A Chicago man was cited June 24 for obstructing a peace officer after Brookfield police resolved a violent argument between him and his ex-girlfriend where each said the other struck first.
Around 6:30 a.m. that morning, Brookfield police were dispatched to the BP gas station near the intersection of Ogden Avenue and Prairie Avenue, where they met the Chicago woman and the man. The woman had called police because her ex-boyfriend would not exit her vehicle.
As officers approached the car where the two were sitting, they could hear them yelling at each other from within and see them shoving each other inside the car. When police arrived, the two each exited the car and said the other had attacked them first.
One officer tried to speak with the man on the passenger side of the car, but the man tried to reenter the car and reach into it for something, police said. In response, the officers tried to place the man into handcuffs to prevent him from entering the car. The man continued his efforts and pulled away from the officers; as they pulled him back out of the car, the man and officers tripped and fell over a parking block on the ground. After they fell, the man tried to get back up and pull away while the woman told him to stop.
Police said the woman told officers the man had mental issues and needed to be taken to a mental health facility, to which the man agreed. When the man calmed down, police had him sit on the ground and told him that they were concerned about him grabbing things inside the car.
One officer spoke with the woman on the driver’s side of the car and learned the two had left Chicago together because she had to go to work. According to police, the woman said she was driving on Ogden Avenue when the man was “verbally aggressive” to her. She called the police after pulling over into the gas station. While she was calling, she said, the man was grabbing for items within the car, so she started recording him and told him to stop. She told him to exit the car before he “launched at her;” the woman said the man slapped her in the face, pulled her hair and bit her on the forehead. Police observed a small injury on the woman’s forehead.
The woman showed police the footage she had recorded on her phone, but police said it did not show anyone hitting anyone else. She then told police she only wanted to get her ex-boyfriend psychiatric help and did not want to pursue a complaint. She told police she had hit the man in the head to defend herself from his attack.
Officers who spoke with the man were told that he and the woman were arguing in the car while the woman was driving. After she pulled over, the woman began to punch the man in the face, so he pulled her hair in self-defense, he said.
“Due to conflicting statements, no independent witnesses, mutual combatants, it could not be determined who the aggressor was,” police wrote in the report.
After police took the man to Loyola Medicine in Maywood, they cited him for obstructing a peace officer because he “disobeyed a lawful command to not enter the vehicle.” A court date of August 13 was set.
Ticketed for speeding without a license
A Villa Park man was cited and had his vehicle towed by police after they caught him driving with no driver’s license.
Around 5:40 p.m. on June 27, a Brookfield officer was heading south on Maple Avenue on patrol when they saw a car heading north driving 45 mph in a 30-mph zone. The officer turned around and pulled the car over near the intersection of Maple Avenue and Shields Avenue.
After making contact with the driver, the officer requested the man’s driver’s license and proof of insurance, but the man was unable to provide either. He gave the officer a Puerto Rican passport and said he had never been issued a driver’s license. He further said he had lived in the Chicagoland area since about 2013.
The officer issued the man tickets for speeding, driving without a valid license and driving without insurance. Because of the infractions, the officer told the man they would have to have his car towed. The officer transported the man, who was not taken into custody, to the police station and set an August 13 court date for his citations.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated June 24 to July 1; 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.
