Brookfield police on April 21 arrested a 47-year-old Chicago woman for domestic battery.
Around 9:30 p.m., officers responded to Phil’s Sports Bar & Grill on Burlington Avenue on a report of the woman hitting a man as they were leaving the bar. Some of the officers met with the woman, who said she was arguing with the man at the bar, but she denied making physical contact with the man. While officers were standing with her, she was yelling at the man to leave together and ignoring their requests not to speak to him.
Other officers spoke to the man, who appeared intoxicated and said the woman had hit him in the face multiple times, showing police his bloodshot left eye and a bloody scratch on his right cheek.
Officers met with the complainant inside the bar, who said she had witnessed the woman taking the man’s cap off his head and striking him in the face with the cap and her fists before she asked them to leave and called police. The complainant identified the woman and man as the people she’d witnessed. Police later obtained video footage from inside the bar showing the incident.
The man told police he did not want to pursue criminal charges before firefighter paramedics took him to the hospital. Police placed the woman under arrest and transported her to lockup in Berwyn, where they took her fingerprints, read her Miranda warning and charged her with one count of domestic battery.
Caught ignoring a stop sign
Brookfield police ticketed a 20-year-old Chicago man on April 22 after his car failed to stop at a stop sign.
An officer was on patrol around 11:40 a.m. near the intersection of Shields and Eberly avenues when they observed a car disregarding the stop sign there. The officer followed the car south before pulling it over at the intersection with Sahler Avenue.
The officer approached the car and spoke to the driver, who was not able to provide his driver’s license or proof of insurance on the vehicle. The officer used the man’s state ID card to search for his information in the police database and learned it had expired.
The officer issued citations to the man for disregarding the stop sign, driving on an expired license and operating an uninsured vehicle. The officer set a May 12 court date and told the man to legally park his vehicle and wait for his parents to pick it up.
Driving while high
Brookfield police on April 22 ticketed a 35-year-old Brookfield man for driving high.
While on patrol around 3:30 p.m., the officer was driving west on Ogden Avenue near Prairie Avenue behind a blue car, which they observed swerving due to the driver reaching around inside the vehicle before seeing “a heavy billow of smoke” within the car.
The officer conducted a traffic stop on the 4100 block of Eberly Avenue and spoke to the driver, who said the car was swerving due to his being distracted by something in his car. The officer noticed a strong odor of cannabis and asked if the man had been smoking it, which he admitted. The man provided his driver’s license and proof of insurance before producing at the officer’s request a small pipe with burnt cannabis on the end and a small container with more inside.
The officer had the man step out of his car before conducting a search with the man’s consent, which did not turn up any more contraband, police said. The officer issued a citation for prohibited possession of cannabis and set an adjudication date for May 18.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated April 20-26; 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.
