Police Report: Update on Crime in Wauwatosa

Sunday

At 4 a.m., a 19-year-old Waterford man was arrested for drunken driving, first offense, after he crashed his car into a retaining wall in the 2000 block of North 74th Street. A police officer called to the scene noted that the unoccupied car appeared to have veered across the street, over the curb, side-swiped a sign post, crossed the sidewalk and finally struck the wall in front of a private residence. He then noticed a young man and a woman sitting on a porch across the street. She was a helpful neighbor who had called police, and he proved to be the driver. He was crying and immediately admitted he had been drinking, stood up and put his hands behind his back. He later told police he gotten lost and had been texting his girlfriend when he lost control of the car. He registered a .18 blood alcohol content on a breath test.

Saturday

At 10:45 p.m., a 17-year-old Milwaukee boy was arrested for disorderly conduct for urinating in public at the bus stop in the 2200 block of North 60th Street. This was the fourth such incident in about two weeks in which the same watchful resident has called police.

At 9:11 p.m., a 60-year-old Marengo man was arrested for drunken driving, first offense, when an officer monitoring an event at saw him driving on West State Street with his headlights off. The officer signaled the man to stop and he did, but he was generally unresponsive to the officer’s directions thereafter and could barely stand on his own. He failed a field sobriety test and blew a .16 BAC.

At 5:54 p.m., a security officer at in Mayfair Mall reported that a man had run out of the store with two queen-size designer bedding sets worth $450 and that when chased, he had thrown the bedding sets at his pursuer and escaped.

At 2:14 p.m., a 40-year-old Milwaukee woman was arrested for theft and obstructing an officer at , 3201 N. Mayfair Rd., after she was seen hiding merchandise in her purse and then tried to leave without paying. She gave police a false name – that of her best friend, she later admitted – even after being told that if she lied she would be charged with obstruction.

A Milwaukee woman reported that some time between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. someone had broken a window of her car and stolen a laptop computer while the car was parked in the 8700 block of Watertown Plank Road.

Friday

At 9:24 p.m., a 24-year-old Wauwatosa man was arrested for disturbing the peace after police were called to , 10900 Blue Mound Rd., for the fourth time this year on reports of loud music and littering around his apartment. The arresting officer noted that this was also the same man who was recently found to have left a loaded and cocked semi-automatic .40-cal handgun on top of the tire of a neighbor’s car in the parking garage. The man refused to answer his door when police tried to interview him and wouldn’t answer the phone when they called. But they went back later and found his door ajar – he had failed to shut it – and he was given his ticket and a stern lecture.

Police were seeking a known suspect after a Wauwatosa woman reported that a strange man had approached her in a car, followed her and made numerous lewd comments while she was walking toward to pick up her children at about 3 p.m. She got the man’s license number and hurried to a crossing guard to get away from the suspect.

At 1:21 a.m., a 48-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for disorderly conduct for sending lewd and profane harassing e-mails to a Wauwatosa woman who had fired him as a cook in her West Allis tavern. He sent several obscene and insulting e-mails, and two of them included photos of him with his genitals exposed.

Thursday

Three Milwaukee boys, one 15 and two 16 years old, were arrested for stealing a bicycle from a rack at . The three were seen taking the bike and caught a short time later, at about 11:30 a.m. The bicycle was recovered and returned to its owner, a 15-year-old Wauwatosa boy who is a student at East.