Thursday, November 29, 2012
Fearing the trouble he'd be in, 15-year-old tries to outrun – or just outlast – pursuing police officer by pedaling his way to freedom.
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- Jim Price
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Sometimes a bicycle rider can escape a chasing car, but only by going where the car can't go – not by outrunning it. A worried 15-year-old Wauwatosa boy, despite pedaling frantically, could not outpace a police cruiser when he couldn't get off the beaten tracks of Wauwatosa Village. It didn't keep him from trying, though. He persistently refused to give up on his getaway ride even as the officer drove for blocks alongside him, at a modest speed, imploring him to just stop. The episode began at 1:35 a.m. Nov. 21 when a patrol officer saw three youths riding bikes unsafely and long past curfew down the middle of North 68th Street near Cedar Street. They looked underage, so when they turned onto Terrace Court, he followed, spotlighted them …
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Hungry driver tells police he knew his truck was too tall to get under that railroad bridge the moment he smacked into it.
More than one Wauwatosa Patch reader wrote to ask what all the excitement was about on Wednesday afternoon when, they said, they saw police cars and fire trucks rushing about madly around Swan Boulevard and West North Avenue and blocking off Swan to the south. There is an M&I Bank branch at the corner – had it been robbed? Hardly. At 2 p.m., a patrol officer spotted a truck that had hit the railroad bridge over Swan, just beyond the entrance to Tosa Pool. [UPDATE: The police report on this incident clearly stated it was a semi-tractor truck; however, the attached picture snapped by reader April Tillman Cavanaugh just as clearly shows it was in fact a large rental box truck. Patch hopes the driver bought the full insurance.] The driver told…
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Parents, do you know where your children are? The police do.
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- Jim Price
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
A large number of young teens from Tosa and nearby communities were having quite a get-together Saturday night, including alcohol and, apparently, marijuana, when the police showed up. As a result, three boys, a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old from Wauwatosa and a 15-year-old from West Allis, were arrested for underage drinking in the 1100 block of Honey Creek Parkway, and several girls were questioned and released. At 10:53 p.m., a patrol officer spotted a boy and girl walking near Chestnut St. and Kavanaugh Place. They ran when they saw him, and he chased them down Dewey Hill to find a gathering of about 20 kids at the bottom, most of whom also scattered. Two girls, a Wauwatosa 14-year-old and an Elm Grove 15-year-old, remained and were …
Jim Price
5:50 pm on Monday, December 3, 2012
And... as I thought, no video will be released because of the age of the suspect. Sorry. Just have to use our imaginations. more ›