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Alcoholism

Sunday, September 9, 2012

'Troubled' Man Arrested on Morning Drive Into Tosa for More Liquor

After call from drug store, police track down Milwaukee man living in filth and admitting to driving after consuming enormous amounts of liquor.

A Milwaukee man who drove to a Wauwatosa drug store during the morning rush hour for more liquor after downing nearly half a gallon of vodka overnight was arrested for drunken driving and sent to the hospital on an emergency medical detention order. At 8:16 a.m. Tuesday, an employee of the Walgreen’s store at 2656 Wauwatosa Avenue called Wauwatosa police to report an intoxicated driver, and he provided a license number. He said that the man seemed "troubled" in the store. He followed the man outside and told police that that he seemed to be having problems operating his vehicle's controls. Police tracked down a 54-year-old Milwaukee man living in the 2800 block of North 70th Street. He was inside his home by then and came to the door, …

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Police Reports: Desperate Man Steals Mouthwash to Get a Buzz

Young South Milwaukeean tells officers his alcoholism, for which he was in rehabilitation, got the better of him.

A young man troubled by alcoholism stole two bottles of mouthwash Friday from a Wauwatosa supermarket and quickly downed one of them to take the edge off his uncontrollable urge to drink. At 3:25 p.m., police arrested a 23-year-old South Milwaukee man for retail theft after he ran away from Metcalfe’s Sentry Foods, 6700 W. State St., with two half-liter bottles of Listerine mouthwash. A store security officer said he had seen the man taking the mouthwash and tried to stop him as he left the store, but he ran. He had crossed West State Street and the railroad tracks into Hart Park, the employee said, and then just sat down on the ground. Police officers found him there and learned that just while crossing the street and the tracks, the man …

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