Two people believed to be suspects in an April 14 vehicular hijacking in Oak Park and a second in Cicero the following day were apprehended on April 16 following a high-speed chase that began at the North Riverside Park Mall and ended on Chicago's West Side.

A resident of the 3700 block of Morton Avenue, Brookfield, called police last week to report that sometime between 10 p.m. on April 3 and 5:30 p.m. on April 4, someone had tried to break into his home.

Riverside police say a panhandler charged with taking an unlocked bicycle from in front of Riverside Foods, 48. E. Burlington St., on March 23 is responsible for stealing at least six bicycles, perhaps more, in the village.

Riverside police arrested a Minnesota woman the village's police chief called "one of the worst DUI offenders in the United States" after a 911 call reporting a woman passed out behind the wheel of a car in the parking lot of a Harlem Avenue gas station on April 2 at about 9:30 p.m.

All the schools in Lyons-Brookfield School District 103 were placed on a soft lockdown Friday morning, after a parent of a student at Robinson School reportedly posted what could be interpreted as a threatening photo and messages on Facebook. 

Brookfield police are investigating two incidents last week where gunshots were fired, possibly randomly, during the early morning hours of March 21, in the 2900 block of Prairie Avenue and the 3500 block of Sunnyside Avenue, where a van was struck by two bullets.

A man who stepped off the platform and in front of a Metra express train in downtown Riverside on March 7 reportedly had been released earlier that day from a hospital where he'd been taken after an incident last month in Lyons.

A man who stepped off the platform and in front of a Metra express train in downtown Riverside on March 7 reportedly had been released earlier that day from a hospital where he'd been taken after an incident last month in Lyons.

Riverside police say a convicted felon charged with drunken driving and possessing a loaded handgun may have been on his way to his ex-girlfriend's home in Brookfield when he was pulled over for driving erratically on March 9 at about 3 a.m.

The number of serious crimes reported in North Riverside last year fell by 5.6 percent – roughly in line with a drop in the number of thefts reported in the village during 2017.