Parents, Do You Know Where Your Kids Aren't?

Police issued five citations on March 25 for habitual truancy to students and one parent at Wauwatosa West High School. Those at West cited for missed and unexcused absence for all or parts of school days since the current semester began Jan. 25:

• The 36-year-old mother of a 16-year-old Wauwatosa boy was cited for contributing to the truancy of her son, who had also missed 30 days, and this was her fourth such citation;
• A 16-year-old Milwaukee boy had missed 30 days of school since the beginning of this semester;
• A 17-year-old Wauwatosa boy missed 30 days and received his third citation;
• A 17-year-old Wauwatosa boy missed 15 days and received a third citation; and
• A 14-year-old Wauwatosa girl, cited for missing 10 days this semester.

In other Wauwatosa police incident reports:

Last Friday

A resident of the 2300 block of North 65th Street reported that some time overnight someone had smashed the driver’s window of her car while it was parked in her driveway. A large chunk of Lannon stone was found on the passenger seat; nothing appeared to be missing from the car and there was no firm evidence that it was entered. Wauwatosa police believed this and the following two incidents the same night were related:

• Another resident of the same 2500 block of North 65th Street reported that overnight someone entered his unlocked car in his driveway and stole a GPS unit.
• A resident of the nearby 2400 block of North 67th Street reported that overnight someone entered his unlocked car in his driveway and stole an expandable police baton and a bottle of cologne, together worth about $120.

March 28

At 6:57 p.m., a 40-year-old Wauwatosa man was arrested at Bryant & Stratton College, 10950 W. Potter Rd., on a felony assault warrant from Kenosha County and was turned over to the Kenosha police.

At 3:38 p.m., a manager at the Pick ‘n Save at 1717 N. Mayfair Rd. reported the attempted theft of 16 canisters of baby formula, worth $271.84, by a man who abandoned the goods in the parking lot when confronted by a store employee. He and a waiting woman drove off in a dark blue Oldsmobile sedan. Store video reviewed later showed the woman had been inside with the male subject and helped him load the formula into a child’s shopping cart before she went outside to pull the car up.

At 3:25 p.m., a 17-year-old Wauwatosa boy was arrested for theft from Kmart after he was watched stuffing two pairs of headphones, a T-shirt and an NBA headband down his shorts. The retail value of the goods was $43.97.

At 1:10 p.m., a 57-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for panhandling in the parking lot of Target, 3900 N. 124th St., after a store manager reported he was “aggressively” begging customers for money. A police officer immediately recognized the man from an identical encounter there two weeks earlier, when the suspect had been warned not to panhandle in Wauwatosa. This time he was cited and told he was now banned from Target property and would be arrested for trespassing if he did it again.

At 9:40 a.m., a 15-year-old Milwaukee boy was arrested for possession of marijuana at Wauwatosa West High School, where he is a student. An assistant principal at West told police he had information from a reliable source that the boy was holding, and when called into the office with a police officer present, he was searched and found to have four small packets of pot hidden in the battery compartment of a digital camera.

March 27

At 7:48 p.m., a 29-year-old Milwaukee woman was arrested for possession of stolen property at Mayfair Mall after she set off a security sensor while leaving the 5-7-9 shop. She was found to have stolen merchandise from there, Macy’s and Torrid, all together worth $172 retail.

At 4:41 p.m., a 23-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for soliciting without a license in the 1800 block of Martha Washington Drive after a mail carrier told a police officer she’d seen the man looking in windows in the neighborhood. The man was found, and he claimed to be selling magazine subscriptions. But he had no permit and was also soliciting cash donations for “some needy kids,” he said. He had $72 in cash he said people had given him of their free will. It was confiscated.

March 25

At 9:24 a.m., a manager at the Pick ‘n Save at 6950 W. State St. reported that a man had just stolen three bottles of liquor and refused to stop for him. He said the man was just leaving in a black Nissan. An officer in the vicinity spotted the car and tried to pull it over, but the driver fled east on State Street, passing other cars on the right and left, and after a short chase the pursuit was abandoned for public safety reasons. The owner of the car was located and proved to be a female passenger who identified the suspect. Police were still looking for the man, a 29-year-old West Allis resident.

At 9:03 a.m., a patrol officer came upon a disabled Jeep Cherokee in the 3000 block of North Mayfair Road, and as he pulled up behind it saw two men jogging away across the street just before disappearing behind Alioto’s Restaurant, 3041 N. Mayfair. The Jeep’s steering column was peeled and it proved to have been stolen in Green Bay. Inside were 10 sets of car keys and two screwdrivers that didn’t belong to the owner. The two subjects could not be found.