On July 15, Brookfield police responded to a report of a reckless driver, but they didn’t arrest anyone.
Around 7:24 p.m., an officer responded to the intersection of Ogden and East avenues for the report and met the complainant at the village’s fire station #1. The officer made contact with the woman, who said she had been driving east on Ogden Avenue when another vehicle apparently tried to strike her own because she did not let it merge into her lane. When the two vehicles came to a stop at a red light, the driver of the other vehicle got out of it and approached her vehicle, spitting on the driver’s window before getting back into the vehicle and driving south on Maple Avenue.
The woman said she would be willing to sign complaints of local ordinance violations. The officer told her police would review cameras from the area to see if they could observe the incident and would get back to her. The woman shared the license plate number of the offending vehicle that she had recorded.
Police learned the identity of the second driver through a search of the Spillman public safety software and attempted to contact him at home and over the phone unsuccessfully. Police later contacted the woman to explain their results, at which point she said she no longer wished to sign the complaints. She reported to the police department the next day to sign a refusal form.
Blackmailed with explicit photos
Brookfield police on July 17 assisted a man who was being extorted for money through a hookup app.
Around 1 a.m., the man arrived at the police department to report a complaint over telephone harassment and extortion. The man met with an officer and explained that around 12:40 a.m., he had made contact with an unknown man through the online hookup app Sniffies. Shortly after they made contact, the two exchanged photos, the man said, including sexually explicit photos, and shared cell phone numbers to make plans to meet in-person.
The man said the other person began sending texts demanding money and threatening to distribute the explicit photos to his friends and family, at which point he arrived at the police department to report the incident. The man said he had not sent any money.
During his conversation with an officer, the other person called the man’s phone multiple times. At one point, the officer answered one of the calls and identified himself, at which point the caller immediately hung up. The officer tried to return the call in an effort to collect the other person’s information but learned they had blocked the man’s number.
Police advised the man to cease communication with the other suspect and to block their number and profile on the app.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated July 13-20; 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.
