Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Woman stopped with a hoard of stolen goods including a load of laundry detergent, no good explanation of how she got it, and an avalanche of evidence against her.
A woman who pushed her way out of Walmart Market on Sunday with not one but two shopping carts loaded with laundry soap, disposable diapers and other merchandise tried to deny the deed after the van she left in was spotted and stopped with everything still inside. But eyewitnesses, videotape and UPC codes on boxes and bottles of Tide detergent undermined her story, which was thin to begin with, according to Wauwatosa police. The woman's case was expected to forwarded Monday to the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office, with police seeking charges of felony theft and felony bail-jumping. According to police reports, at 6:15 p.m. Sunday officers were called to the store at 3850 N. 124th St. and given a description of a van and its …
Thursday, May 2, 2013
If you have a sheaf of arrest warrants in your name, it is perhaps best not to go around irrigating public trees at the top o' the morning.
A teenager with a lengthy list of minor but active infractions he had been ignoring decided to respond to a call of nature on a busy street. The rest is predictable. At 8:40 a.m. Saturday, the 18-year-old Wauwatosa man was arrested for disorderly conduct and on outstanding warrants after a caller reported him urinating on a tree along the sidewalk in the 2500 block of North 72nd Street. An officer spotted the suspect in the 7500 block of West Clarke Street and stopped him for questioning. The young man denied the allegation of urinating publicly, but the caller, who had followed, described how he had been backing out of his driveway with his young son in the car and had clearly seen the suspect "whip it out." The police officer noted that …
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Convicted of stealing upward of $80K from her Wauwatosa employer, a Greenfield woman's 4-year sentence is stayed in favor of 6 months in work-release jail. But that, too, is stayed after court is told no such program is available.
The former vice president of a Wauwatosa real estate company who embezzled more than $80,000 from her employer during a two-year span pleaded no contest and was sentenced Monday to four years in prison — but will not spend any time behind bars. Instead, Jolie M. Semancik, 43, of Greenfield, will serve four years of probation, including six months under a form of home work-release with freedom to travel to a job, child care and doctor appointments. That's because the GPS monitoring that was to be part of her original sentence no longer exists. Semancik pleaded no contest on March 25 in Milwaukee County Circuit Court to one count of theft of more than $10,000 by embezzlement. She could have been sentenced to up to five years in prison. …
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Two women say they were told this check-cashing thing was 'legit,' but it turns out to cost the a bundle.
Two women, one from Wauwatosa and one from Milwaukee, went to the police station Tuesday to report that they had been duped into a fraudulent check-cashing scheme. They explained to police that an acquaintance had asked them to cash some checks for her and her companion, that they would be given a share of the money, and it was all “legal” and “legit.” Despite some misgivings, they did so, on three occasions, at their own banks, cashing checks for $3,000, $4,000 and $6,000, turning over the money to their acquaintances, and receiving about 10 percent in return. Later, they were notified by their banks that the checks hadn’t cleared and that their own accounts had been debited $4,000 and $9,000 respectively. Police are seeking a known …
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Scheme to make hay from items taken from businesses in large office building unravels quickly, but each accomplice tries just as swiftly to deflect blame on the other, according to detectives.
A man and woman from Milwaukee who worked for a cleaning company took out more than the trash from several Wauwatosa businesses, according to a police investigation, and they are now charged with a variety of crimes. Darius Termaine Walker, 21, and Angela Rena Carnes, 47, were charged last week in Milwaukee County Circuit Court; Walker with felony forgery and two counts of possession of stolen property; Carnes with one misdemeanor count of theft. Their cases were separated because, so to speak, they separated their partnership when police uncovered their cleaning scheme. Each has blamed the other for the most serious of the crimes police say they committed. According to the criminal complaints: Reports of thefts began to trickle in from …
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2300 N Mayfair Rd, Wauwatosa, WI
Cleaning crew pair tries to clear out businesses
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Arrested this time for trespassing after running from a police officer, man with long lists of arrests and pending cases is once again fodder for the criminal court system.
