Brookfield police arrested a 28-year-old Berwyn man on Feb. 28 for driving drunk after he was observed speeding and driving erratically.
Around 10:30 p.m., an officer observed a car traveling southwest on the 9100 block of Broadway Avenue before it parked and the driver entered Leo’s Liquor. The officer waited and saw the man exit the store with a bag before getting back in his car and driving around Eight Corners at a high speed to turn southeast on Grand Boulevard. The officer followed the car to the intersection of Prairie and Ogden avenues, where it ignored a “No Turn on Red” sign and illegally turned right to head west on Ogden Avenue.
The car continued speeding down the road, passing the radar of another officer on patrol, who marked that it was going 56 mph in a 30-mph zone. Both officers followed the car, which was driving on the wrong side of the road with its lights off and did not yield to the emergency lights on their cars, until it turned south onto Banchan Avenue and came to a stop at Rochester Avenue.
The officers made contact with the man, who had already exited his vehicle. They smelled alcohol on his breath as he slurred his words and spoke in a confused, repetitive manner. The man apologized for not pulling over sooner and said he hadn’t realized he was speeding. The man admitted he had had one drink but said it was not alcoholic before telling police to “call a lawyer,” police said. Officers asked the man to take field sobriety testing, which he declined to do twice, before arresting him for driving under the influence.
Police transported the man to the Brookfield Police Department and had his car towed. The man again declined to take a chemical breath test before police charged him for speeding, driving recklessly, going the wrong way, disobeying the traffic light, failing to use his car’s lights, improperly using the traffic lanes and driving under the influence of alcohol.
Police set an April 21 court date, which the man verbally acknowledged but did not sign paperwork for. Police released the man to his brother in the lobby.
Speeding on a suspended license
Brookfield police on Feb. 25 arrested a 24-year-old LaGrange man for speeding.
Around 9:08 p.m., an officer was driving southwest on the 8800 block of Plainfield Road when they observed a vehicle heading northeast at 46 mph in the 30-mph zone. The officer made a U-turn and followed the vehicle, pulling it over near the intersection with Ogden Avenue in Lyons.
The officer made contact with the driver and explained the reason for the stop before he provided a driver’s license and proof of insurance. After running his information through the police database, the officer learned the man’s license had been suspended in September, which the man acknowledged he had been aware of.
The officer arrested the man, called for his car to be towed and transported him to the Brookfield Police Department, where they cited him for driving on a suspended license and for speeding. The officer set a March 24 court date and released the man with his paperwork on pre-trial conditions.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated Feb. 23 to March 2; 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.
