Friday, May 17, 2013
If set-up accident scene doesn't resonate with all students, followup film and testimonials do, as pre-Prom documentary of alcohol-related deaths hits home.
An eleborate mock crash scene set up Thursday morning at Wauwatosa East High School was only the beginning of an intensive two-day course of events designed to drive home the danger of mixing alcohol and automobiles. For some students, Thursday's mockup didn't quite live up to its billing in shock value: It was a little too staged, they thought. They were kept at a distance while firefighters and police officers swarmed around two smashed-up cars that supposedly contained friends of theirs – but they were barely visible. And then, too, the scene was crawling with camera operators intruding on every scene, poking lenses between paramedics and victims, police and perpetrators. It was a little shocking just knowing that was your friend out …
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Blaring music and failure to pay tickets and maintain proper registration make a quick trip to the convenience store a beacon for police attention.
A man with two drunken driving convictions on his record probably could have gotten away with a quick errand in the neighborhood had he not gone out of his way to draw so much attention to himself. At 2:50 a.m. – an hour when few are on the road but many who are have been drinking – on May 8, a patrol officer at Wauwatosa Avenue and West Center Street heard extremely loud music pounding from a car at the BP gas station on the corner. The officer pulled in and saw that nobody was in the car. He ran the plates and found they were suspended for unpaid parking tickets and expired since January, yet there was an improper 2014 registration sticker on the back plate. The officer pulled out and parked north of the gas station to watch, and soon a …
Thursday, May 16, 2013
With owner's permission to drive (but no license), juvenile steps on it to try to elude police, ending up wrecking his friend's mother's car and landing in Detention Center.
A Milwaukee boy fled from a Wauwatosa police officer, led him and a cavalcade of other officers on a 2.6-mile high-speed chase, and then, just as police were giving up the pursuit, crashed into a fence and ran. He must have had been deep in some pretty serious business to do that, right? Nope. He just wasn't old enough to drive and was afraid of the consequences. At 1:59 p.m. Saturday, a Tosa patrol officer monitoring traffic in the 1800 block of North 60th Street saw a car approaching from the north and accelerating rapidly beyond the speed limit. He clocked it at 45 mph in the 25-mph zone as it passed him, and he pulled out to make the stop, with lights flashing. The officer said the driver slowed to about 30 mph and it appeared he was …
Woman finds electronics and other property stolen in break-in, then her live-in ex-husband discovers that his handgun is gone from under his mattress.
A .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol with a loaded magazine and 50 extra rounds was among property taken in a home burglary, the second time in a week and third in 2½ months in which a weapon or weapons was taken in a Wauwatosa home break-in. This time, though, just the one gun was stolen – five and then 10, respectively, were lost in the prior crimes – and this pistol was relatively well hidden, compared to the earlier incidents when large numbers of firearms were left out in the open. At 11:03 a.m., a resident of the 2600 block of North 65th Street called police after discovering the home she shares with her ex-husband had been broken into. She said she had gone to a doctor's appointment at 9 a.m. and returned at 11, unlocked her front …
Guaranty Bank at 127th Street and Capitol Drive, Brookfield, was robbed Thursday afternoon. Three men went in, at least one armed, and two more were waiting in a backup getaway car.
Police from Brookfield, Wauwatosa and Butler were searching for as many as five men involved in robbing a Guaranty Bank branch near those borders Thursday afternoon. Three armed men entered the bank at 12655 W. Capitol Dr. in Brookfield just after 1 p.m. Brookfield police were summoned at 1:04 p.m., and the first officer arrived within 30 seconds. But the robbers had already escaped and remained at large late Thursday, Brookfield police said. According to witnesses, three men entered the bank with their faces covered, and at least one semi-automatic handgun was displayed. Bank employees were ordered to the floor, and two suspects jumped the counters and took an undisclosed amount of money. The planned getaway car, a silver Chevy Lumina, …
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Probationer has a bundle of strange booty in his bindle that doesn't belong to him, but despite elegant police investigative work, he draws only a municipal citation.
