Brookfield police ticketed a 42-year-old Chicago man on June 3 after learning his vehicle’s registration had been suspended.
Around 9:35 p.m., an officer on patrol was driving behind a black Jeep. After running the Jeep’s license plate number, the officer learned its registration had been suspended due to a lack of insurance. The officer followed behind the vehicle before conducting a traffic stop on the 4200 block of Vernon Avenue.
The officer made contact with the driver, who could not provide his driver’s license or proof of insurance at the officer’s request. After “further investigating,” the officer learned the man’s license had also been suspended due to an unpaid financial obligation, according to police.
The officer issued citations to the man for driving on a suspended registration, operating an uninsured vehicle and driving on a suspended license. The officer provided the man with cite and release paperwork and told him he could not drive the vehicle, which had been legally parked on Vernon Avenue. The officer set a June 23 court date for the man, who was sent on his way and left the scene on foot.
Stolen cell phone
On June 1, Brookfield police responded to a report of a theft, but no one was arrested.
Around 1 a.m., an officer arrived at the 8900 block of Ogden Avenue in response to the report and spoke with a resident, who said a member of the home had his cell phone stolen by an unknown man. The resident said she had video footage capturing the incident.
In the footage that police watched, the unknown man was seen holding the phone after the owner had voluntarily handed it to him before leaving the camera’s field of view. The man continued to look at the phone before placing it in his pants pocket and leaving the field of view, police said.
The officer spoke with the phone’s owner, who said he had been talking with the other man and believed him to be friendly. He said he handed him the phone several times to show him pictures and that he only realized his phone was missing after the interaction. He said the phone did not have location services enabled to track it.
Around 9:30 p.m. that night, an officer followed up at the residence and made contact with someone from the home, who said the residents were not present to grant access to the video footage again. The person told the officer the phone had been found and returned to cleaning staff at the residence, as it had been taken by accident.
Police made contact with the complainant over the phone after several attempts and took no further action.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated June 1-8; 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.
