On Feb. 19, Brookfield police responded to the intersection of 31st Street and Park Avenue after a passerby called to report a man wearing a neon construction vest who had been holding a poster that read “Buy Weed Here.” An officer located the man and informed him of the complaint. The man said he was against the possibility that the storefront at 9046 31st St. could soon be used to open a cannabis dispensary. He declined to provide his information to the officer, and police took no further action.
The village board voted last week to prevent the dispensary from going in.
Man with missing headlight cited
Brookfield police ticketed a 51-year-old Chicago man on Feb. 18 after observing his vehicle was missing a headlight.
Around 12:12 a.m., officers were conducting patrol and heading south on Prairie Avenue when they observed a northbound car missing its driver side headlight. The officers made a U-turn and pulled the vehicle over at the intersection of Prairie and Ogden avenues.
After the officers made contact with the driver, he identified himself and said he did not have a driver’s license. Police ran the man’s name in combination with his birthdate through the database and confirmed his license had been suspended.
Police cited the man for his inoperative headlight and for driving on a suspended license. They set a March 10 court date and sent the man on his way with the passenger, whose driver’s license came back clear, in control of the car.
Wheaton man caught with expired registration
Brookfield police on Feb. 17 ticketed a 21-year-old Wheaton man for driving with an expired registration tag.
Around 7:16 p.m., an officer on routine patrol observed the man’s car with the expired tag on display. The officer ran the license plate number through the police database, which returned the name of the vehicle’s owner and confirmed that the registration had expired.
The officer initiated a traffic stop at the intersection of Ogden and Park avenues and spoke with the driver of the vehicle, who provided an expired driver’s license. A run through the database told the officer the license expired in January.
The officer issued two citations to the man and set a court date of March 10 before sending him on his way.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated Feb. 16-23; 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.