What started as nothing more than an unattended bag left on a couch in Mayfair Mall turned into quite an investigative coup for the Wauwatosa police, leading them to believe they had a basis for four serious criminal charges. In the end, an assistant district attorney quashed that plan, and a habitual thief walked with a municipal citation. At 4:22 p.m. May 3, police were called to the upper level of Mayfair near Spencer's Gifts when a black duffel bag was found unattended on a sofa. Officers opened the bag and quickly found a driver's license receipt with a name. The Mayfair security chief was on hand, and he paged that name to return for his bag. But in the meantime, Tosa police officers were digging further in the duffel, and the next …
Don't go barging into your own home if you know someone else has. Husband and wife stop short when they see things amiss, and police are able to gather some evidence.
They made one innocent mistake in home security, but a Wauwatosa couple did all the right things to assist police when they found their house had been broken into. At 11:50 a.m. May 6, after leaving home around 9, the wife and husband came home from work for lunch and found a small window, one of three, had been knocked out of their front door. They also noted that although the door was closed, the deadbolt had been unlocked. They stopped right there, did not touch a thing, and called police to their home in the 700 block of North 119th Street. Officers found the whole decorative window from the door had been knocked out, frame and all, and was lying intact inside the door. They surmised a burglar had then reached in and was able to turn …
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Daytime burglary in this block
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Once again, firearms collections left unsecured are stolen in a Wauwatosa burglary. This time, there is a witness who almost reaches police in time to stop the perpetrators.
A frightened woman hid behind a bush earlier this month as she watched two men carry more than $5,000 worth of rifles and shotguns out of her neighbor's home in broad daylight, the second such burglary in Wauwatosa this year. The woman then crept inside to call police, but even as she described the situation to dispatchers, the burglars drove off and escaped. At least 10 long weapons — rifles, shotguns and a pellet gun — are unaccounted for following this latest theft. According to reports, police were called at 9:45 a.m. May 3 to the 4400 block of North 108th Street on the report of two men carrying guns out of a house and fleeing west on Congress in a boxy gray or silver vehicle. Officers arrived to find the service door to the attached …
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4400 N 108th St, Wauwatosa, WI
Rifles and shotguns stolen in burglary in this block
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People from around the country take part in a candle-light vigil at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. Wauwatosa police officer Jennifer Sebena was among those honored Monday.
More than 19,000 names of fallen law enforcement officers are etched into the walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial — and more are added every year. The keepers of the police memorial figure one law officer in the United States dies in the line of duty every 57 hours. For this year's ceremony, 321 names were added to that wall. Among them: Jennifer Sebena, a Wauwatosa police officer shot and killed on Christmas Eve 2012; and Milwaukee County Sheriff's Deputy Sergio Aleman, killed in an on-duty car accident last year. "She was a truly amazing person," Wauwatosa Det. John Milotsky said of Sebena, speaking to WISN 12 News. "She pinned on that badge every day and served her community. Just like the other 19,000 officers that …
Monday, May 13, 2013
A large contingent of police officers from the Milwaukee area and throughout the state are in Washington, D.C. to honor their fallen brothers and sisters, including Wauwatosa's Jennifer Sebena and Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Deputy Sergio Aleman.
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Monday, May 13
Wisconsin had a strong presence leading up to a candlelight ceremony Monday night at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. Dozens of police officers from departments throughout the state made the trek to the nation's capitol to honor those who died in the line of duty, including Wauwatosa officer Jennifer Sebena and Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Deputy Sergio Aleman. Their names are among 321 names added this year to the memorial wall. Just before the Monday night vigil, Jason Newton, a reporter for Patch's media partners WISN 12 News, spoke with some of the Wisconsin officers who were on hand. “We knew all along that Jen earned her place on this wall,” Wauwatosa detective John Milotsky told Newton. “It’s all …
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2:40 pm on Saturday, May 18, 2013
I remember similar events more than 20 years ago. Although I took them seriously, I had made up my mind to live responsibly beforehand so it didn't change me. Many of the other members of my class who didn't care about responsibility did not take it seriously and went on to talk about how much fun they had with their underage drinking and driving escapades. So these events had no noticeable … more ›