Brookfield police investigated a stolen vehicle Feb. 26 but did not arrest anyone.
Around 7:30 a.m., an officer responded to a residence on the 3000 block of Prairie Avenue, where a woman told police her car had been stolen in the early morning hours. She said she had parked the car on the east side of the street the prior morning and saw it was gone when she went outside.
The woman said she was in possession of the keys to the car, and the officer didn’t observe any glass that could have indicated a window was broken. She told police she had reviewed footage from her Ring camera, which is motion activated, and saw the car was missing around 2:27 a.m. She said she had confirmed the camera did not capture the theft itself. She said she didn’t remember if she had locked the car, and she couldn’t name any valuable items left in the car when it was taken.
Police learned from consolidated dispatch that the car was captured on a camera at the intersection of Roosevelt Road and Oak Park Avenue around 5:42 a.m. that day. The car wasn’t captured on any other cameras in the area. The officer learned the car had been stolen in 2022, and Hyundai, the manufacturer, said at that time the make and model had no way to be tracked.
On Feb. 27 around 3:06 p.m., dispatch told Brookfield police the car had been captured on camera heading west on 47th Street in Lyons at the intersection with Winchester Avenue. Around 3:52 p.m., North Riverside police advised they had observed the car heading east on Cermak Road at 6th Avenue in town; they tried to pull the car over, but it fled.
Riverside police later found the car unoccupied in the north-south alleyway between Lincoln Avenue and Kimbark Road near Forest Avenue. After establishing a perimeter, police arrested the offender, and Brookfield police reached out to the owner to let her know the car had been recovered.
Drunk driver arrested in Riverside
Riverside police arrested a woman Feb. 23 for driving drunk.
Around 8:22 p.m., an officer responded to the area of First Avenue and Ogden Avenue on a report of a reckless driver whose car was “all over the road.” The officer checked the area near Parkview Road, where they saw a car heading north that matched the description given by the caller. The officer observed the driver with her head down near the wheel while her car moved slowly, with drivers behind it maneuvering around the car. The officer got behind the car and activated their car’s emergency lights, but the woman did not pull over until the officer activated their sirens.
While speaking with the woman, the officer noticed her eyes were bloodshot, her breath smelled of alcohol and she moved sluggishly while looking for her driver’s license and proof of insurance. The officer also noticed two cans of alcohol in the cup holders, police said. The officer asked the woman if she had drunk alcohol; she denied it, but when the officer asked about the two cans, the woman said she had only had those two drinks. After the woman did not identify herself for several minutes, the officer patted her down outside of the car and asked her to submit to field sobriety testing.
During the tests, the woman’s eyes did not move smoothly, and she did not complete the walk-and-turn test properly. She also continually put her foot down for balance while standing on one leg. The woman declined to take a preliminary breath test after finishing the field sobriety tests.
The officer arrested her and took her to be processed at the Berwyn Police Department for driving under the influence of alcohol, without a driver’s license on her person and for doing so illegally with open alcohol. The woman’s car was towed. At the station, the woman declined to take another chemical breath test and declined to answer questions from police. She stated she had a previous DUI and that she knew she had messed up, police said.
Police provided the woman with copies of her citations, court information and her tow receipt for being released on pretrial conditions.
These items were obtained from the Riverside Police Department reports dated Feb. 23 and the Brookfield Police Department reports dated Feb. 24 to March 3; 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.
