Mom Abandons Sick 4-Year-Old in Walgreens

Short of money for prescriptions, a mother leaves her sick child behind and tells police she'd rather have his hospitalization or death on Walgreens' head and not hers.

WAUWATOSA, WI - The mother of a sick 4-year-old boy abandoned him at a Wauwatosa Walgreens store last Thursday when a pharmacist wouldn't fill her prescription due to lack of funds. The woman later told police she was frustrated with the system when her prescription payment card came up short and, according to the police report, said "she was not going to take (her child) home without the medication because she did not want to deal with him crying all night." "Furthermore," the report goes on, "she stated that if something worse were to happen" to her child, "like getting more sick or dying, it would not be on her hands but on Walgreens hands because they refused to provide her the medications." According to the police reports, the woman …

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Nancy Hall

10:54 pm on Monday, May 13, 2013

This happened in Wauwatosa. The father was at 'Tosa West and came to pick the child up. It's all in the article.   more ›

Tosa Man Pleads Guilty to Armed Robbery of Pharmacy

In plea deal, 24-year-old defendant cops to one count in which he held up a pharmacist for drugs and was caught red-handed by a handy police officer. Two more counts were dismissed but read in to his record.

A 24-year-old Wauwatosa native pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to robbing a Walgreens pharmacist at gunpoint for prescription narcotics, according to court records. Robert John Schweitzer initially had been charged with three pharmacy robberies, all while armed and all for narcotics, and had pleaded not guilty despite having admitted them all to police. In a plea negotiation, the state dismissed two counts but ordered them read in to the record. As such, they may be considered by the judge at sentencing but are not recorded as convictions; neither can they compound Schweitzer's sentence beyond the maximum penalty for one count. As it is, armed robbery is punishable by up to 40 years in the Department of Corrections – typically maximums of …

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Small Charity: Man Makes $1 Donation on Stolen Credit Card

Defendant admits he stole woman's wallet from her purse at Wauwatosa McDonald's and went on a spending spree with a woman he picked up on the street.

A Milwaukee man showed a little bit of his generous side in a purchase he made at an East Side drug store. While he was charging $143.29 worth of cigarettes and candy to a credit card, the clerk asked whether he'd like to make a $1 donation to the American Diabetes Society. Sure, he said, why not? It wasn't like it was his money. The credit card he was using was stolen from a woman in Wauwatosa, police say. Vincent Jerome Reed, 49, has been charged in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with felony fraud in making multiple purchases and attempting several more on Nov. 24 with the purloined card. If convicted, he faces up to six years in prison. According to the criminal complaint: On Nov. 26, a woman came to the Wauwatosa police station to …

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Knife-Wielding Thief Turns Out to Be 16-Year-Old

After multiple thefts and sightings in which boy brandished, showed or was seen with a knife, boy gets caught while fleeing from an attempted liquor theft from Sentry.

  A suspect who turned small-time retail thefts into terrifying episodes by brandishing a large knife at store employees has been caught – and revealed to be a 16-year-old boy. At 6:55 p.m. Wednesday, the boy and a 17-year-old girl were arrested for theft from Metcalfe’s Sentry Foods, 6700 W. State St., after police spotted their car and pulled them over. The boy's 2-year-old nephew was with them. The three of them had entered Sentry together, and a manager noticed that the girl was carrying a large empty bag, which aroused his suspicions. As he watched, they went to the liquor department, where the boy began openly stuffing bottles of liquor into the girl's bag. Several Sentry employees moved to bar their way as they headed for the door. …

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Same Man Flashes Knife During 2 Separate Retail Thefts

Confrontation in parking lot over a bottle of liquor turns terrifying when thief's companion pulls knife on two Walgreens employees. In second incident, theft is thwarted but suspect again threatens a store manager.

