Thursday, May 16, 2013
Woman finds electronics and other property stolen in break-in, then her live-in ex-husband discovers that his handgun is gone from under his mattress.
A .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol with a loaded magazine and 50 extra rounds was among property taken in a home burglary, the second time in a week and third in 2½ months in which a weapon or weapons was taken in a Wauwatosa home break-in. This time, though, just the one gun was stolen – five and then 10, respectively, were lost in the prior crimes – and this pistol was relatively well hidden, compared to the earlier incidents when large numbers of firearms were left out in the open. At 11:03 a.m., a resident of the 2600 block of North 65th Street called police after discovering the home she shares with her ex-husband had been broken into. She said she had gone to a doctor's appointment at 9 a.m. and returned at 11, unlocked her front …
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Don't go barging into your own home if you know someone else has. Husband and wife stop short when they see things amiss, and police are able to gather some evidence.
They made one innocent mistake in home security, but a Wauwatosa couple did all the right things to assist police when they found their house had been broken into. At 11:50 a.m. May 6, after leaving home around 9, the wife and husband came home from work for lunch and found a small window, one of three, had been knocked out of their front door. They also noted that although the door was closed, the deadbolt had been unlocked. They stopped right there, did not touch a thing, and called police to their home in the 700 block of North 119th Street. Officers found the whole decorative window from the door had been knocked out, frame and all, and was lying intact inside the door. They surmised a burglar had then reached in and was able to turn …
43.038509
-88.06058
700 N 119th St, Wauwatosa, WI
Daytime burglary in this block
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Once again, firearms collections left unsecured are stolen in a Wauwatosa burglary. This time, there is a witness who almost reaches police in time to stop the perpetrators.
A frightened woman hid behind a bush earlier this month as she watched two men carry more than $5,000 worth of rifles and shotguns out of her neighbor's home in broad daylight, the second such burglary in Wauwatosa this year. The woman then crept inside to call police, but even as she described the situation to dispatchers, the burglars drove off and escaped. At least 10 long weapons — rifles, shotguns and a pellet gun — are unaccounted for following this latest theft. According to reports, police were called at 9:45 a.m. May 3 to the 4400 block of North 108th Street on the report of two men carrying guns out of a house and fleeing west on Congress in a boxy gray or silver vehicle. Officers arrived to find the service door to the attached …
43.09705
-88.046999
4400 N 108th St, Wauwatosa, WI
Rifles and shotguns stolen in burglary in this block
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Monday, May 6, 2013
Neighbor saw vehicle backed into driveway but assumed it was a regular cleaning service. Homeowners say, though, it was not their house-cleaning day.
A resident of the 1400 block of North 123rd Street reported last Tuesday that his home had been broken into between 6:50 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. He told police he returned from work to find a window pane in his door shattered. He left the house for safety and to preserve evidence and called police, but then told them he thought his dog might have scared off anyone trying to enter. Not so, he and officers discovered when they toured the home together. A box containing a large number of coins had been taken from his desk, and his wife's jewelry box had been rummaged through. She could not be sure if any jewelry had been stolen. The coin box and some of the change that had been in it were found in the breezeway, and detectives collected it for …
43.048144
-88.065604
1400 N 123rd St, Wauwatosa, WI
Daytime home burglary in this block
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Report of a home invasion in progress was a fake to pull patrol officers away from area where a store would be broken into minutes later.
Wauwatosa police said a 911 report of a home invasion early Saturday was a fictitious diversion to draw as many police officers as possible away from a real burglary committed three minutes later at an East Tosa jewelry store. Police still responded to the actual break-in within six minutes, but that was enough time for the burglar or burglars to grab fistfuls of gold necklaces and escape. According to police reports: At 2:41 a.m. Saturday, all east-end police squads were sent racing toward an address in the 1900 block of Pleasant Street on a call from a man who said someone was breaking in while he and his daughter were in the home. The call came in on a 911-only phone. Three minutes later, a burglar alarm sounded from Gold Emporium, 7024…
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-87.999992
The Gold Emporium
7024 W North Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Burglarized after diversionary 911 call
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43.055134
-88.012207
1900 Pleasant St, Wauwatosa, WI
Home invasion reported here was a fake to divert police
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Break-in artist in one case is something of an acrobat, climbing a too-convenient tree while carrying a brick, while in another case, it's only a matter of climbing the stairs and turning the doorknob.
