COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — Prosecutors say a West Side man gave some unwelcome advice to two police officers who just testified against his brother in a drug case.
"You best not remember s--- next time," the man is accused of telling the officers just steps from the courthouse Monday.
Perrin Brunt, 25, didn't just offer the advice, prosecutors said. He was also in a car that followed the officers after they drove away from the courthouse, swerving to block their path, prosecutors said.
Driving that car was a third Brunt brother — Perry Brunt, 27, according to authorities.
Now all three Brunts — Pierre, Perrin and Perry — are in trouble.
Pierre Brunt is charged in the orginal drug case. And Perrin Brunt and Perry Brunt are charged with intimidation.
Perrin Brunt, 25, allegedly told officers who arrested him Monday: "They're CPD. They're not supposed to be intimidated. I can say whatever the f--- I want to them,' " according to Assistant State's Attorney Lorraine Scaduto, who spoke at a bond hearing Wednesday.
Brunt and brother Perry, 27, had been at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Monday morning to support their older sibling, 28-year-old Pierre, who was charged with drug possession.
After court, Perrin and Perry Brunt approached the two officers in the hallway as they headed to an elevator, Scaduto alleged.
“'There go those two white mother------s,'" Perrin Brunt said, according to an arrest report.
When the police officers headed to a food truck outside the courthouse at 2650 S. California Ave. a few minutes later, Perrin and Perry Brunt were waiting for them, Scaduto said.
That's when Perrin Brunt allegedly told the officers "'You best not remember s--- next time you here,'" the arrest report said.
One of the officers asked, "Is there going to be a problem?" according to the report, and Perrin Brunt replied, "We gonna have a problem if you keep showing up to court."
That officer later got in his personal car and started driving north on California, court records show.
About six blocks up the street, a white Buick swerved in front of the officer and slammed on its brakes, Scaduto said. The car then swerved in and out of traffic, she added, and the officer called nearby on-duty police.
Perry Brunt had been driving the car, the arrest report said. He was charged with aggravated intimidating police and driving on a suspended license.
When the arresting officer told the brothers they were being stopped for intimidating police, Perrin Brunt, who'd been sitting in the front passenger seat, said that police aren't supposed to be intimidated, Scaduto said.
Perrin Brunt, who lives with Perry in the 1000 block of North St. Louis Avenue, was charged with aggravated intimidating police.
Cook County Judge Donald Panarese Jr. ordered both men held in lieu of $250,000 bail.
Their brother, Pierre Brunt, was in court Monday for a status hearing on a 2014 drug case. A police report said Pierre Brunt was arrested with 20 bags of heroin that he intended to sell.
Pierre Brunt also has a pending case against him for failing to register this year as a sex offender in a 10-year-old case. His next hearing is April 13.
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