Nov 06, 2024
Driver ticketed for heavily tinted windows - Riverside-Brookfield Landmark
Riverside police ticketed a man Oct. 28 whose car’s front windows were heavily tinted. While on patrol, an officer saw the man’s car near the intersection of Harlem Avenue and Blackhawk Road and
Riverside police ticketed a man Oct. 28 whose car’s front windows were heavily tinted.
While on patrol, an officer saw the man’s car near the intersection of Harlem Avenue and Blackhawk Road and pulled him over for the tinted windows. After telling the driver the reason for the stop, the officer asked for his driver’s license and proof of insurance. The man provided an Illinois ID card and said he could not find his insurance card.
The officer searched the police database and found the man did not have a valid license, so they asked the man to step out of the car and arrested him. Another officer stayed behind to ensure the car was towed while the officer took the man to be booked.
At the station, the officer learned the man’s license had been suspended.
Police cited the man for driving with a suspended license, driving without insurance and having unlawfully tinted windows. He was then released.
Brookfield police Oct. 28 investigated a complaint of a stolen steering wheel.
That morning, an officer responded to the 9100 block of Plainfield Road to speak with a resident who reported his work truck had been broken into. The man told the officer that sometime between Oct. 24 and then, someone had broken the driver’s side door lock and stripped the steering column on the truck. He said there was no other damage and nothing else was missing.
The officer photographed the scene and dusted the stripped steering column to look for fingerprints but found none. The property owner told the officer that a camera system there likely hadn’t captured the theft based on where the truck was parked. Police could not find more information, and no one was arrested.
Riverside police arrested a man Oct. 26 who had a warrant out due to missing court.
At around 2:50 a.m., an officer on patrol was told to look for a man wearing a black hoodie, as he had been involved in a “domestic disturbance” and left heading east from Pine Avenue along the train tracks.
The officer found a man matching the description who was wearing a black sweater and turning east on foot onto East Burlington Avenue from Herbert Road. When asked, the man gave a different name from that of the man in question.
After running the man’s information through the database, the officer learned the man had a warrant out for failure to appear in court in 2019 for a DUI charge out of the Village of Justice. The officer arrested the man and transported him to be booked. At the station, the man posted bond and was given a new court date.
These items were obtained from the Riverside Police Department reports dated Oct. 26-28 and the Brookfield Police Department reports dated Oct. 28 to Nov. 4; 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.
Trent Brown is a 2023 graduate from Northwestern University, where he was the editor-in-chief of campus magazine North by Northwestern. Trent previously interned at The Texas Tribune, where he covered... More by Trent Brown
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