A Busy Day for Burglars

New reports released by the Wauwatosa police show that a second hair salon business was burglarized early Wednesday, in addition to , and both apartments in a duplex were also hit later that day.

The owner of , 2312 North Lefeber Ave., reported that someone had broken into the business between 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Wednesday.

The owner arrived to open up only to find a client inside waiting for her. The client had just walked in the door, which turned out to have been jimmied open with a pry bar sometime overnight. Drawers and cabinets had been rifled, but nothing was taken.

Apartments ransacked

At 10:03 p.m. Wednesday, a resident of the 2600 block of North 63rd Street reported that her apartment and the one below had both been burglarized.

She had just arrived home with her boyfriend after being out for a couple of hours and noticed a plastic pail had been put over a motion sensor light on the garage.

Then she saw that her downstairs neighbor’s window air conditioner was on the ground and a rear window was open. The side door was standing open, as was her neighbor’s apartment door.

Going upstairs, she found her door pried open and the apartment ransacked. She lost a TV set, a laptop computer, $200 cash, and jewelry, the loss totaling $1,470. For some reason, the perpetrators had also removed her window air conditioner from the kitchen window but then left it in the dining room.

The downstairs resident was identified but could not be located, and it was not known at the time of the report what might have been stolen from him.