Brookfield police arrested a 19-year-old Chicago man on June 12 for unlawful use of a weapon.
Around 11:30 p.m., officers were dispatched to the intersection of Brookfield and Maple avenues on a report of a white Tesla that was stopped in the roadway facing south on Maple toward the train tracks. The officers pulled their squad car up behind the Tesla and approached it, seeing a man who appeared to be asleep in the driver’s seat.
The officers woke the man up by knocking on the car window and asked him to step out of his vehicle and around to the back. While he was walking, officers noticed he was holding an object inside the front pocket of his hoodie. One officer asked the man what he was holding, but he said nothing and began to turn away from the officers. One of the officers reached out and felt an L-shaped object they believed to be a gun based on previous experience…