A Burglar Caught? Or Just a Really Disoriented and Inebriated Man?
Tosa police catch suspect breaking window at office building, but his story leads DA to reduce charge.
Wauwatosa police last week either caught a burglar in the act of hitting another local business – or they caught a clumsy, inebriated citizen trying to wake up his grandmother in a building nowhere near where she lives, if she lives at all. The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office split the difference and let the man off with a misdemeanor. You be the judge. At 1:53 a.m. Wednesday, a 61-year-old Wauwatosa man was arrested for burglary after police caught him in the act of breaking and opening a window at a commercial office building in the 6300 block of West North Avenue. A neighbor across the street had called police when he heard loud banging noises and the sound of breaking glass and looked out to see the suspect swinging an …
