A 27-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman were arrested July 7 in Riverside after a patrolling officer said they noticed their car’s license plates were suspended.
Around 5 a.m., the officer was driving south on South Harlem Avenue when they saw a car headed in the same direction “with suspended registration tags.” After pulling the car over near Robinson Road, the officer approached the driver, who gave her name and a 1993 birthdate, police said. When asked for her driver’s license, the woman stated she left hers at home, and she did not provide proof of insurance. The officer also asked the man in the passenger seat for his ID, which he said he did not have before giving his name and a 1998 birthdate.
According to police, the officer ran both of their information through the police database; the woman’s information came back clear but with no record of a driver’s license while there was no record found for the man’s information. After learning this, the officer asked the woman to step out of the car to speak. The officer told her they would need to bring her to the station to verify her identity with a fingerprint inquiry.
At that point, police said, the woman put her head down before raising it again and telling the officer her real name, which was not the name she first gave, and that she was actually born in 1994. After running the woman’s real name through the database, the officer found her driver’s license was suspended, so they placed her into custody.
After placing the woman in the squad car, the officer told the man that the car would need to be towed unless he could produce a valid license. The man said he did not have one and agreed to step out of the car. After doing so, the man asked to grab his medication from the glove box, but the officer said they would grab it instead. After finding the medication, the officer noticed that the name and 1997 birthdate on the prescription did not match the information the man had given.
The man admitted that that was his real name and said he gave another name because people call him that. After running the man’s information through the database, the officer learned there was an active warrant out for the man’s arrest, so they placed him into custody as well.
After taking both people to the station, police were able to fingerprint them and verify their true identities. The woman was charged for lying about her identity, driving on a suspended license, driving a car with suspended registration and driving an uninsured car. The man was charged for lying about his identity.
The man posted bond on his warrant, so both people were released and given an August 16 court date, police said.
Arrested for domestic battery
A 42-year-old Brookfield woman was arrested July 11 after her ex-boyfriend told police she scratched and bit him during an argument.
A Brookfield police officer was dispatched to a residence on the 9300 block of Jackson Avenue around 3:25 a.m. on a report of domestic battery. After arriving, the officer said they spoke with the man who had called police, who was standing outside. He told the officer that he and his ex-girlfriend had gone out drinking to Off Broadway Pub earlier in the night and that, after they came home, his ex-girlfriend gave him her phone, which the man said was receiving notifications from “what appeared to be her new boyfriend,” police said.
The man told the officer that the topic of the woman’s new boyfriend started a verbal argument between the two. The man said that his ex-girlfriend began to scratch and bite him when he would not give her phone back to her, leaving marks that the officer could see, before she started throwing items around the living room. The man said he did not hit the woman at all and that he called 911 after he got away from her.
The officer then went into the basement, where the woman was with her son, who said he arrived home after the argument and did not see it take place. When he got home, the son said, he took his mother downstairs because he saw she was upset.
When talking to the officer, the woman confirmed she and her ex-boyfriend had been drinking at Off Broadway Pub, but she said she did not throw anything in the living room. She confirmed that they had been arguing, but she said she denied attacking her ex-boyfriend. According to police, she did not want to speak further and the officer did not observe any visible injuries to her.
At that time, the officer placed the woman into custody for domestic battery and transported her to the North Riverside Police Department for processing and to wait for bond court. After arriving, the woman said she did not wish to speak about the incident and did not sign her Miranda warning, police said. The woman was processed on her single domestic battery charge and waited in a cell until she was taken to the Maybrook courthouse for bond court, according to police.
These items were obtained from the Riverside Police Department reports dated July 6-10 and the Brookfield Police Department reports dated July 8-15; 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.
