Police Report: Boy, 10, Assaulted in His Yard by Other Kids

At 4:30 p.m. Sunday, a Wauwatosa woman reported that her 10-year-old son was punched by two boys who attacked him while he was playing with a tennis ball in his front yard in the 6600 block of West Garfield Avenue.

The boy told officers he had been bouncing the ball off a wall of his home when three boys and a girl about his own age or a few years older approached him. Two of the boys asked if they could throw the ball, and when he said they could not, fearing they might throw at a window, one of the boys hit him in the neck, and he began to cry.

The girl told her companions to stop, but another of them then hit the boy in the face. All four then fled on bicycles, and the victim saw one of them ditch a bike in a yard down the street.

Police could not find the attackers, but they recovered the bicycle. However, the serial number could not be traced to any owner.

In other incidents:

Sunday

At 6:04 p.m., a Wauwatosa resident reported that at some time between 6:30 p.m. April 27 and 3:30 p.m. April 29, someone had stolen four golf clubs from his unlocked car while it was parked in his driveway in the 1800 block of North 72nd Street. He placed the value of the clubs at $1,093 and said he hadn’t reported the theft until his insurer told him he had to file a police report in order to make a claim.

At 5:13 p.m., an anonymous citizen reported he had found the west side glass door of , 9130 W. North Ave., smashed. Police found the glass broken but sill in place, and a broken cement flower pot was lying at the foot of the door. An owner of the business who was called to the store said he was surprised the alarm did not go off. The door was still locked and nothing had been taken from the store.

At 6:42 a.m., a resident of the 7300 block of Grand Parkway reported that her sister had broken two windows at her home the night before. She told police she had heard a noise but did not immediately notice the damage. She provided home security video of a woman she said was her sister throwing a rock at the windows, but the police report did not say why she thought her sister would have done this.

Saturday

At 6 p.m., a 20-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for retail theft at at Mayfair Mall after he was seen on camera taking clothing into a fitting room and coming out with fewer items than he took in. When stopped and searched, he was found to be wearing three stolen shirts under his coat, a pair of jeans under his own pants, and had a hat stuffed into his pants. The value of all the items was $341.50.

At 4:38 p.m., a 15-year-old Milwaukee boy was arrested for retail theft at , 3201 N. Mayfair Rd., after he was seen cutting open the packaging of two pellet guns and concealing them under his jacket. The boy ran from police when confronted and managed to escape from other officers outside, but was later found hiding in a dumpster at McDonald’s just to the south. The boy told police his mother worked at the McDonald’s and she was located inside. When told that her son would be taken to the Juvenile Detention Center, she replied at that she was “familiar with the process.”

At 12:30 p.m., a 26-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for retail theft at Macy’s at Mayfair Mall after he was seen leaving a fitting room without a pair of jeans he had taken in. When stopped and searched, he was found to have the jeans, worth $207, concealed under his sweatshirt.

At 7:45 a.m., a resident of the 8400 block of Stickney Avenue reported finding a backpack on her lawn, and police traced it from the contents to a boy who lives in the 2000 block of North 84th Street. The backpack had been stolen at some time since 9 p.m. Friday by someone had entered his stepfather’s unlocked car, parked in his open garage. Nothing else was missing from the car. The boy lost a music player and a watch taken from the backpack.

At 6:45 a.m., a resident of the 2100 block of North 74th Street reported that another resident had just returned her wallet and work apron, which had been found in the street at North 73rd Street and West Garfield Avenue. They had been taken from her unlocked car. Nothing was missing from the wallet, but about $20 had been taken from the apron.

At 3:49 a.m., three men, two from Wauwatosa, ages 20 and 22, and one from Milwaukee, age 19, were arrested for possession of marijuana after a traffic stop. A patrol officer recognized a car as belonging to a man he had arrested before for marijuana and learned that the registration was suspended. He stopped the car and searched them, finding all three in possession. All three also had prior arrests for marijuana.

At 12:32 a.m., a 43-year-old Waukesha man was arrested for drunken driving after he crashed into a parked car in the 10300 block of Blue Mound Road. The impact drove that car into another parked in front of it and pushed it 80 feet forward. The man failed a field sobriety test and registered a 0.14 blood alcohol level on a breath tester.

Friday

At 9:19 p.m., a 57-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for prowling in the 2300 block of North 63rd Street after he was reportedly seen pulling on the door handles of several parked cars. The man claimed he was only placing promotional cards on the cars’ windows, and several such cards were found.

At 8:07 p.m., a resident of the 2200 block of North 65th Street called police to report that she had just seen two men enter an alley and then run back out carrying a suitcase. They had gotten into a car, and she had gotten the license number. In checking the area, police found a car parked behind an apartment building with a duffel bag next to it, and located a woman inside who said she had been loading the car to move the next day. She had left the suitcase next to the car. The license plate was traced to a 19-year-old Milwaukee man who admitted he had been in Wauwatosa that evening but denied taking the suitcase.

At 5:41 p.m., a 27-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for theft, possession of marijuana, carrying a concealed weapon and violation of probation after he tried to leave the store at 6950 W. State Street without paying for a bottle of vodka. He had hidden the bottle in a handbag he was carrying and fought with the employee who detained him. Officers searched him and found he had 2.6 grams of marijuana and a steak knife with a 5-inch blade. He was on probation for earlier weapons and drug charges.

At 11:39 a.m., a New Berlin man reported that at some time between 9:30 and 11 a.m. someone had smashed a window of his car and stolen a laptop computer while it was parked outside the Center for Diagnostic Imaging, 2445 N. Mayfair Rd.