Teen Raked Woman's Leaves, Then Burglarized Her Home, Police Say
Woman paid boys to do a job and trusted them to finish, but left them alone with her home unlocked, court document says. They repaid her trust by burglarizing her, it concludes.
A criminal complaint cast new light on a burglary reported earlier in which two Milwaukee teenagers were arrested on suspicion of entering a north side home and stealing a television set. One of the youths has been charged, and police investigators now say the Wauwatosa homeowner had hired him and his friend to rake her leaves before they slipped inside and made off with her TV. Donte Cunningham, 17, was charged in Thursday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of burglary. If convicted, he faces up to 7½ years in prison and $25,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: On Oct. 29, a woman living in the 4100 block of North 96th Street hired Cunningham and a friend to rake leaves in her yard – something not noted in …
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