  Wauwatosa police are seeking a man who on successive days, during retail thefts at two different Walgreens stores, flashed a large hunting knife at employees who tried to stop him or his accomplices. According to the police reports: At 4:05 p.m. Friday, during a retail theft of liquor by a woman at the Walgreens at 10800 W. Capitol Dr., her male companion brandished a knife at two employees. A store manager there said that the two were in the liquor section and kept opening the doors on a display, which repeatedly triggered an intercom announcement that “Assistance is needed in the liquor department.” He noticed that neither of the two appeared old enough to drink. The manager saw the young woman take a bottle of vodka and a bottle of …

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Store Manager Smells Trouble; Parolee Ends Up in the Pits

Police say a Milwaukee man caught stealing sticks of deodorant from a Tosa drug store told them he did so because he needed to repay someone.

You can’t help but wonder what this guy borrowed, and why, that this was deemed the best way to pay it back. Derrick Ramon Robinson, 37, of Milwaukee was charged Wednesday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of retail theft after police said they caught him stealing sticks of deodorant from a Wauwatosa Walgreen's store. If convicted, he faces up to nine months in jail and $10,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: On Tuesday, the manager of the Walgreen's saw Robinson in the store sticking multiple sticks of deodorant down his pants, so he called the police. Robinson then purchased one travel-sized tube of toothpaste and left the store. Officers arrived and found Robinson outside the store with the deodorant …

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Jim Price

9:43 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2012

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Two Woman Accused of Passing Forged Prescriptions

Police say the two women first claimed they're filling a prescription for a man they met outside a Wauwatosa Walgreens, then admit a friend was paying them to pass the forgeries for pills.

Two Milwaukee women are accused of passing forged prescriptions for Oxycodone at area pharmacies. Sierra L. Jackson, 21, and Aleah J. Morris, 19, were each charged Tuesday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, one count of attempting to obtain a controlled substance by misrepresentation, and one count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. If convicted, they each face up to 16 years in prison and $70,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: On Oct. 20, Wauwatosa police officers were called to Walgreens, 2275 N. Mayfair Road, after Jackson came into the store and tried to pass a forged prescription. Officers spotted her car nearby and pulled…

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Woman Charged with Stealing, Filling Narcotic Prescription

Criminal complaint accuses defendant of swiping a wallet left at her doctor's office, then filling a prescription she found in it for Oxycodone.

A 39-year-old Milwaukee woman is facing charges that she stole another woman’s prescription and filled it at a Wauwatosa pharmacy. Janara Daneili Jenkins was charged in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation. If convicted, she faces up to six years in prison and $10,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: On March 28, the victim was at the doctor and was given a prescription for Oxycodone. But before she could leave, she needed to call her physical therapist. The woman left her purse in the examining room and went to use the phone, but came back to get the number for the therapist out of her purse. Jenkins was in the room at the time, she told police. The woman took…

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Chicago Woman Accused of Stealing Customers' Wallets at Mayfair

Suspect allegedly steals wallets out of two different customer's purses, then takes them to other stores to make big purchases.

A 58-year-old Chicago woman is facing charges after she allegedly stole and used credit cards from two different women shopping at Mayfair Mall. Mary Hellen Hightower was charged Friday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of theft from a person and two counts of unauthorized use of personal identification. If convicted, she faces up to 22 years in prison and $45,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: On May 8, the first victim was shopping at the mall, and when she got home she noticed her wallet was missing from her purse. The woman contacted her credit card company, which found out three suspicious transactions were placed at a nearby Walgreens. Police contacted an employee working at the time of the transactions…

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Patch Deal of the Day

Top 10 Drugstore Deals with Printable Coupon Links; Freebies Galore

Sara Conrad from SarandipitySaves.com shows you that being cheap can be oh-so chic with fortuitous frugal discoveries.

There's some spiffy savings happening in the drugstore world this week so I thought I'd kill two....errr....budget birds with one column. ;) Let's start over at Walgreens.... Walgreens makes saving is pretty easy with their Register Rewards program. Each week there are oodles of deals which produce Register Rewards, or RR for short. They will print with your receipt at the checkout and can be used on future purchases like cash.  There are a couple caveats though. You can not use an RR to purchase an item from the same brand as what the RR originally developed from. When you use the RR just make sure you do not use it to buy other items from said company.  Also, if you're using manufacturer 'pons make sure you do not have more items in your…

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