A 29-year-old Brookfield man and his mother, a 53-year-old Brookfield woman, were arrested June 20 in Brookfield after the man drove under the influence and his car struck a tree.
Brookfield officers first responded to the 4600 block of Raymond Avenue around 12:45 a.m. that morning after receiving a report of a crash involving a vehicle and a tree. After arriving, the officers saw two people, later identified as mother and son, standing next to the crashed car, police said. When police asked who was driving, the woman said she had been driving and the man said he had not been inside the car. During the conversation, officers noticed the woman wearing a bathrobe and slippers while the man had watery eyes and the scent of alcohol on his breath. An officer told the woman it appeared she had stayed in while her son was out and that they would arrest her for obstructing the investigation if she was lying.
When Brookfield paramedics arrived, they examined the man and his mother, separating the two of them. As they conversed with different officers, a third officer checked the inside of the vehicle, where they found a loaded Glock handgun alongside “male style” pants on the driver’s side of the car. When asked, the woman told police that the pants were her son’s, but she continued to claim she was driving. At the same time, her son told an officer that he had been driving the car, so police placed the woman under arrest.
After arresting the woman, police detained her son in handcuffs to investigate whether he had been driving drunk. At some point during conversation, the officers learned the man had a concealed carry license. The officers also found an empty can of White Claw alcoholic seltzer under the driver’s seat after checking the car again. According to police, an officer ran the handgun’s serial number through the police database, and it came back with no record. While police spoke to the man, he said he had been coming home from a bar and had drunk alcohol before driving home and hitting the tree.
An officer transported the man to the North Riverside Police Department to have him complete standardized field testing. When they arrived and the man completed the tests, the officer noticed several indicators of his impairment. The officer asked the man to take a preliminary breath test, but he declined, so they arrested him for driving drunk.
The man received misdemeanor charges for his DUI and for carrying a concealed weapon while drunk. He also received citations for driving an uninsured car and failing to slow down to avoid the tree. The man’s mother was charged for obstructing police’s investigation. A July 23 court date was set for both of them before police released them.
Caught asleep at the wheel
A man was arrested early the morning of June 16 after Riverside police responded to a call of a vehicle stopped in the roadway.
Around 12:30 a.m., two Riverside officers were dispatched to Forest Avenue near Parkview Road in response to the report of the stopped car. Upon arriving at the scene, the officers found the driver of the car was asleep at the wheel, police said. After the officers made “several attempts” to wake the driver by shaking the car and knocking on the driver’s window, the man woke up and unlocked the doors.
According to police, the man moved slowly and had bloodshot, glassy eyes. His breath also smelled of alcohol while speaking with an officer. When asked, the man told the officers he had consumed one mixed drink about two hours prior.
After agreeing to take field sobriety tests, the man struggled with his balance and walked the wrong number of steps. The man also agreed to take a preliminary breath test, but he made several insufficient tries to blow into the breathalyzer machine.
Based on the man’s behavior, the officers arrested him for driving under the influence and took him to the Berwyn police department for processing. While there, the man once again agreed to take a breath test but was unable to provide a sample that would work. The man was charged with the DUI as well as for parking improperly on the roadway. He was later released and a July 18 court date was set.
These items were obtained from the Riverside Police Department reports dated June 16-17 and the Brookfield Police Department reports dated June 17-24; 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.
