Police suspect same actor in one pillaging burglary and in another attempt foiled when the owner turned out to be home; in another, break-in costs residents dearly, while in a fourth, dim criminal gets in but can't get big TV out small window.
Residents of a home in the 2600 block of North 73rd Street reported Monday that between 10 and 10:53 a.m., someone entered their house through an unlocked second-story porch door and stole a very wide variety of property from throughout the home. High-value goods including a Mac Book laptop computer, jewelry, video game systems with controllers and games, U.S. savings bonds and cash were stolen – but so were girls' clothing from the teenage daughters' room, a coat and two shirts from the couple's bedroom closet, shampoo, body wash and cologne from one dresser, and a razor and blades and a nose-hair trimmer from another. Their two daughters, who had left the house together at 10, told officers they had seen a suspicious character on a …
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-88.003969
2600 N 73rd St, Wauwatosa, WI
Home ransacked in burglary in this block; suspect on bike seen
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43.03974
-88.007269
800 N 76th St, Wauwatosa, WI
Burglar on bike chased off by resident in this block
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-88.054216
4100 Menomonee River Pkwy, Wauwatosa, WI
Family's home hit hard by break-in in this block
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43.068042
-88.005977
2700 N 75th St, Wauwatosa, WI
Dull-witted burglar tries to fit big TV through small window in this block
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Burglars found door into second business after prying open first.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Jim Price
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
All seemed normal to a Brookfield man when he arrived at his business in Wauwatosa shortly before 6 a.m. last Wednesday. But after he unlocked, the feeling changed. Overnight, someone had broken into Z3 Technologies, in a commercial building at 11400 W. Blue Mound Rd., and taken two computer monitors and $20 in loose change. But there had been no sign of forced entry. It turned out it was the second of two burglaries in the building, and access to his office was gained through an unlocked door between his and an adjoining CPA’s office. That office had been broken into by someone prying open the front door. A cabinet had been placed in front of an unused door between the offices. The burglars found it, moved the cabinet and rifled both …
