Brookfield police arrested a 26-year-old Chicago man on April 11 after learning there was a warrant out for his arrest.
Around 3:30 a.m., an officer responded to the intersection of Morton and Washington avenues on a report of a loud noise complaint. There, the officer saw three people seated inside a dormant vehicle. The officer approached the passenger side of the car and spoke with a woman, advising her of the report. The officer noticed the driver was bleeding from one of his index fingers; he said he had cut himself after picking up a bottle, and the officer observed a broken glass bottle on the ground nearby.
The officer took the man’s name and learned a warrant was out for his arrest from Cook County after running his name through the police database. The officer arrested the man at 3:51 a.m. for allegedly violating the conditions of a previous release from custody and for driving under the influence.
The officer transported the man to the Brookfield Police Department, where he refused medical treatment for his finger, and the Berwyn Police Department, where he was turned over to booking personnel for processing.
Counterfeit bills
On April 13, Brookfield police took a report of a business owner, who said her employee had received two counterfeit $100 bills on Thursday, April 9, from two separate customers.
The officer asked the woman to forward video footage of the incident to the police department. The woman said she only wished to document the matter and turn the currency over to police.
The officer observed that both bills had the same serial number. They checked “investigative resources” to see if the same counterfeit currency was being circulated elsewhere but did not find evidence of such. Police inventoried the counterfeit bills and sent them to the United States Secret Service office in Chicago.
Dispute with the mailman
Brookfield police managed a dispute between a woman and a mail carrier after receiving a complaint of threats on April 10.
After an officer responded to the 3800 block of McCormick, a woman told them she had been walking two dogs when a mail carrier approached her from behind while they were walking on the sidewalk. She said one of the dogs growled at the man, so he responded by grabbing pepper spray and told the woman to move out of his way. A short time later, the woman said the mail carrier approached her again and told her to stay out of his way due to his being a federal employee.
The officer spoke with the mail carrier, who confirmed the woman’s story but justified it to the officer by saying he was trained to respond like that and that the woman needed to move out of his way due to his needing to keep a time schedule.
The officer told the man his actions were not appropriate and that he cannot expect people to immediately move out of his way, nor can he act as an aggressor and claim self-defense. The woman said she would file a complaint with the post office.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated April 7-13; 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.
