Crime & Safety
Tosa Styling Salon Suffers Break-in, with TV Stolen
In what amounted to a smash and grab, a burglar hurled a rock through the glass front door of a business and managed to make off with a big TV before police arrived.
Wauwatosa police have no leads at this time to who smashed the glass front door of a hair salon, set off both silent and audible alarms, and made off with a 47-inch TV before officers could arrive.
At 12:24 a.m. July 22, a patrol officer was sent to Cola Styles and Co., 2671 N. 71st St., on a commercial burglary alarm call. When he got there, he found the front door shattered, with a good-size rock lying just inside on the floor.
A full-length mirror was leaning against the building, off to the side, and police later learned it had been hung on the front door and had been removed, rather carefully, before the door was smashed in.
An officer said the hole in the glass door was just large enough for an average-size person to get through – and that they perpetrator managed to get in and out of it very quickly with a rather large TV set.
The TV had been in the front room of the salon, and nothing else in that room or any other had been disturbed. Given that an audible alarm sounded, police believe the burglar took the first visible thing of value and left.
A couple of neighbors said they'd heard the alarm but hadn't seen anything, and one said he'd seen a suspicious car parked in front of the salon two days before, sitting at the curb for half an hour without anyone getting in or out. But she didn't get the license number or a description of any occupants.
Police collected possible fingerprint and DNA evidence from anything the burglar would have or might have touched, but they have no suspects at this time.
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