Riverside police arrested a man Dec. 1 for unlawful use of a weapon after he was caught driving nearly three times the speed limit.
Around 4 p.m., an officer on patrol saw the man’s car heading south on Woodside Road. Using their radar speedometer, the officer saw the car was going 69 mph in a 25-mph zone. After following the car to the stop light at the intersection of Forest and First avenues, the officer turned on their car’s emergency lights and pulled the car over by the intersection of Parkview and Forbes roads.
After approaching the driver and explaining the stop, the officer noticed a child in the front passenger seat whom the driver said was his 11-year-old brother. The man provided police with a valid driver’s license and proof of insurance before the officer arrested the man for aggravated speeding. After police searched him, the man told police there was gun ammunition in his car but there were no firearms.
When the officer searched the man’s car, they found a single shell casing on the front passenger floor and a fully loaded Ruger pistol in the rear passenger floorboard “within the driver’s reach” alongside three boxes of ammunition for the pistol in the trunk. According to police, before being read his Miranda rights, the man said he had bought the gun a week before and that it was registered to him. Dispatchers confirmed for police that the man did not possess an active concealed carry license, making his possession of the gun a crime.
Another officer transported the child to his mother’s home in North Riverside while the officer brought the man to the central lockup facility in Berwyn. Police ran the man’s gun through their database, and it came back with no crime record. After contacting felony review, police charged the man with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, a felony, and aggravated speeding, a misdemeanor, before releasing him and setting an upcoming court date.
These items were obtained from the Riverside Police Department reports dated Dec. 1 and the Brookfield Police Department reports dated Dec. 2-9; 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.
