Riverside police arrested a woman April 20 for driving drunk.
Around 2:30 a.m., a Brookfield police officer reported to Riverside police that he was behind a car with a shredded front-right tire and a driver who appeared to be sleeping at the intersection of Forest and First avenues. A Riverside officer arrived and observed the driver, a woman, appeared awake but disoriented with the car in drive. Police asked the woman to open the car door and put the vehicle into park before turning it off.
According to police, there was “an overwhelming odor” of alcohol inside the car. The Brookfield officer asked the woman to step out of her car, at which time she turned the car back on. When police did get the woman to step to the back of her car, they saw she had urinated on herself.
The Riverside officer asked the woman to take field sobriety testing. While the officer administered a test of the woman’s eye movements, the woman did not follow the stimulus and “was visibly swaying to and fro,” police said, while the officer could smell alcohol on her breath. When the officer asked the woman to take the walk-and-turn test, placing one foot after another heel-to-toe, the woman nearly fell over while trying to get into position. The officer determined the woman was too intoxicated to complete the tests and arrested her for driving drunk based on the other indicators.
Police transported the woman to central lockup in Berwyn, where they charged her for driving under the influence, use of an unsafe tire and improperly parking on the roadway. While in route, the woman repeatedly said she was “so drunk” and that she needed to use the bathroom; when they arrived, an officer noticed a puddle of urine on the floor of the squad car. The woman slurred her words when asked identifying questions. When taking a chemical breath test, the woman made six attempts but did not blow correctly to give a sample; police said she was “sucking in like she was drinking out of a straw” rather than blowing out into the breathalyzer.
After processing the woman on her charges, police returned her items to her and advised her to call someone to pick her up. The woman struggled to order an Uber and repeatedly tried to launch a FaceTime video call to her son despite the police telling her to make a voice call. The woman eventually called her son, who ordered her a ride share home. Police released the woman on pretrial conditions with a June 6 court date.
These items were obtained from the Riverside Police Department reports dated April 20 and the Brookfield Police Department reports dated April 21-28 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.
