Brookfield police arrested a 46-year-old Brookfield woman on Nov. 24 for driving under the influence.
Around 9:31 p.m., an officer responded to the intersection of Prairie and Shields avenues after police received a report of a car driving north while dragging a bicycle underneath. Upon arriving, the officer saw the car parked in the street and heard the driver and sole occupant crying as they approached. The officer asked the woman for her name, to which she said she didn’t know what was going on, police said.
The woman slurred her speech, had glossy eyes and smelled of alcohol as she continued to cry and yell while the officer spoke to her. The woman refused to exit her car when the officer asked and was assisted by another officer; then, she was seen stumbling and unable to stand on her own, police said. The woman remained uncooperative and hostile when the officer asked her what had happened. The officer checked the woman’s car and found an empty 375-milliliter bottle of tequila and an unopened can of hard punch, police said.
Firefighter paramedics arrived at the scene and advised the woman she would need to go to the hospital, but the woman continued to act hostile and refused to go until police “assisted” her onto the gurney with restraints, police said. After arriving at the hospital, the woman attempted to bite and spit at medical staff, so they sedated her, and police handcuffed her to the gurney.
At the hospital, police charged the woman with driving under the influence, illegally parking in the roadway, driving an uninsured vehicle, failing to wear a seatbelt and illegally transporting alcohol. They set a Dec. 23 court date and released her from police custody while still at the hospital.
Driver without license caught as passengers wear ski masks
Brookfield police cited a woman on Nov. 25 for driving without a license after her passengers were seen looking into businesses while wearing ski masks.
Around 12:40 a.m., an officer was patrolling 47th Street in their car when they saw three people in the parking lot of the strip mall that includes Mr. Submarine walking back and forth and looking into businesses. Two of the people were wearing black ski masks. The officer pulled into the parking lot, at which time the group split up. The officer spoke with one of them, who said she was there alone and was waiting for an Uber.
The officer then followed one of them into the laundromat there, who said she was there looking to get change from the coin machine. She then admitted she was with the first woman and that the two of them were waiting for a ride, at which point the officer saw the first woman run around the corner toward Padilla Tire Service.
While waiting for the group to “re-emerge,” the officer saw a white Hyundai quickly pull out of the Padilla parking lot and head east on Plainfield Road, police said. The officer pulled the car over just west of First Avenue with assistance from a Lyons officer. During the stop, the officer noticed the first woman was in the rear driver’s-side seat.
After the driver provided identification at the officers’ request, police learned she had never been issued a driver’s license. Police asked all four passengers, whom they noted were all dressed in black, to exit before patting them down for weapons, though none were found.
The officer spoke with the driver, who first said she had rented the car before saying someone else rented it for her, though she couldn’t say who. The driver said there were no weapons or drugs in the car and consented to a search, in which none were found. Police noted they found “multiple ski masks” in the car, including some in unopened packages, and that each of the four occupants had a ski mask in their pockets.
Police cited the driver and set a Dec. 23 court date before allowing all four people to go on their way, though police towed the car, as none of them could provide a driver’s license.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated Nov. 24 to Dec. 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.
