Police investigate multiple car burglaries in Brookfield - Riverside-Brookfield Landmark (2025)

Brookfield police learned of multiple vehicle burglaries that took place on March 31.

• Around 7:30 a.m., a resident contacted police after finding a black bag in the middle of the street. Police retrieved the bag, which they said contained clothing and a work ID, and found the ID’s owner lived on the 9100 block of Roach Avenue. Police called the woman, who said she believed someone had burglarized her car overnight; she said there were no signs of forced entry but that the car “appeared to be rifled through.” The woman retrieved the bag from police later that day.
• Police responded around 3:40 p.m. to the 3100 block of Oak Avenue after a resident told them she had observed miscellaneous items moved around within her unlocked car. The woman said she was also missing about $2 in coins and $130 in gift cards that were taken from the center console. The woman told police her Ring doorbell camera did not capture footage of anyone entering her car.
• A resident on the 3200 block of Sunnyside Avenue told police around 11:20 a.m. that her home exterior camera had captured three people going through her and her boyfriend’s cars around 2:50 a.m. that morning, though she said nothing appeared to be missing.
• Police responded on April 1 to the 4200 block of Madison Avenue after a resident said someone had entered his unlocked vehicle over the past few days. He said he found the glovebox and center console open and was missing a Cobb Tuning car programmer worth $600. He provided police with footage from a neighbor’s camera that showed a man around 10 p.m. on March 31 walking away from the area of the car, but police noted the motion-activated camera did not start recording until the man was already away from the car.
• Around 11 a.m., a resident of the 3100 block of Maple Avenue told police at the station that a handgun had been stolen from a lockbox that was stored underneath the driver’s seat in his car, which he had left unlocked overnight. The man provided police with home video footage of two men exiting a car around 3:03 a.m. who checked the man’s car and another in the same driveway. One man took an Amazon package from the other car while the other took an unidentified object from the man’s car. Police investigated village cameras in the area and ran the plates of the men’s car, which revealed it was an Enterprise rental car. Police tracked the two men to the 7-Eleven at the intersection of Ogden and East avenues but were unable to learn identifying information about them from a transaction they made.

Caught driving without a license

Riverside police arrested a man March 31 for driving with a suspended license.

Around 4:05 p.m., an officer was on patrol running cars’ registrations while heading southeast on Riverside Road when they came across a car whose registration appeared to have been suspended due to the car previously being driven without insurance as mandated by state law.

The officer pulled the car over near Blackhawk Road and asked the driver for his driver’s license and proof of insurance, neither of which he was able to provide. The man did give the officer an Illinois ID card, and after running the man’s information, the officer learned his license had been suspended after he failed to appear in court for a previous citation.

The officer arrested the man and issued him citations at the central lockup in Berwyn before releasing him on pre-trial conditions.

These items were obtained from the Riverside Police Department reports dated March 31 and the Brookfield Police Department reports dated March 31 to April 7; 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.

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