A 16-year-old Riverside boy has told police he was robbed at knifepoint by three men while he was jogging eastbound on the north side of Forest Avenue on Feb. 28 at about 8:15 p.m.

Shortly before midnight on Feb. 24, someone driving a black Acura SUV crashed into the Veterans Memorial Statue at Eight Corners in Brookfield and fled the scene. 

The Riverside Police Department arrested two male juveniles – a 15-year-old from Hanover Park and a 17-year-old from Roselle – they believe committed a drive-by shooting in the 200 block of East Burlington on Dec. 1. 

A 29-year-old woman from Chicago was charged with drunk driving and four other violations after her car was stuck on the railroad tracks at a railroad crossing in Riverside on early Sunday morning. 

A former Riverside man remains in custody at Cook County Jail after he was arrested for allegedly threatening to harm family members and burn down their home for failing to give him money.

A former Riverside police officer was wounded in the line of duty during a shootout between police and a suspected car thief in Colorado Springs on Feb. 5.

A 59-year-old Berwyn man faces disorderly conduct charges after he allegedly  offered to buy candy for three junior high school girls and then lectured them on race-mixing and Adolph Hitler during an encounter on East Burlington Street in Riverside on Jan. 30 at about 3:15 p.m.

A man charged with robbing a North Riverside gas station at gunpoint on Jan. 13 at about 8:20 a.m. is being held without bond at Cook County Jail while awaiting trial following his capture by police shortly after the incident.

A 68-year-old LaGrange reportedly called Riverside's non-emergency police line on five occasions during the past month, threatening to "murder" the police chief, a retired police sergeant and another Riverside police officer.

A 15-year-old Riverside boy who was charged with robbing a high school classmate earlier this month was arrested again on Jan. 29 after allegedly threatening, via social media, to shoot two Riverside-Brookfield High School students.