You'd Think He Would Have Gotten That Rear Registration Light Fixed By Now

For the third time in just over nine months, a local man was arrested after the cops stopped the car he was driving because it had a bad rear registration light, police said.

This most recent occasion Nicholas Obradovich and his rear registration light ran afoul of the Shorewood law, he was pulled over just before 1 a.m. near the corner of Route 52 and North Brookshore Drive.

Once he was stopped at the side of the road, Obradovich, 18, of 317 Parkside Drive, was arrested on a charge of possession of drug equipment.

The reason for the traffic stop, police said, was that Obradovich had "no rear registration light," police said, "which he received a written warning for."

A lot of good that warning will do, judging by what the have had to say about Obradovich in the past.

On Dec. 28, for instance, the Shorewood police said they pulled over Obradovich for driving with a burned out license plate light. He was cited for the alleged light problem and also arrested on charges of possession of cannabis and driving while license suspended.

Not only that, but a passenger in the car, 27-year-old Kenneth Ashford of 911 Barberry Way in Joliet, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug equipment.

Then, on Sept. 19, the Shorewood police reportedly picked up Obradovich again for driving without a rear registration light. That time he wasn't just ticketed for the alleged equipment violation and slapped with a couple misdemeanors, but carted off to the county jail on a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance, along with misdemeanor counts of possession of cannabis and possession of drug equipment.

Obradovich's felony drug case from September is still pending.

It was not clear why the Shorewood police merely warned Obradovich this last time they allegedly caught him without a brightly burning rear registration light.