Brookfield police on March 12 were dispatched to the 3300 block of Arthur Avenue after a woman complained that she witnessed a man touching himself sexually in the parking area near Leo’s Liquors, but they did not arrest anyone.
The complainant, who called police around 2:30 p.m., said she followed the man’s vehicle from the 9100 block of Broadway Avenue to where she met police on Arthur Avenue after he left the scene heading north before turning east onto Jackson Avenue. The woman told police she did not want to pursue the matter but was “caught off-guard” when she saw the man in his car.
Police responded to the address the vehicle’s license plate was registered to, but when no one was home, they made contact over the phone with the owner, who said his son was using the vehicle and that he would tell him to contact police. The man’s son later called police, who said he had taken the car to donate blood in Maywood before stopping near Leo’s Liquors.
The man became uncooperative, police said, and said he had gone to Leo’s Smoke & Vape to purchase air fresheners. When asked, he said he did not remove his pants and that if he had been observed holding anything, it would have been an air freshener. The man also said he had a full head of hair, contrary to the complainant’s assertion earlier that the offender had been bald.
Police contacted the woman to tell her of their conversation with the man, and she said she didn’t know what she had seen. Police closed the case without arresting anyone.
Solicitation complaint
A Brookfield police officer responded to the 8500 block of Brookfield Avenue around 1:10 p.m. on March 12 on a report of an unwanted subject.
The caller, a resident on the block, alleged a man was illegally soliciting without a permit and being rude to her. When the officer arrived, they met with the man, who displayed a valid solicitation badge. The man said he had only knocked at the person’s door before she became “belligerent,” according to police. He said he believed the woman may have been racist due to his being Black.
Police sent the man on his way and spoke to the resident, who said the man had been knocking on her door too loudly for her liking. Police did not make any arrests.
Hit-and-run crash at Tony’s
On March 11, Brookfield police spoke to a walk-in complainant, who alleged a hit-and-run car crash took place earlier that day in the parking lot of Tony’s Breakfast Cafe at 8900 Ogden Ave.
The man told police he had been in his car in the parking lot when a minivan backed out of a handicap parking space and struck the front bumper of his car. The man described the offending vehicle’s driver as an elderly man and provided his vehicle’s license plate number.
Police tracked down the offending vehicle’s owner’s phone number and made contact with the driver of the minivan, who agreed to respond to the police department. There, the man said he did not recall being in the crash, only hearing the warning beeps inside the vehicle to indicate he was nearing an obstacle.
Police provided both drivers with the crash report number and advised them to contact their insurance companies. No one was arrested.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated March 11-18; they represent a portionof 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.