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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Police Reports: Desperate Man Steals Mouthwash to Get a Buzz

Young South Milwaukeean tells officers his alcoholism, for which he was in rehabilitation, got the better of him.

  • POLICE & FIRE
  • Jim Price
  • Thursday, July 5, 2012

A young man troubled by alcoholism stole two bottles of mouthwash Friday from a Wauwatosa supermarket and quickly downed one of them to take the edge off his uncontrollable urge to drink. At 3:25 p.m., police arrested a 23-year-old South Milwaukee man for retail theft after he ran away from Metcalfe’s Sentry Foods, 6700 W. State St., with two half-liter bottles of Listerine mouthwash. A store security officer said he had seen the man taking the mouthwash and tried to stop him as he left the store, but he ran. He had crossed West State Street and the railroad tracks into Hart Park, the employee said, and then just sat down on the ground. Police officers found him there and learned that just while crossing the street and the tracks, the man …

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Sentry Foods Stores, Days Inn, Hart Park, and 6 more ›

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Senseless Acts of Vandalism Witnessed, Filmed

Two men appear to have acted out some pent-up aggression on a random car and business, kicking in their doors for no clear reason.

  • POLICE & FIRE
  • Jim Price
  • Thursday, June 28, 2012

Two separate reports of brazen vandalism that occurred blocks and minutes apart in the early morning hours of Saturday appear to have been committed by the same two men. A Wauwatosa woman reported that while her car had been parked overnight in an apartment building lot at 10900 W. Blue Mound Rd., someone had kicked both the front and rear driver’s side doors of her car. Police interviewed residents of the apartments and found that a woman had witnessed the incident at around 2:20 a.m. She said she had heard two men yelling and seen one of them kicking at a car in the area where the victim had parked. Because of a partly restricted view from her window, she could only say that the man was wearing tan cargo shorts. Asked why she hadn’t …

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Wauwatosa Police Department

Monday, June 25, 2012

Police Reports: Resident Finds He Has a Guest In His Garage

Homeowner begins to find things appearing in, rather than disappearing from, his unlocked garage, and determines he has a tenant.

  • POLICE & FIRE
  • Jim Price
  • Monday, June 25, 2012

A week doesn't go by when someone in Wauwatosa does not report that someone has entered or broken into their garage and taken something away. But one Tosa homeowner recently found things appearing in his garage – things that definitely did not belong there. A resident of the 8900 block of Stickney Avenue reported to police June 17 that over the past week he had noticed some items in his detached garage that did not belong to him and upon further review and investigation believed that some stranger had been living there. He found several bottles of urine beside his car, and also a cell phone, a pocketknife, some gift cards and a dark green winter coat. The gift cards, one from 2008, were either outdated or never activated, and provided no …

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CVS Pharmacy, Buy Rite Liquor, Normandy Village Apartments, and 2 more ›

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tom dusick

10:55 am on Tuesday, September 11, 2012

he'd be dead within two hours....   more ›

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Police Seek Likely Suspect in Office Burglaries

Man investigated in theft of checks now leaves evidence that he may have broken into offices, vandalized equipment and stolen computer.

  • POLICE & FIRE
  • Jim Price
  • Sunday, June 24, 2012

A Milwaukee man already considered a possible suspect in the theft of checks from a Mayfair Road office is now considered a strong suspect in burglaries, a theft and vandalism at two offices in the same building. The owner of Kepa Services, Suite 100, N. Mayfair Rd., reported that he had arrived at work about 8 a.m. Tuesday and found the door to his office unlocked and his laptop computer missing. As police were investigating that burglary, another was called in from Suite 385, the office of Capitol Title and Closing Services. There, an employee had found the office unlocked and computer and printing equipment used and vandalized. There, the employee said that she first noticed that her computer was not on and that it failed to start when …

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Kepa Services, Inc. and Wauwatosa Police Department

Friday, May 18, 2012

Two 14-Year-Olds Arrested After Weeks-Long Reign of Vandalism

They keyed and egged cars, dumped garbage and smashed lights in supposed payback for name-calling. But they are undone by their own eggs.

  • POLICE & FIRE
  • Jim Price
  • Friday, May 18, 2012

Two 14-year-old Wauwatosa boys were arrested last Saturday for disorderly conduct after they traumatized at least four families in the 7300 block of Wellauer Drive for several weeks by egging houses and cars, keying multiple vehicles, turning over garbage cans in the alley, dumping garbage cans on vehicles and smashing solar yard lights. The son of one of the victims provided the clue that led his father to confront one of the boys, who lives nearby. His son told him that he has a friend who works at Pick ‘n Save who had heard that the two suspects were buying a lot of eggs there. The father went to the boy’s house and confronted him with the allegations. The boy admitted to the more minor offenses but denied damaging cars. However, when …

Deb Strzelecki

5:24 pm on Tuesday, May 22, 2012

LOL, Jim. After enjoying organic, free range eggs is the past, the only thing PNS eggs are good for is ammunition. BTW, my source for decent eggs has retired. Any suggestions? I so miss those buttery, flavorlful, rich, delectable orbs.   more ›

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Police Reports: A Whole Set of Dumbbells

Young man hosting a birthday party politely asks his over-served friend to leave, and when he doesn't, decides to throw his weight around.

