Police Report: Second Tosa East Student Reportedly Attacked

A reported assault of a student last week mirrored another attack, down to the exact location.

At 3:40 p.m. Wednesday, police took a report from an East sophomore that the previous Friday he had been attacked from behind by two unknown boys in the 1500 block of Alice Street after leaving school and walking toward track practice at Hart Park.

He told officers that he had been hit once in the back of the head, then got up and ran and was chased almost to State Street. When asked why he had waited to report the incident to school authorities until five days after it happened, he said he hadn't thought to involve police but was doing so at his mother’s urging.

He told police he had not been aware of an almost identical incident reported by an East freshman on April 29 in exactly the same location – a set of stairs at the end of Alice Street.

In that report, an East freshman said he had been hit from behind with a skateboard on the same stairs, also after staying a short time after school to talk to a teacher. In that case, the boy said he had fought back and driven the older boys off.

In other incident reports released this week:

Friday

At 3:42 a.m., a 20-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for possession of marijuana after he was searched following a suspicious person report from a resident in the 1300 block of Martha Washington Drive. The man said he was returning to his home on Hawley Road after a visit to his girlfriend. Police confirmed that the woman he named lived at the address he gave on North 69th Street at Milwaukee Avenue. The man told officers he was doing nothing illegal but when he consented to a search he was found to have two small bags of marijuana.

At 12:44 a.m., two Waukesha men, one 29 and one 36, were arrested for theft when they were caught stealing scrap wire from a We Energies work site at 11500 W. Burleigh St. Police had been alerted by an employee of the utility who had been monitoring the site on video surveillance. The men had several coils of copper wire in the back seat of their car. Interviewed separately, each man claimed the other had instigated the theft and had never been to the We Energies site before. We Energies had made two reports on Tuesday night that prowlers were seen on camera near the scrap bins.

Thursday

At 10:32 p.m., a 38-year-old Franklin man was arrested for disorderly conduct and possession of cocaine at , 2201 N. Mayfair Rd., after he was asked to leave the premises and got into an argument. Managers had been watching the man because he appeared to be overly intoxicated and was disturbing employees. During a search at the police station, the man was found to have 1.02 grams of cocaine in his pocket, although he denied it was his and said he didn’t know how it got there.

At 7 p.m., a Milwaukee man reported that at some time since 8 a.m. his $600 bicycle had been stolen from a ramp leading to the parking structure at 1414 Underwood Ave., where he had locked the bike to a metal handrail. He had not recorded the serial number.

At 3:03 p.m., a 34-year-old Greenfield man was arrested on a paternity warrant from Milwaukee County when he came to the Wauwatosa Police Department to pick up a solicitor’s permit and a standard background check revealed the warrant for a family offense. The man said told officers he had no idea what the warrant was for. He was held until turned over the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department.

Tuesday

At 9:47 p.m., a 31-year-old Milwaukee woman was arrested for drunken driving, first offense, in the 9400 block of West Capitol Drive after another driver following her called police about her erratic driving. The woman claimed she was only very tired, but she failed a field sobriety test and a preliminary breath test.

At 9:35 p.m., a resident of the 100 block of North 121st Street reported his car had been stolen. He said he had lent it in January to a female friend from Pewaukee and that she had in turn let a 37-year-old Milwaukee man borrow it to run and errand at 3 p.m. He had not returned with the car.

At 6:30 p.m., a patrol officer noticed fresh graffiti on a vacant building at 10830 W. Burleigh St. and then saw that the building had been entered and heavily vandalized with spray-painted messages and lewd pictures. The graffiti included several references to “The Cereal Taggers.”

At 5:49 p.m., a 21-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for resisting an officer after he was defiant and refused to talk to a patrol officer who had seen him walking in the 8200 block of Watertown Plank Road and thought he resembled the description of a suspect wanted by both Wauwatosa and Milwaukee police for robbery and sexual assault. The man told the officer he was on his way to work but wouldn’t say where and wouldn’t stop walking to talk to the officer. When the officer grabbed his arm, he made threatening gestures and the officer fired his electrical stun gun, incapacitating him. It turned out the man had no criminal record and was in fact on his way to work.

At 5:15 p.m., an Oak Creek woman reported that her cell phone had been stolen from her purse and that she suspected her server at a restaurant at Mayfair Mall. She told police that the server “kept staring” at her iPhone 4 while she was using it at her table.

A Wauwatosa man reported that at some time since April 23 someone had removed the driver’s side mirror and mechanism from his car and a decorative floral wreath from the front door of his home in the 4400 block of North 110th Street.

Monday

At 11:35 p.m., a 24-year-old Milwaukee woman was arrested on an outstanding warrant from Menomonee Falls for a speeding violation after she was stopped in the 1700 block of North Mayfair Road for having a suspended registration.

At 11 p.m., an Oak Creek woman reported that at some time since 2:55 p.m. someone had vandalized her car by writing on it with a black marker while it was parked at Dave and Buster’s, 2201 N. Mayfair Rd., where she works. She told officers she had gone out to her car to replace the license plates, which had been stolen a few days before, when she noticed the graffiti.

At 9:23 p.m., an employee at , 6750 W. State St., reported that two customers had left two counterfeit $20 bills on their table as payment. She said she had instantly noticed the bills were fake but could not locate the customers, a man and a woman. The police officer noted in his report several discrepancies in the bills, including identical serial numbers and missing watermarks.

At 8:15 p.m., a 15-year-old Milwaukee boy was arrested for retail theft at at Mayfair Mall when he was seen putting on a gray hoodie sweatshirt under his own hoodie. The boy denied taking the item but he was clearly seen on surveillance footage. The hoodie was priced at $98 and was damaged when the boy ripped the security sensor off it.

At 10:18 a.m., a 45-year-old Milwaukee woman was arrested for contributing to truancy after her 9-year-old son was reported to be habitually truant from third grade at , 11132 W. Potter Rd. The mother had been repeatedly contacted and counseled by the school and warned that she might be cited. She had been cited for contributing to truancy before when the boy was in first grade.