Brookfield police arrested a 19-year-old Chicago man on June 12 for unlawful use of a weapon.
Around 11:30 p.m., officers were dispatched to the intersection of Brookfield and Maple avenues on a report of a white Tesla that was stopped in the roadway facing south on Maple toward the train tracks. The officers pulled their squad car up behind the Tesla and approached it, seeing a man who appeared to be asleep in the driver’s seat.
The officers woke the man up by knocking on the car window and asked him to step out of his vehicle and around to the back. While he was walking, officers noticed he was holding an object inside the front pocket of his hoodie. One officer asked the man what he was holding, but he said nothing and began to turn away from the officers. One of the officers reached out and felt an L-shaped object they believed to be a gun based on previous experience.
The officer called out the gun, grabbed the man’s left arm and told him not to move. Officers escorted the man to the trunk of the car, where they bent him over it and handcuffed his hands behind his back. Then, police removed the object from the man’s pocket, which they confirmed to be a black Glock 43 handgun with an extended magazine. The gun also had a switch attached to the upper sliding portion, according to police, which is an illegal addition that makes the semi-automatic pistol capable of fully automatic firing.
Police ran the man’s information through the police database, LEADS, and learned he did not have a firearm owner’s identification card (FOID), which is required to own or possess guns in Illinois. Police arrested the man and transported him to lockup in Berwyn, where they read him his Miranda warning. The man told police he had purchased the gun for $1,000 from someone in Chicago.
Police contacted the State’s Attorney’s Office, and an assistant state’s attorney approved two felony charges, one for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and one for aggravated possession of an automatic machine gun. Police charged the man with both felonies as well as two counts of possession of firearm ammunition without a FOID.
Public intoxication
Brookfield police on June 9 intervened after a caller reported a case of public intoxication.
Around 6 p.m., an officer responded to Ehlert Park after dispatchers from West Central Consolidated Communications reported a call about a man in the park “standing by the concession stand screaming at people,” police said. Upon arriving at the park, the officer encountered the man sitting and drinking a 24-ounce beer.
The officer dumped the man’s beer out and told him drinking alcohol is illegal in the park before the man got up and left without incident.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated June 8-15; 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.