Once again, a Milwaukee man all too familiar to Wauwatosa police as "the candy bar bandit" has been taken into custody, but the curious circumstances of his arrest allowed only a criminal charge of trespassing this time. Larry Al Green, 27, was charged Sunday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with criminal trespass to a dwelling, punishable by up to nine months in jail. But Green's court record shows that he could, eventually, be looking at a lot longer than that as his many court cases wend their way forward. According to police reports and a criminal complaint: At 12:51 a.m. Friday, Green was arrested for trespassing and on a fugitive warrant after a patrol officer spotted him carrying a bulging shopping bag in the 2300 block of North …
Friday, April 19, 2013
Woman thinks it's OK to park illegally while she's at work. Police officer disagrees. She'd get a ticket anyway, but yes, there is also a criminal records check involved.
A woman who thought it was no big deal to park in a handicapped parking space for her whole work shift at a Wauwatosa restaurant may think better of it next time. She landed in jail for calling attention to herself. At 8:47 p.m. Monday, the 28-year-old Milwaukee woman was arrested and jailed on three warrants after she made the mistake of parking illegally in a handicapped-only space at Buffalo Wild Wings, 2635 N. Mayfair Rd. An officer noticed her car in the restricted space with no handicapped plate or hang-tag, and in the process of writing a ticket found that she was wanted. He went in to BW3 to find her and learned that she was not a customer but rather a server. The woman's excuse for parking for her whole work shift in a handicapped…
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Buffalo Wild Wings
2635 N Mayfair Rd, Wauwatosa, WI
Employee gets a ticket to jail
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Brookfield man, already charged with five counts of property theft, now also faces six felony counts of identity theft for claiming to represent a plumbing company when he sold stolen flushers to salvager, reports say.
A Brookfield man already charged with stealing dozens of expensive toilet valves from fast-food restaurant and institutional restrooms has also been charged with six counts of identity theft for using a plumbing company's name to fence them. Cory James Feerick, 33, of Brookfield was charged March 28 in Waukesha County with five counts of theft of property and on April 16 in Milwaukee County with six counts of felony identity theft. Each count of property theft is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to nine months in jail. The new identity theft charges each carry a maximum penalty of up to six years in prison. According to criminal complaint in the newly filed identity theft cases: From Sept. 21 through Jan. 10, Feerick stole four flush…
Monday, April 15, 2013
Practice does not seem to make perfect in this man's career choice, but there seems to be no indication he is considering retirement.
A 64-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for his 55th time as an adult in an all-too-obvious attempted theft at a Wauwatosa Walgreens that included trying to conceal a walking cane, among many other things, under his clothing. At 8:10 p.m. last Monday, the suspect was arrested for theft and obstructing an officer, as well as bail jumping and as a fugitive on three warrants, after he was stopped with nearly $400 worth of merchandise stuffed in his jacket and down his pants at the Walgreens store at 2275 N. Mayfair Rd. He had been recognized when he entered as a repeat shoplifting suspect, and police were called when he was seen loading up his midsection with numerous items. When stopped, his clothing was bulging with knee braces, a cane, …
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Walgreens
2275a N Mayfair Rd, Milwaukee, WI
Suspect stuffs his clothes to bulging with an assortment of oddities
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
A 17-year-old seems intent on making a big haul from Macy's, but he's frightened into fleeing without the loot when his accomplice flees first from a stolen getaway van.
Ironically, police arrived just a bit too soon on a call to a suspected theft in progress at Mayfair Mall, scaring a suspect into abandoning his loot. But officers didn't go away empty-handed – they arrested an accomplice who was waiting in a stolen van, and he has been charged with a felony, and a robbery warrant put away his companion – who tried the job while wearing an ankle bracelt. Deishun Lamont Byrd-McWay, 18, of Milwaukee was charged Wednesday with one felony count of operating a vehicle without consent, punishable by up to three years and six months in prison. Charges of theft and resisting arrest were initially brought against his 17-year-old companion, also from Milwaukee, but were dismissed Thursday on the prosecutor's motion…
paul hruz
2:57 pm on Wednesday, May 8, 2013
And what will happen to the three of them, nothing they'll be back on the street doing it again more ›