Man eager ‘to go have sex’ charged with driving at 111 mph

21-year-old Zachary P. Ramirez was pulled over recently by Naperville police, after a patrol officer clocked him driving 111 mph through a section of the Springbrook Prairie Forest Preserve, where the speed limit is posted at 45 mph. As traffic police are wont to do, police asked Ramirez where he was going in such a hurry. Ramirez reputedly replied he was “trying to go have sex with a girl he liked.”

Police Sgt. Gregg Bell said Ramirez’s troubles began at about 2:06 a.m. Saturday, when an officer was on patrol and on the lookout for speeders along a stretch of Plainfield-Naperville Road. The officer noted a black, 1994 Honda Prelude driving north from 87th Street, Bell said via e-mail. The officer’s radar unit initially clocked the car travelling at 104 mph “and finally locked at 111 (mph),” he said.



Bell said the motorist, later identified as Ramirez, continued driving north after running a red light. Ramirez also allegedly ran a stop sign before a second officer kerbed his car. Ramirez, “when asked why he was travelling so fast, replied he was trying to go have sex with a girl he liked,” Bell said.

To add to his woes, police allegedly found 0.2 grams of marijuana during a search of his car. Ramirez lives on the 1400 block of Fairway Drive, in the Country Lakes area of Naperville’s far northwest side. He faces trial on charges of speeding 40 mph or more over the statutory limit, possession of 2.5 grams or less of marijuana, reckless driving, disobeying a traffic control signal and disobeying a stop sign. Ramirez is free on $200 bond. His arraignment date is pending.