While on patrol about 12:34 a.m. on Sept. 22, a man flagged down police on the 4400 block of Prairie in Brookfield and told officers that three men had just waved a gun in his face and fired a shot. 

Riverside police arrested a Chicago man in connection with a burglary that occurred in the building at 5 E. Burlington St. in Riverside on Sept. 8 at 11 a.m. 

A 28-year-old North Riverside man was charged with disorderly conduct after an incident involving him and a 44-year-old woman in the parking lot of Sts. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church, 250 Woodside Road, led to a lockdown of the preschool there and a manhunt involving two police K-9 units on Sept. 13.

A man described by a witness as "homeless looking" reportedly entered an apartment in the building at 5 E. Burlington St. in Riverside on Sept. 8 at about 11 p.m., grabbing some food and a sports drink out of the refrigerator in the kitchen while the tenant was out smoking a cigarette.

A 70-year-old Riverside man died Sept. 4 after a handrail gave way as he painted a stairwell, causing him to fall more than 20 feet from the rear second-floor landing of an apartment building in downtown Riverside.

Brookfield police charged an 18-year-old Brookfield man and a 17-year-old juvenile with assault and disorderly conduct after he allegedly threatened a teenager as he walked with friends in the 8600 block of Brookfield Avenue on Aug. 21 at 3:55 p.m.

Lightning damaged a wall atop a Brookfield condo building on Sept. 3, but no one was hurt and the building suffered no structural damage.

North Riverside police charged a local man with theft after he reportedly took a bag containing cosmetics from the front porch of a home in the 2200 block of 19th Avenue while he was delivering fliers in the neighborhood.

The woman Riverside's police chief called "one of the worst DUI offenders in the United States" was sentenced to 24 months' probation after pleading guilty to one count of felony driving under the influence on Aug. 20 in front of Judge Ramon Ocasio III at the Maybrook courthouse.

A soldier at the National Guard Armory, 8660 Cermak Road in North Riverside, called police on Aug. 8 at 5:30 p.m. after a man who had been turned away from the base twice that day was seen trying to climb the security fence near the main entrance.