Crime & Safety

Police Report: Early-Morning Carousing Ends in Arrests for Theft

Satellite technology leads police straight to rightful owner of stolen property.

It was dawn Saturday, as most folks are just waking up, when police were called to check on a boisterous pair of youths who had not yet gone to bed.

The call would result in considerably more hot water for two 19-year-old Milwaukee men than merely creating a disturbance.

At 6:10 a.m. Saturday, police were dispatched to the area of Swan Boulevard and West North Avenue on a report of two disorderly subjects. As police approached, the caller said that the two separated quickly, but they were just as quickly rounded up by patrol officers.

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Both young men were intoxicated, and so both were arrested for underage drinking. But that wasn't the worst of their troubles, or their troublemaking.

When the two men were searched, one was found to have a GPS unit and the other a charging cord for it. Back at the station, officers easily activated the GPS and found it’s “home” was in the 2100 block of North 70th Street – far from the home of either teenager.

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They contacted the resident at that address and, upon checking his car, he told them he was indeed missing his GPS and cord, as well as some loose change, and that his car had been generally ransacked. He also found a small black flashlight on the ground next to the car.

So, the two sleepless Milwaukee teens were arrested for theft as well.

The car they entered had not been locked. Unlocked cars were also entered and rifled the same night in the 11000 block of West Ruby Avenue, costing the owner four music CDs worth $10 and $2 in change, and in the 100 block of North 85th Street, where the only thing missing was the owner’s manual, worth $10.

In other reports:

Friday

Five Milwaukee teenagers – a 19-year-old man, two 16-year-old boys, one 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl – were all arrested for battery after they attacked, beat and kicked an 18-year-old Milwaukee man on the playground at McKinley Elementary School. The two men had once been friends but had fallen out several years ago. The 19-year-old had verbally accosted the 18-year-old on the playground, then left and come back with his juvenile companions. The victim was not seriously injured in the assault.

At 2:55 p.m., a suspect was seen entering a minivan parked in a driveway in the 4300 block of North 95th Street. The owner found nothing missing and no apparent damage, but she called police back later after she tried to start the van and found that the ignition had been damaged in an apparent attempt to hotwire it.

A resident of the 7200 block of West Center Street reported that sometime overnight his car had been stolen from behind his apartment building.


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