Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Likely on the lookout for a used car just coming out of a thorough cleanup, pair in stolen Audi make off with an economy model, then abandon their luxury ride.
A pair of car thieves traded down from the new luxury import sedan they were driving for a used Ford Focus – stealing it off a dealer's lot in broad daylight and right in front its owners. At 4:15 p.m. April 29, a manager at Uptown Motors, 2111 N. Mayfair Rd., reported the theft and his own pursuit of the thieves, in company with one of his salesman. The manager told police the 2008 Focus had just been cleaned, so it was sitting out on the lot with its doors open and the keys in the ignition. He was inside the dealership at about 4 p.m. when he and his salesman saw a silver Audi pull up next to the Focus. Both described a woman with a ponytail at the wheel of the Audi – which would also prove to have been stolen – and said a man jumped out…
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Uptown Ford Lincoln
2111 N Mayfair Rd, Milwaukee, WI
Car stolen off lot before employees' eyes
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Mall security and Wauwatosa police round up four suspects over three days who were seen in the act of committing thefts or trespassing.
You never know about the ones who get away without anyone's knowledge, but in all of four incidents at Mayfair Mall covered by recent police reports, suspects who were seen by security were also caught and arrested. According to police reports: At 3:27 p.m. Sunday, a 33-year-old Milwaukee woman was arrested for theft from Solstice Sunglass Boutique at Mayfair after she was seen on video hiding a $295 pair of sunglasses in her infant’s stroller. She also had a toddler with her, who was seen to grab a pair of sunglasses and run out of the store. His mother chased him down and returned the glasses, but she did not return or pay for the ones she had hidden. She was located in the food court and taken, with her children, to the mall booking …
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
A keen eye for the out-of-place puts investigator on the tail of couple entering Mayfair Mall, and sure enough, she recovers a stolen vehicle.
An astute Wauwatosa detective who happened to be driving by Mayfair Mall noticed something odd about a van she saw, decided to investigate, then made it look easy when she arrested two suspected auto thieves. Daven Davonte Allen, 20, and Jamie E. Stiger, 18, both of Milwaukee, were charged last Wednesday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with driving a vehicle without the owner's consent, a felony punishable by up to three years and six months in prison. According to the police report: Two days earlier, at 1:52 p.m. Jan. 7, the detective was passing by Mayfair when something about the van, just turning in to the mall, caught her eye. She said it was quite cold out, but the driver’s window was either all the way down or missing, and it didn…
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Mayfair Mall
2500 N Mayfair Rd, Wauwatosa, WI
Man and woman arrested, charged with auto theft
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
Large number of staff and customers were finishing business when two gun-wielding robbers burst in and demanded cash from three tellers, reports say.
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
It was two minutes before the 7 p.m. Friday closing time at Landmark Credit Union on Nov. 16. Inside, staff was shutting down the drive-through, but five teller stations were still open, taking care of last-minute customers. There were even customers still sitting down with three loan officers. Outside, a Greenfield man was waiting in his car with his fiancée for her daughter, one of the tellers, to get off work. They were parked three or four spots away from the main entrance. He noticed two men who had gotten out of a car that had just backed into the parking place immediately in front of the doors. The men were masked and both were openly carrying pistols. "They are going to rob the place!" he blurted to his fiancée. Her first instinct …
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3600 N 124th St, Wauwatosa, WI
Landmark Credit Union
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
One of two men arrested Wednesday as suspected drunken drivers tells police he had been hoisting a few over the president's re-election before he elected to drive.
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Two Milwaukee men were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of driving while drunk on the streets of Wauwatosa, one of whom said he had been toasting President Obama's re-election at a party with friends. At 12:58 a.m. Wednesday – about three hours after media began declaring an Obama victory – a 26-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested after he failed to stop for a flashing red light on Wauwatosa Avenue at Harmonee Avenue in the Village. A patrol officer who saw the infraction pulled up behind the driver as he stopped at the drive-up ATM at Chase Bank, 7430 W. State St. A passenger in the car was holding a 16-ounce beer can when the officer walked up to the car, and the driver launched into a speech about President Obama having won re-election…
Sunday, November 4, 2012
One disappears while very briefly in the care of acquaintances, the other vanishes after owner leaves keys for anyone to see.
