A Lyons man arrested in October 2017 and charged with unlawful use of a weapon by a felon following an altercation involving two other men on the Barrypoint Road bridge has been sentenced to three years in prison for the offense.

North Riverside police continue to hunt for a man who robbed a 57-year-old woman at gunpoint outside her 6th Avenue home on Jan. 17 at about 6:40 p.m.

An attempt to defraud an 89-year-old Brookfield man of $8,500 was narrowly averted last week after his son intervened and told him to call police.

Riverside police charged a 25-year-old Lyons woman with drunken driving and cited her for several traffic offenses after she reportedly crashed her 2003 Cadillac into a cellphone utility building in the 3400 block of First Avenue, next to the cellphone tower at Riverside-Brookfield High School, on Dec. 30 at about 2:40 a.m.

A 78-year-old Brookfield man reported missing from his home on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, was found unharmed, but disoriented early on Christmas Day some 150 miles away in Dane County, Wisconsin.

Officials at North Riverside Park Mall, 7501 Cermak Road, ordered the shopping center shut down at about 5 p.m. on Dec. 29 and called in a large police presence to disperse crowds and turn away anyone trying to enter.

An 84-year-old Riverside woman received a pair of traffic tickets on Dec. 27 after she drove into Brookfield Zoo through a driveway used by staff and wound up crashing into a concrete post on the south mall inside the zoo grounds while being escorted out by police.

A Chicago man has been charged with burglary after allegedly breaking into the former Texor Petroleum building — soon to be the central administrative offices for Riverside School District 96 — at 3340 Harlem Ave. during the early morning hours of Dec. 19.

A man who eluded a full-scale police manhunt by convincing a Riverside resident to let him into his home just after midnight on Aug. 11 and call for a ride out of town was apprehended by Chicago police last week and now has been charged by Riverside police.

Riverside police charged a 20-year-old former student with one count of criminal trespassing and one count of disorderly conduct after he was involved in a disturbance inside Riverside-Brookfield High School, 160 Ridgewood Road, on Dec. 12 about 7:15 a.m.