Brookfield police arrested a 32-year-old Cicero woman on Jan. 7 for driving drunk.
Around 11:50 p.m., an officer on patrol on the 9100 block of Ogden Avenue witnessed a white Jeep traveling east at 57 mph along the 30-mph street. The officer initiated a traffic stop at the 8800 block, and the car pulled over on the 8600 block.
The officer made contact with the driver, who they saw had watery eyes and who was chewing minty gum. The officer asked the driver why she took so long to pull over; she said she was looking for a place to stop to avoid impeding traffic, but police noted the lack of traffic due to the late hour and that the woman passed multiple side streets that she could have pulled over onto. The officer also noticed the woman was slurring her words, police said.
The officer asked the woman for her driver’s license and proof of insurance. The woman said she would need to find her phone to provide proof of insurance due to it being in her purse, which had fallen, but the officer noted that the woman’s phone was mounted to her windshield. The woman said she was coming home from work at a restaurant in Chicago and that she had consumed two glasses of wine around 10:30 p.m.
The woman agreed to take field sobriety tests, during which she struggled with her balance and did not properly follow instructions. She declined to provide a breath sample for a preliminary breath test.
The officer arrested the woman for driving under the influence and transported her to the police station. After a 20-minute observation period, the woman declined again to take a chemical breath test. The woman acknowledged her rights after a Miranda warning and did not answer police’s questions.
The officer issued the woman citations for speeding around 30 mph over the speed limit and driving under the influence of alcohol. Police set a Feb. 10 court date for the woman and escorted her to the lobby, where they released her from custody and she said she would wait for a ride home.
Police called to traffic altercation
Brookfield police on Jan. 8 responded to a call of a traffic dispute, but no one was arrested.
One driver called police and reported he was being followed by another driver due to a dispute at a Starbucks drive-thru in Lyons. He said he was driving to the police department. Upon arriving, the man spoke with an officer, to whom he said the other driver got angry with him for cutting her in the drive-thru line. The man said the woman was “yelling” and “banging on his hood” before she started to follow him from the Starbucks.
The woman admitted to her behavior and said it was an overreaction. She agreed to leave the man alone, and police continued speaking with her while the man left to ensure she would not follow him.
False fire alarm due to hotdogs
On Jan. 6, Brookfield police and firefighters responded to a report of a structure fire, though there was ultimately no fire.
Around 7:07 p.m., officers were informed of the report. Upon arriving at the apartment complex, police were informed by firefighters that there was no fire coming from the building, though there was smoke that had failed to ventilate.
Officers spoke to the man whose apartment the spoke was coming from, who explained he had been cooking hotdogs on the stove when he walked into another room. He said he did not see or smell smoke until he heard a neighbor knocking on his door to alert him of it. The man said he was not injured and that the cookware was only minorly damaged.
Police and firefighters left the scene after confirming the apartment complex was clear of smoke.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated Jan. 5-12; 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.
