Brookfield police ticketed a 17-year-old Broadview teen Nov. 18 after his car struck another vehicle in a hit-and-run.
According to police, a woman reported the incident around 3:35 p.m. after she walked into the Brookfield Police Department. She told police her car had just been struck by another car that did not stop. She said she followed the vehicle northwest onto Grand Avenue from Brookfield Avenue in order to take a picture of its license plates before turning around and reporting the incident.
Later, police connected the vehicle’s registration to a phone number, but upon calling and identifying themselves, the respondent hung up. After, the investigating officer had Broadview police respond to the address attached to the registration, where they found the car parked outside and made contact with someone, but they did not speak English.
Brookfield police called the phone number again and left a message before later getting a call back from the driver, who said he did not think he had hit another car and only noticed the damage to his car when he got home. The teen went to the police department as requested and, after providing police with his driver’s license and proof of insurance, police issued him citations for failing to slow down to avoid the collision and failing to yield at the intersection with a Dec. 12 court date.
Speeding
Brookfield police cited a 22-year-old Cicero man Nov. 18 for speeding.
Around 1:45 a.m., an officer on patrol parked at the BP gas station, 8856 Ogden Ave., saw the man’s car heading west on Ogden Avenue at 47 mph in the 30-mph zone.
The officer pulled the car over near the intersection with Park Avenue. The officer made contact with the driver, who only spoke Spanish. He told police he had never been issued a driver’s license, so the officer told him he would be ticketed and his vehicle would be towed.
The officer cited him for speeding and not having a license and issued him towing paperwork before sending him on his way.
Driving over village grass
Brookfield police ticketed a 61-year-old Glenview man Nov. 21 for damaging village property.
Around 2:55 p.m., an officer responded to the 8900 block of Burlington Avenue and made contact with the man, who explained he had been driving west in the alleyway south of Burlington before turning north onto the vacant grass lot at 8911 Burlington Ave. The man said he mistook the area for a parking lot due to the snowfall. While he was driving over the grass, his car got stuck, but he called a private tow truck to remove his car. In the process of having the car towed, it disturbed the grass and left damage to the lot and the village-owned parkway.
The officer issued the man a ticket for damaging village property and set a Dec. 16 court date.
After clearing the scene, the officer spoke with the code department, who explained the vacant lot had recently been sold by the village, but the officer confirmed the citation did not need to be changed due to the damage to the village’s parkway grass. The officer tried to call the owner of the grass lot to notify them of the damage but could not get into contact with them.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated Nov. 18-25; 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.
