Brookfield police on July 30 arrested a 39-year-old Brookfield man for driving drunk.
Around 3 a.m., an officer saw a parked car on the 8800 block of Burlington Avenue with the driver’s door open. The officer stopped and made contact with the sleeping driver, who they woke up due to parking on the block being illegal from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. The man asked the officer to close the door, but the officer asked for his driver’s license. The man informed the officer that his license was in the backseat before grabbing a bag from the center console.
The man showed the officer a glass bottle with a pink liquid inside before failing to follow the officer’s instruction to provide his driver’s license. The man grabbed a bag from the backseat and tried to hand the officer two cell phones before the man, after multiple requests, allowed the officer to go through his bag. The officer ran the man’s Florida driver’s license, which came back clear and valid.
During this interaction, the officer noticed a bottle of Grey Goose vodka on the man’s passenger seat, which the man said belonged to a friend he had just dropped off at the train station. At the man’s behest, the officer smelled the glass bottle with the pink substance, which police said did not smell of alcohol, as well as a silver thermos, which did smell of alcohol. The man started to walk away from the scene before the officer placed him under arrest, at which point the man became combative and did not comply with the officer’s orders.
While the officer transported the man to the police station, the man made racist remarks and other negative comments to the officers. After a 20-minute observation period, the man declined to take a chemical breath test and said he was having trouble breathing. Firefighter paramedics transported the man to LaGrange Memorial Hospital and, after he was medically cleared, police set a Sept. 8 court date for the charge of driving under the influence and released the man.
Expired license plates
Brookfield police ticketed an 18-year-old Chicago woman on July 31.
Around 12:21 a.m., an officer was on patrol on the 4100 block of Eberly Avenue running license plates when they observed a red car with suspended plates due to a lack of mandatory insurance.
The officer activated their squad car’s emergency lights and pulled the car over. The officer made contact with the driver, requesting backup from a Spanish-speaking officer due to a language barrier. Once a second officer arrived, police informed the woman of the reason for the traffic stop.
The woman told officers she did not have insurance on the vehicle or a driver’s license. The officers told her that they would ticket her and her vehicle would be towed. Police issued citations to the woman for driving without a valid license, for driving a motor vehicle with suspended plates and for driving a motor vehicle without insurance.
Police had the car towed and set a Sept. 8 court date for the woman.
Going more than twice the speed limit
Brookfield police ticketed a 40-year-old Chicago man on July 31 for speeding.
Around 3:23 p.m., an officer was on patrol on the 8800 block of 31st Street when they observed a white car heading west at a speed of 64 mph in the posted 30-mph zone. The officer followed the car and activated their squad car’s emergency lights to conduct a traffic stop near the intersection with Prairie Avenue.
The officer made contact with the driver and explained the reason for the stop. The man provided the officer with a valid driver’s license and proof of insurance on the vehicle. The officer said he would be issuing one citation to the man for speeding between 26 and 34 mph over the speed limit.
The officer set an Aug. 25 court date in Maywood and released the man from the scene without further incident.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated July 27 to Aug. 2; 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.