  • POLICE & FIRE
  • Jim Price
  • Wednesday, April 25, 2012

From the "with friends like these..." file: At 2:25 a.m. Thursday, police were called to a home in the 7800 block of W. Wright St. on a report of an injury. The officer who responded said he saw several people scattering from the residence when he arrived, and discovered that an underage drinking party had been going on. A 17-year-old Wauwatosa boy was found hiding under the basement stairs and was cited for drinking, and a couple of other youths were rounded up for questioning. An 18-year-old Wauwatosa man was bleeding profusely from a wound on the back of his head, and he and his friends said he had fallen down from drinking. He admitted he had drunk at least seven shots of whiskey. But it eventually came out from the witnesses that the …

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Macy's, Mayfair Mall, Walgreens, and 2 more ›

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Police Reports: Four Teens Try Big Candy Heist, But All Get Caught

In another incident, a man arrested for having a stolen temporary license on his car said he thought a friend did 'a pretty good job' of illegally altering it for him.

  • POLICE & FIRE
  • Jim Price
  • Saturday, March 10, 2012

At 9:49 a.m. Tuesday, two 17-year-old boys and two 18-year-old men, all from Milwaukee, were arrested for theft after they grabbed and bolted out of Pick ‘n Save, 6950 W. State St., with display boxes of candy worth more than $350. Police found them loitering nearby but without the candy. However, video cameras outside recorded them carrying the ill-gotten goods in bags toward the back corner of the store, then returning without the bags. The cache of candy was soon discovered hidden among some shrubs, and more video footage and eyewitness testimony from inside the store was enough to positively identify them. One of the teens admitted he was playing hookey from school, that all four went to Pick 'n Save with the intention of stealing lots…

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Jacobus Park, Wauwatosa East High School, Kmart, and 6 more ›

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Bottle Bomb Rattles Homeowner, Neighbors in Suspected Harassment Case

Resident believes he has been the subject of harassment by at least one area boy with whom he once had words.

  • POLICE & FIRE
  • Jim Price
  • Tuesday, February 14, 2012

If, as he believes, a Wauwatosa resident has been targeted for more than two years by a juvenile with a grudge, that situation escalated sharply Sunday morning when a plastic bottle left near the front of his home exploded. The man had noticed the bottle in his yard early in the morning but thought it was just litter and did not immediately remove it. Police believe that if anyone had been holding the bottle or near it when it exploded, it could have caused serious injury. According to police reports: At 8:38 a.m., Wauwatosa police were called to the area of North 90th Street and Stickney Avenue to investigate a “very loud bang.” The caller said he didn't think it sounded like a gunshot but more like an electrical transformer exploding. …

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Wauwatosa Police Department

Monday, January 9, 2012

Police Reports: Counterfeiters Still Hard at Work

Target reports fake $100 just passed by a customer, then turns over six more found out after the fact.

  • POLICE & FIRE
  • Jim Price
  • Monday, January 9, 2012

At 5:27 p.m. Friday, police were called to Target, 3900 N. 124th St., on a report that a woman had just passed a counterfeit $100 bill. The woman had left the area by the time officers arrived. The clerk said she thought the bill “didn’t feel right” when she accepted it, but she made change anyway while trying to stall the customer until a manager arrived. The customer rushed out of the store when managers approached. The bill proved to be a bleached and reprinted $5 bill, and Target management also turned over six more counterfeit $100 bills, all of them reprinted $5s, and one fake $10 bill. Those phonies had all been discovered after cash drawers had been turned in, long after the fact. The suspect was described as a black woman with a …

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Target, Home Depot, Boston Store, and 1 more ›

Monday, November 28, 2011

Police Report: Season's First Filched Christmas Tree; Charity Burglarized

Incidents stand out as hardly in the spirit of the holidays.

  • POLICE & FIRE
  • Jim Price
  • Monday, November 28, 2011

A couple of crooks started off the holiday season in a decidedly Grinch-like way, one of them stealing a woman's Christmas tree and the other breaking into the area offices of Habitat for Humanity. At 11:43 a.m. Sunday, a resident of the 2600 block of North 91st Street reported that her artificial Christmas tree had been stolen off her back patio where she had set it up for the season. She said she had put up the tree Wednesday and then left town for Thanksgiving, returning Sunday to find her $150 tree gone. At 1:29 a.m. Thursday – Thanksgiving morning – police were called to answer a burglar alarm at Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity, 3015 N. 114th St. Video surveillance footage showed a man entering a door that was not equipped with an …

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Home Depot, Pick'n Save, Pacific Sunwear of California, and 11 more ›

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