Thursday, May 16, 2013
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, February 6, 2013
Wee municipality of Butler calls on larger neighbors after brazen bank crime, and bigger brothers send in legions to corral suspected criminals.
Two men suspected of robbing a bank in Butler were rounded up by police, thanks to the mutual aid of the Brookfield and Wauwatosa police departments. The pair, one 33 and one 34, both from Milwaukee, were arrested on suspicion of bank robbery but have not yet been charged. According to Brookfield police reports and an interview with a ranking officer: At 11:51 a.m. Jan. 26, Brookfield and Wauwatosa police were called in to assist Butler police with the search for a man who had just robbed the US Bank branch at 13195 W. Hampton Ave. The suspect entered the bank wearing all black clothing with a hood up, approached a teller and produced a black “Glock-type” handgun, according to witnesses. He walked up to a teller and said, “I’m not (…
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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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
In one case in Wauwatosa, the two subjects robbed three telllers at gunpoint and made off in a stolen car, found burned a short time later. In Racine, the same bank was hit twice, two weeks apart.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Local law enforcement and the FBI are seeking suspects in at least eight credit union and bank robberies in the past month throughout Southeast Wisconsin, according to our partners at Fox 6 News. The FBI Milwaukee Division is seeking the public’s help in identifying these serial robbery suspects at seven credit unions and one bank, all thought to be related and committed by the same subjects. The robberies occurred at the following financial institutions, Fox News said: Anyone with information on these cases is urged to call local law enforcement or the FBI Milwaukee Division at 414-276-4684. In the Wauwatosa robbery, two men entered the Landmark Credit Union on Thursday, wearing masks and each with a gun. One of them robbed three tellers …
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Suspicious character seemed to be casing bank counter inside supermarket, and just the sight of a squad car sent him packing.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
A Wauwatosa police officer might have inadvertently halted a bank robbery last Friday just by driving through a parking lot at the right time. Tri City Bank tellers inside the Pick ‘n Save store at 1717 N. Mayfair Rd. had been watching a suspicious character for 25 minutes, certain that he must have been casing the bank for a robbery. The man, dressed in all black clothing and wearing a black baseball cap and sunglasses, had been idling all that time in the supermarket’s produce section, which is in front of the bank counter. Tellers said he kept looking their way while not appearing to be doing any real shopping. He did finally pick up a couple of items and put them in a hand basket, but suddenly put the basket down and hurried out of …
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Tri City National Bank
1717 N Mayfair Rd, Wauwatosa, WI
Tellers report suspicious characters casing the branch bank
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Addy, the Wauwatosa police dog, demonstrates his takedown skills with the help of a volunteer — and a lot of padding.
Some people might call Wauwatosa Police Officer Chad Geizler a glutton for punishment. Geizler regularly volunteers for a duty very few would want, even in the challenging world of law enforcement – playing the fleeing suspect for fellow officer Tim Kastner when Kastner calls for a training session with Wauwatosa police K9 Addy. Addy is as well-behaved a dog as you're ever likely to meet, and well-tempered to boot. But when Kastner tells Addy to go after someone, you'd better believe that not even Usain Bolt is going to get far. Addy is trained to pursue, bite and hold on command, among other things. And Geizler has been on the receiving end of that command enough times to know he's not going to win this footrace. "The first time we did …
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Once again, a suspect is in custody in a matter of minutes after holdup as motorcycle officer spots man running and gives chase.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Wauwatosa police answered an alarm from a Tri City National Bank branch Tuesday morning and, once again, apprehended a suspect in short order. The robbery took place at 9:59 a.m. at the Tri City branch inside the Pick 'n Save supermarket at 1717 N. Mayfair Rd., Wauwatosa police Lt. Gerald Witkowski said, and involved a weapon or the threat of a weapon. A motorcycle patrol officer, alerted to the alarm call and arriving at the scene, spotted a man running from the Pick 'n Save east across Mayfair Road, Witkowski said. The officer gave chase on his bike and then on foot and caught the suspect in a residential back yard in the 2000 block of North 107th Street. The suspect was in custody by between 10:04 and 10:05, Witkowski said, and all the …
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Tri City National Bank
1717 N Mayfair Rd, Wauwatosa, WI
Robber captured within minutes after holdup
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Friday, July 27, 2012
String of bank heists may be solved, as Michael Levitson, the defendant in Wauwatosa's cross-dressing robbery case, is identified in a slew of cases in May and June.
Good work by Wauwatosa police in catching a dress-wearing bank robber may prove to have been the key to solving a rash of bank robberies in Milwaukee. Court records show that Michael R. Levitson, 57, of Hilbert, Wis., faces four more counts of robbery of a financial institution, all filed together Monday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. Charges were filed in the Wauwatosa case July 17. Tosa police arrested Levitson at 11:14 a.m. July 13, one minute after he left the Tri City Bank branch at 10859 W. Blue Mound Rd. with a bag containing two drawers' worth of cash. He was wearing sunglasses, a long black wig and a full-length sleeveless dress at the time. According to a report in Friday's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee detectives …
Saturday, July 21, 2012
He is alleged to have pulled one fast bank job; a Wauwatosa police officer pulled an even faster one.
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Saturday, July 21, 2012
A teller at a Tri City National Bank branch in Wauwatosa told police that she was focused on some work Friday morning when she heard her colleague two windows away gasp. She looked at her co-worker and saw she was staring toward the door. She turned and gave a gasp of her own. Both would say that they knew in an instant they were going to be robbed. Walking toward them was a man wearing a dress, a long, unruly wig and sunglasses, his disguise not fooling either of them for a second. They were robbed, both of them, and just a minute and 42 seconds after entering, the man left with two drawers worth of cash. One minute after that, he was under arrest. Michael Ricardo Leviston, 57, of Hilbert, WI, was charged Tuesday with robbery of a …
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Tri City National Bank
10859 W Bluemound Rd, Wauwatosa, WI
Bank robbed Friday by dress-wearing suspect
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300 N 110th St, Wauwatosa, WI
Suspect Michael Leviston captured here within one minute
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Man wearing a dress robs Tri-City Bank and is apprehended one minute later, police say.
WAUWATOSA, WI – It took police all of one minute Friday morning to nab a man who had just robbed the Tri-City National Bank. He wasn't hard to spot. He was the man running madly down the street in a dress. An alarm came from the bank branch at 10895 Blue Mound Road at 11:12 a.m. and the police dispatch went out at exactly 11:14, Lt. Gerald Witkowski said, seeking a black male in his 50s wearing women's clothing and headed south on foot. One minute later, the suspect was in custody, Witkowski said. A patrol officer nearby on Mayfair Road pulled a quick U-turn when he heard the robbery dispatch, and moments after getting onto West Mount Vernon Avenue he saw a subject running up the street in a dress. The suspect turned up North 110th Street…
Jim Price
8:33 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
Actually, I take part of that back – police have already asked for the public's help (see last paragraph of story). Just not through partial/inadequate descriptions. Note that the police say the robbers' faces were covered. more ›