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Sunday, November 4, 2012
Two men who own minivans learned recently – in very different ways – why it is risky to leave your keys in your unattended vehicle. In one case, that meant leaving the van running while attending to an errand, while "friends" waited. According to police reports: An Edgerton man reported Wednesday that at about 5:30 a.m., his minivan was stolen from the parking lot of the Walgreen’s store at 2275 N. Mayfair Rd. when he went inside and left the vehicle running while two friends, a man and a woman, remained with it. When he walked out of the store after a few minutes, he saw his van vanishing down the street. Milwaukee police reported soon after that they had spotted the missing van and stopped it, and a man leaped out of it and ran. He was …
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
A Chrysler sedan disappears, another reappears two blocks away, likely because they're easy to grab. Also, car-entry thieves hit one block of 72nd Street on successive nights.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Two cars, two blocks, the same make and model.... A resident of an apartment in the 7700 block of North Avenue reported Saturday morning that his 2000 Chrysler Cirrus sedan had been stolen from the rear parking lot of his building. At 9:04 a.m. Sunday, police recovered a stolen Cirrus sedan in the rear parking lot of an apartment building just two blocks west of there, in the 7900 block of West North Avenue – but it was not the same car. A woman who lives in the second building called the car in as suspicious because it was parked in another resident’s assigned spot and because she had heard that a car of the same make and model had been stolen nearby the night before. It was not known just how long the recovered Cirrus had been parked …
Friday, October 12, 2012
Cop hits lights, driver hits gas, cop gives chase, car crashes, two men flee, second cop spots them, they split up, one fords river, cops and dogs swarm park, man recrosses river and both escape — but probably not for long.
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- Jim Price
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Two men led Wauwatosa and Milwaukee police on a wild chase that started just before midnight Wednesday with a traffic violation, swept through the hills and curves of the Washington Highlands and ended with officers out most of the night combing a wide swath of eastern Wauwatosa for them, without success. However, one of them left a calling card — a Wisconsin state ID. According to police reports, the episode began with an officer parked in the soon-to-be BelAir Cantina lot, monitoring the corner of North 68th Street and West North Avenue for traffic light violations. At 11:49 p.m. Wednesday, a car going east on North Avenue stopped at the light, then proceeded into the intersection when it turned green. But suddenly a blue Plymouth Neon …
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Late night date turns from romantic disappointment into downright damage when demoiselle makes off with brother-in-law's pickup truck.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Oh, to have loved and lost and – well, really, never actually got the lovin' part, either. A Milwaukee man who was house-sitting for his sister and her husband at their residence in the 2400 block of North 116th Street reported Friday that a “gal” he had met at a party had stolen his brother-in-law’s pickup truck. The man, in his 60s, said he had gotten off his second-shift job and gone to a house party, where he met “Tracy,” a woman about half his age. She came home with him for some “adult activities” – which, he said ruefully, never took place. After a couple of hours of just hanging out, she said she was going to take a shower. When quite a while had passed and she didn’t come out of the bathroom, he checked and found her gone – …
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Stranger, 16, repeatedly waited for girls to leave East High, followed them as they walked home and approached them with unwanted advances.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
A 16-year-old Milwaukee boy was banned from all Wauwatosa School District property after two East High girls complained that he had been stalking them, waiting for them after school and approaching as they walked home. Both said that he wanted to find out where they lived, and that he made suggestive comments. One girl said the boy had tagged after her through the Village and then tried to stike up a conversation, telling her he thought she was pretty. He asked where she lived, and she lied and said her home was still a long way away, then pretended to take his phone number just to placate him. She told her parents about it when she got home, and they contacted police and school officials. Meanwhile, another girl had also became a target …
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Wauwatosa East High School
7500 Milwaukee Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Girls complain of stalker; boy, 16, banned from school properties
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SurlyMan
8:32 am on Thursday, January 17, 2013
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