If you really thought about it like a detective – or if you had one inspect your home – you'd probably find there are more ways in than you realize. Two Wauwatosa residents learned the hard way this week. According to police reports: A resident of the 6900 block of West Wells Street reported Wednesday that between 6:45 and 10:40 p.m. his home was broken into and property was stolen. He told police he had gone out for the evening and was sure he had securely locked the front door and turned out the lights. When he returned, he noticed a ceiling fan and light was on in his dining room. Searching the house, he found things missing, rooms and drawers opened, and the back door unlocked. He thought it was possible he had left that door unlocked…
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Woman's flat is cleaned out of electronics, and even her collection of movies, in daylight break-in.
A Wauwatosa woman learned the hard way that not all locks are secure, and locks that aren't locked surely aren't, after a burglary cost her all her home electronics. At 5:32 p.m. Friday, the woman, a resident of the 9100 block of West North Avenue, reported that some time since 7:30 a.m. someone had broken in to her third-floor apartment. She had returned home to find her door closed and locked, as she'd left it, but when she went in she immediately saw that her electronic equipment was missing. From her living room, a desktop computer and games, her television set, her DVD player, three video game consoles with controllers and games, from 150 to 200 DVD movies, and a laptop computer were all gone. From her bedroom, another DVD player was …
43.060469
-88.026209
9100 W North Ave, Wauwatosa, WI
Apartment burglarized in this block
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
When cash and prescription narcotics began to go missing from her home, woman enticed her next-door nephew into going to the well once too often.
A Wauwatosa woman did all the heavy lifting for the police when she suspected her nephew of repeatedly burglarizing her home to steal cash, set out $20 bait for him, and then extracted a confession after the money disappeared. The 21-year-old was charged April 10 in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with burglary, a felony punishable by up to 12 years in prison. Wauwatosa Patch is not naming the defendant or providing the location of the incident to avoid identifying the victim and other family members. The victim told police that by habit she kept cash in a kitchen cabinet, and beginning in January, the money started to vanish. Also, pills went missing from an old prescription bottle of Oxycontin. The woman said that led her to suspect her …
Monday, April 1, 2013
Uncle and nephew quarrel, and by his own admission, according to reports, the younger man broke into and broke up his uncle's home. But did he also steal? Baffling relationship has police shaking their heads.
A 21-year-old Milwaukee man is standing charges that he broke into a Wauwatosa home, according to court records. But police reports show that what was initially investigated as a burglary, pure and simple, became instead a case of malicious damage, and yet could turn back into burglary again – depending on whether the homeowner is, in turn, turning up the heat on the accused. Complicating the matter is that the two are relatives who have developed some strong bones to pick. According to police reports: At 8:31 p.m. Monday, the tenant of the upper flat of a duplex in the 2400 block of North 65th Street reported a burglary in progress in the homeowner’s lower flat, and said she knew he wasn’t home. Police arrived and found a back window …
Sunday, March 31, 2013
For Jelani Spencer, it isn't so much what the voices are telling you but whether you're listening when it matters.
Jelani H. Spencer, 19, said he heard his mother's voice telling him how sad she would be if he committed a burglary, he told authorities, and that stopped him short of breaking into a Wauwatosa home. He did, however, by his own admission, bust out a window at a residence in the 6300 block of West Clarke Street before his conscience got the better of him, and that cost him a criminal charge to go along with a dozen others he was already facing. Spencer was seen by a neighbor going into the back yard of the Clarke Street home on March 19, and that woman called police. Spencer was arrested a short time later and found with a pry bar that he later admitted he used to break out a window in the back of the home, according to police reports and a…
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