Brookfield police arrested an 18-year-old Melrose Park man on May 27 after police were dispatched on a report of a domestic disturbance that was later reclassified as trespassing.
Around 11:16 p.m., an officer arrived at the 4000 block of Grove Avenue after dispatchers advised the complainant said a man was inside of his home and “aggressively” refusing to leave, according to police. Upon arrival, the officer observed the man standing on the front porch of the home with someone else. The officer separated them and spoke first with the man.
The man told police he had just gotten off of work and arrived to pick someone up when he saw the front door was open. The man said he rang the doorbell and someone else answered the door and began yelling at him, sparking an argument in which the man was asked to leave.
Another officer met with the man and spoke in Spanish, and the man said he was there to pick someone up when he was invited into the home by someone else, which made him angry due to the late hour. The two began arguing until the man was told to leave the house, at which point he said the other person pushed him out of the residence.
The officer also spoke with the other person, who said the man let himself into the residence in order to argue. The person said they calmly asked the man multiple times to leave. The person said they pushed the man back only when he tried to force his way further into the residence.
Officers also spoke with a woman who had been inside the residence, who corroborated the second person’s story of events with the man trying to push his way inside after being asked to leave.
An officer spoke with the man again, and he denied there having been a physical altercation in the first place and that he tried to push the door open.
At 11:51 p.m., after hearing all of the statements, officers arrested the man for criminal trespass and transported him to the Brookfield Police Department. At 12:44 a.m. on May 28, the officer read the man his Miranda warning, and the man declined to answer further questions.
Police charged the man with one count of criminal trespass to a residence and set a June 23 court date before transporting him back to his vehicle, which had been legally parked near the residence.
Burglar alarms going off
Brookfield police responded to two separate instances of false burglar alarms going off on May 30. No one was arrested.
First, around 8 a.m., an officer responded to the 4400 block of Prairie Avenue on a report of an alarm. The officer made contact with a man at the residence, who said he was a plumber and that he had set the alarm off in error. The man said he had disarmed the alarm with the passcode just before the officer arrived. He showed the officer proof of having texted the resident about the alarm going off. The officer also called the resident and left a voicemail.
Then, around 12:30 p.m., an officer responded to the 4400 block of Prairie Avenue due to a report of an alarm going off. Upon arriving, the officer spoke with a resident, who showed police the control panel of the alarm that appeared to be malfunctioning. Police found the back door to the apartment was unlocked, though they cleared all three levels of the home and did not find signs of a break-in or burglary.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated May 26 to June 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.
