Brookfield police created a special watch on Sept. 30 after a reckless driver was reported near a school.
Around 8:24 a.m., an officer responded to S. E. Gross Middle School on a report of a reckless driver at the intersection of Maple and Lincoln avenues. The officer met with the woman who had called police initially.
She told police she had activated the pedestrian crossing signal earlier while trying to cross the road. After looking both ways for oncoming traffic, the woman went to cross the street with her children. While they were in the crosswalk, an unidentified vehicle turned south onto Maple Avenue from the traffic circle at Eight Corners and proceeded to drive through the crosswalk without yielding to the woman and her family.
The woman told police she and her children were unharmed but that she noticed the vehicle stopped shortly after blowing through the crosswalk to give the middle finger to passersby who witnessed the incident. The woman reported the incident at the middle school and told police the car was a black, four-door sedan driven by an older man.
Police searched the area for cameras that could have captured the incident but did not find any, including any public safety cameras. The officer spoke with a neighbor who said he would check his camera footage and let police know if it did capture the incident.
Police created a special watch for the incident, but the police report did not describe anyone being arrested or cited in connection to it.
Failure to obey a stop sign
Brookfield police ticketed a 35-year-old LaGrange man on Oct. 5 after he ignored a stop sign.
Around 1:48 a.m., an officer observed a gray Jeep heading south on Prairie Avenue toward Windemere Avenue. The vehicle did not come to a full stop at the stop sign at the intersection.
The officer pulled the car over at the intersection of Brookfield and Forest avenues. The driver said he did not have a driver’s license, though the passenger did.
The officer cited the man for disregarding the stop sign and driving without having been issued a license. The officer ensured the passenger took control of the vehicle and set a Nov. 25 court date before allowing both people to continue on their way.
Car burglarized overnight
Brookfield police responded on Oct. 4 to a report of a burglarized vehicle, but no one was arrested.
Around 6:43 a.m., an officer responded to the 4500 block of Madison Avenue and spoke with a resident there who had called police, who said his car had been burglarized at some point in the night. The man said he noticed his car was unlocked with items strewn about when he went to leave his house that morning, adding he later realized he was missing the keys to some cable gun locks. The man told police he regularly locks his car and that he had ensured the vehicle was locked after 10 p.m. the prior night.
The man also said he had noticed a set of red and black jumper cables and a battery pack to jumpstart cars in the roadway that did not belong to him.
The officer canvassed the street north and south to find other vehicles that may have been burglarized but did not identify any. The officer also failed to find cameras that could have captured the incident. The man told police he has a Ring doorbell camera, but they did not capture “substantial” footage of the incident, police said.
Police brought the man new locks to secure his firearms and took the found objects into evidence. No further police action was taken.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated Sept. 29 to Oct. 6; 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.
