Brookfield police on Oct. 31 charged a 46-year-old Brookfield man who hosted a Halloween house party for juveniles with keeping a disorderly house.
Around 8 p.m., two officers responded to a residence on Washington Avenue to a report of a loud noise complaint and found a scene they described as “a house party with possible underage drinking,” according to police. The officers made contact with the homeowner, who said his son was hosting a Halloween party and kids had begun arriving uninvited by coming into his backyard via Rockefeller Avenue.
The man told police that there was no underage drinking taking place on his property, but he said he didn’t know how many juveniles were in his backyard. The man told police he would end the party and clear out the crowd. Police watched as more than 100 juveniles exited the backyard and filtered into the neighborhood, where they “began to congregate” near other homes and Kiwanis Park, police said. Police said the juveniles who left the party left trash near some residences and caused other calls to police that night.
Police charged the man with a local ordinance violation for keeping a disorderly house. According to Brookfield’s municipal code, it is illegal for anyone to keep a “disorderly house” in which they “knowingly” keep their home so “bawdy or disorderly” that it endangers the community, where someone is allowed to make “any loud or raucous noise,” or where minors are permitted to gamble or people under 21 years of age can consume alcohol.
Alleged fight at a house party
Brookfield police responded to a report of a fight in progress at a juvenile house party on Nov. 1, but no one was charged.
Around 10 p.m., officers were dispatched to a residence on Eberly Avenue on a complaint that people were fighting at an “underage drinking party,” according to police. Upon arrival, the officers observed juveniles running away in the alley.
Police made contact with an adult, who said he had been inside the entire time and that no fight took place. The man permitted police to enter the residence, where they observed about 40 juveniles but did not see any evidence of underage drinking or of a fight inside or outside the residence.
Police exited the residence and advised the man he could be cited for a local ordinance violation if the complainant wanted to sign one against him, which he acknowledged. The man said he would begin to have his son’s friends leave shortly, and officers left the scene without taking further action.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated Oct. 27 to Nov. 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.
