A man was arrested July 1 after a Riverside police officer saw him driving more than twice the speed limit.
Around 12:30 a.m. that morning, the officer was on patrol when they saw the man’s car heading north on Harlem Avenue, going 74 mph in a 30-mph zone. The officer pulled the car over near Herrick Road before approaching it to speak with the driver, police said.
During their conversation, the officer noticed the man’s eyes were bloodshot and his breath smelled of alcohol. When asked for his driver’s license, the man provided it, but the officer ran it through the police database and learned it was expired. After asking the man to step out of the car, the officer asked him where he was coming from. The man answered that he was coming from a restaurant where he had performed music. When asked if he had consumed alcohol, the man admitted he had had “four or five drinks,” police said.
As they spoke, the officer noticed a spilled cocktail glass on the passenger side floor of the car alongside ice, cut lemons and spilled liquid. When the officer asked if the glass and spilled liquid contained alcohol, the man said they did. Later, after he was arrested, the man told police he had tried to dump the drink under the passenger seat when he noticed the officer was pulling him over.
The man then agreed to take field sobriety testing, during which the officer noticed several indicators of impairment, including his struggling to keep his balance and starting during the instructions for the walk-and-turn test. The man also agreed to take a preliminary breath test after completing the field tests, but he provided three samples that did not show readings.
The officer placed the man under arrest and transported him to be booked and processed. After a 20-minute observation period, the man gave another breath sample, which showed .11 blood alcohol content. The man received four charges: three for driving drunk, including one aggravated DUI charge, and an aggravated speeding charge. He was later released, and a July 8 court date was set.
Arrested for driving with a suspended license
Riverside police arrested a man June 28 for driving on a suspended driver’s license.
An officer was on patrol around 1 a.m. that morning, driving north on Harlem Avenue, when they noticed a car heading in the same direction without any taillights on, so they pulled the car over near the intersection with Longcommon Road.
After explaining the reason for the stop, the officer asked the driver for his driver’s license and proof of insurance, which the man provided. The officer ran the man’s information through the police database, which revealed his driver’s license had been suspended following a previous DUI.
After asking the man to step out of his car, the officer arrested the man for driving with his suspended license and took him to be booked and processed. The man’s car was later towed. The man was released after being processed, and an August 16 court date was set.
Downed tree branch damages car
Brookfield police were dispatched to the 4200 block of Grove Avenue on July 2 on a report of a fallen tree branch that was blocking the roadway.
The officer was dispatched around 8 p.m. that evening. After arriving, the officer located the branch in the road and noted it appeared to have broken off a tree on the street. After looking closer, the officer saw the branch had “partially fallen” onto the hood of a nearby car registered to one of the houses on the block.
“It appeared as though the branch had caused cosmetic damage to the vehicle and may have damaged the front bumper,” police wrote in their report.
After trying to contact the registered owners to no avail, the officer left a note on their door explaining the incident.
These items were obtained from the Riverside Police Department reports dated June 28 to July 1 and the Brookfield Police Department reports dated July 1-8; 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.
