Crime & Safety

Police Report: Fight Outside Hooters and a Three-Legged Deer

Latest police calls also include underage drinking, school property damage and mailbox tampering.

A deer missing one leg limped around the backyards of some Bunker Hill Drive homes this week, prompting at least two concerned residents to call police for help.

One woman at 260 Bunker Hill Drive told officers she saw a deer with one leg that appeared to be bitten off by coyotes. Another neighbor said he could see out his back window that a leg and some tissue were missing on the deer's hind quarters.

There were conflicting reports as to whether the deer was mobile, but when officers arrived, the deer could not be found. The was notified. 

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In other police calls this week: 

  • Officers were investigating a report that a middle-aged man tried to grab and possibly abduct a young girl as she walked out of the restrooms in the mall's Food Court about 4 p.m. Monday.
    A woman told police that a white man in his 40s with short, blonde hair wearing a black sweatshirt and blue jeans tried to grab a girl who was 6 or 7 years old. The man did not speak to the girl before leaving, the woman said.
    Officers did not find a man and notified other police departments while continuing to investigate.
  • Police fielded several phone calls from motorists concerned about poor visibility due to snow mounds at intersections and ends of driveways. 
  • Officers removed a washing machine from traffic at North Lilly Road and Newhall Drive about 5:45 p.m. Monday and placed it back on a parked trailer.
  • Police are continuing to investigate whether to recommend charges in connection with a fight outside  near the end of the Super Bowl. No one was seriously injured in the fight, which witnesses told police was "started over somebody smoking in the parking lot," according to the reports.
  • A woman called police about 6:15 p.m. Sunday to say she thought she saw legs sticking out of a snow bank near North 126th Street and W. Lisbon Road. It turned out it was a pair of pants and boots stuck on the end of two-by-fours.
  • Traffic signals for the railroad crossing at North Brookfield Road were acting up about 1 p.m. Sunday. Officers notified CP Rail representatives, who said they would investigate but it might be that a train stopped close to sensors, making the traffic signals move up and down a few times.
  • Four 17-year-olds received municipal underage drinking tickets for allegedly drinking alcohol at the during Brookfield East High School's Senior Ball Saturday night. A band member reported suspicious activity in the banquet room. After investigating, police called the teens' parents after 9 p.m. to come pick them up.
  • An unknown mixture of soda, Italian salad dressing and seasonings was found inside the mailbox of a Beaumont Avenue resident Saturday evening. The damage was minimal, mainly junk mail getting wet, and the resident did not know who might be responsible.
  • A 42-year-old man has been charged with fourth offense drunken driving causing injury after being involved in a three-vehicle accident Saturday outside , 19485 Lisbon Rd. 
    Officers shut down Lisbon Road in both directions shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday. The man charged told police he had drank two beers at the Cardinal Club in Butler before heading home to Hartland. A preliminary breath test produced a blood-alcohol result of 0.193. 
    Details of the crash were not available, but a woman was taken to Elmbrook Memorial Hospital for injuries to her should and leg. The 42-year-old man has three prior convictions for drunken driving — in 1989, '97 and '99.
  • A 15-year-old boy was issued a municipal citation for alleged possession of a controlled substance at Brookfield Square mall. Mall security called police after finding the boy trying to flush drugs down a toilet shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday.
  • A High School student said a Dairyland school bus struck her Dodge Stratus on Saturday. The school bus driver left a note on her car.
  • A High School student was cited Friday for municipal criminal damage to property after smashing a school computer keyboard into a monitor. The 17-year-old boy reacted angrily when a teacher turned off the computer after the boy ignored repeated requests to turn it off, the reports said.
  • , 1619 W. Blue Mound Rd., filed a complaint on a worthless check submitted for a $3,457 women's 18k watch. The bank account on which the check was written had been closed. 
  • Firefighters  took care of a gas leak shortly before 5 a.m. Feb. 2 in the 2400 block of Hillsdale Drive. Residents were evacuated after reporting a smell of gas. Firefighters cleared away snow from a blocked furnace exhaust pipe.
  • Police also cleared snow from a blocked furnace exhaust pipe after the blizzard for an elderly woman in the 15500 block of Franklin Drive about 11 a.m. Feb. 2. The woman said her door was blocked with snow and she couldn't get outside to clear it herself.
  • Two snow plow disputes were lodged with police during last week's blizzard. 
    In one, a city highway worker operating a plow truck said a Parkmoor Drive resident flagged him down to complain about snow being pushed into the end of his driveway. The city worker said as he started driving away, the resident jumped up onto the cab and grabbed the worker's arm. The man told police he did not do that. 
    In the second incident, a caller told police he saw a private plow truck try to run into a city plow truck when the city worker was not inside it. 

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