Two people arrested after giving false names and ages to police during traffic stop

A 27-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman were arrested July 7 in Riverside after a patrol officer said he noticed their car’s license plates were suspended.

Around 5 a.m., the officer was driving south on South Harlem Avenue when he saw a car heading in the same direction “with suspended license plates.” After parking the car near Robinson Road, the officer approached the driver, who gave her name and a birthdate of 1993, police said. When asked for her driver’s license, the woman said she had left hers at home and had not provided proof of insurance. The officer also asked the man in the passenger seat for his identification, which he said he did not have, before giving his name and a birthdate of 1998.

According to police, the officer checked the information of the two men in the police database. The woman’s information came back clear, but with no trace of a driver’s license, while the man’s information was not found. After learning this, the officer asked the woman to get out of the car to talk. The officer told her that they would have to take her to the station to verify her identity by taking her fingerprints.

At that point, police said, the woman lowered her head before raising it and telling the officer her real name, which was not the name she had originally given, and that she was actually born in 1994. After checking the woman’s real name against the database, the officer discovered that her driver’s license was suspended, so they took her into custody.

After placing the woman in the police car, the officer told the man that the car would have to be towed unless he could produce a valid driver’s license. The man responded that he did not have one and agreed to get out of the car. After doing so, the man asked to retrieve his medication from the glove compartment, but the officer said they would take it instead. After finding the medication, the officer noticed that the name and 1997 date of birth on the prescription did not match the information the man had provided.

The man admitted that was his real name and said he gave another name because people called him that. After checking the man’s information in the database, the officer learned that there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest and took him into custody.

After taking the two people to the police station, police were able to take their fingerprints and verify their real identities. The woman was charged with lying about her identity, driving with a suspended license, driving a car with a suspended registration and driving a car without insurance. The man was charged with lying about his identity.

The man posted bail on his warrant, so both people were released and scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 16, police said.

Arrested for domestic violence

A 42-year-old Brookfield woman was arrested July 11 after her ex-boyfriend told police she scratched and bit him during an argument.

A Brookfield police officer was dispatched to a residence in the 9300 block of Jackson Avenue around 3:25 a.m. for a domestic violence report. After arriving, the officer said he spoke with the man who called police, who was standing outside. He told the officer that he and his ex-girlfriend had gone out for drinks at the Off Broadway Pub earlier in the evening and that after they returned home, his ex-girlfriend gave him her phone, which the man said was receiving notifications from “what appeared to be her new boyfriend,” police said.

The man told the officer that the topic of the woman’s new boyfriend sparked a verbal argument between the two. The man said his ex-girlfriend began scratching and biting him when he refused to give her back his phone, leaving marks that the officer could see, before she began throwing things around the living room. The man said he did not hit the woman at all and that he called 911 after he got away from her.

The officer then went to the basement, where the woman was with her son, who said he arrived home after the argument and did not see her. Once he got home, the son said, he took his mother downstairs because he saw she was upset.

When speaking to the officer, the woman confirmed that she and her ex-boyfriend had been drinking at the Off Broadway pub, but she said she had not thrown anything in the living room. She confirmed that they had argued, but she denied assaulting her ex-boyfriend. According to police, she would not talk further and the officer did not observe any visible injuries on her.

At that point, the officer took the woman into custody on a domestic violence charge and transported her to the North Riverside Police Department for arraignment and to await her bail hearing. After arriving, the woman said she did not want to talk about the incident and did not sign her Miranda warning, police said. The woman was arraigned on her single domestic violence charge and waited in a cell until she was taken to the Maybrook Courthouse for her bail hearing, police said.

These items were obtained from Riverside Police Department reports dated July 6-10 and Brookfield Police Department reports dated July 8-15 and represent a portion of the incidents police responded to. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and the cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report a suspect’s race 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 assistance in making an arrest.