’s license and proof of insurance. The officer saw the man’s eyes were “extremely bloodshot and watery” and smelled alcohol during conversation.
With the help of a translating officer, the man said in Spanish he had been coming from a friend’s house and heading home to Chicago. When asked, the man told police he had drunk five beers that night. The officer who pulled the man over asked the man to take field sobriety testing, which the man agreed to do.
During the tests, police reported that the officer observed multiple indicators of the man’s impairment, like struggling with his balance and restarting of his own accord. The man took a preliminary breath test, which showed .15 blood alcohol content.
The officer arrested the man and took him to the station. The man was “processed on his relative DUI charges” and placed in a cell until his blood alcohol content fell below .04, at which time he was released. A June 21 court date was set.
These items were obtained from the Riverside Police Department reports dated May 2-8 and the Brookfield Police Department reports dated May 6-13; 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.
