Wednesday, April 3, 2013
After a Wauwatosa man was arrested in North Dakota for sexual assault, investigators say they learned the man was involved in distributing counterfeit merchandise.
A sexual assault arrest of a Wauwatosa man in North Dakota led area police to discover counterfeit clothes and handbags in storage lockers, reported Patch media partner WISN 12 News. Adrian Williams, 51, was arrested in Jamestown, ND, on sexual assault charges and police also say they found drugs and counterfeit merchandise in his car. Williams owned stores where he sold knockoffs in Wauwatosa as New Millenium Productions and in three other communities in Wisconsin. He also opened a number of stores North Dakota and Wyoming. The North Dakota Attorney General issued a cease and desist order against Williams and his businesses last week. Police searched his Wauwatosa apartment, three cars and four storage lockers that were filled with …
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
House is completely scavenged by break-in artist, who family suspects may be an acquaintance.
There are burglaries, all of them bad, and then there is this kind: A home thoroughly ransacked from top to bottom, nearly every nook and cranny opened and every personal item handled and strewn about, valuables of every kind stolen. And the family suspects it might have been done by a "friend." Police are seeking the burglar who forcibly entered a two-story Wauwatosa home and stole thousands of dollars worth of property Friday night. According to their report: A couple and their son returned from a day trip at 12:06 a.m. Saturday to their home in the 1900 block of North 71st Street and found a scene of chaos. When they entered their front door, they said, it was instantly clear that their home had been pillaged, with laundry, knick-…
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Boy allowed to roam freely from Carmelite Home finally runs into trouble.
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
A week doesn't pass without at least a couple of reports of runaways from the Carmelite Home for Boys on Kavanaugh Place. Nothing comes of most of those reports — the boys show up later, or at least they don't show up in another police report. But this latest incident left us wondering who's minding the store. At 2:30 a.m. Friday, a 16-year-old boy was arrested for violating curfew after he was reported as a runaway from the home at 1214 Kavanaugh Pl. A school official said the boy left at 1:45 p.m. and not returned. She also said that he had walked away from the school every day since May 31, but had always returned before midnight. She said the boy had been sent there from his home in Madison but seemed to have made some friends in …
Monday, May 23, 2011
Theft on Kavanaugh Place prompts extra vigilance after three other incidents.
Day-shift police officers on Sunday asked for increased night patrols in parts of Wauwatosa after a spate of vehicle entries the night before. At 3:33 p.m. Sunday, police responded to a call from a resident of the 1100 block of Kavanaugh Place that at some time between 1 and 6:30 a.m., someone had entered his unlocked car and stolen a jacket with $10 in the pocket, $7 in quarters, a pair of work gloves and an iPod, all amounting to $382. He found the jacket in the front yard of a home five doors down the street. The police report did not say why the owner waited most of the day to report the crime. Police forwarded this report and three other similar calls to the night shift for extra patrols. Reports for the other incidents had not yet …
Friday, May 13, 2011
Front door crashed in during brash daylight burglary; entire home is ransacked.
In a brazen break-in, a Wauwatosa home was roamed from top to bottom Tuesday with more than $3,600 in property taken from nearly every room after the thief or thieves simply crashed through the front door. At 6:50 p.m., a couple and their son living in the 10300 block of West Ruby Avenue reported that at some time between 8:45 a.m. and 6:15 p.m., someone had broken into the home and stolen several TVs, game consoles and other items. The son had come home from track practice in the evening but had entered through the garage and did not notice the front door had been broken open. He went first to the basement and immediately saw that the family’s TV was missing from its stand and that his Xbox game system was gone. Going upstairs, he also …
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Saturday, April 2, 2011
Usual rash of thefts occurred in Tosa, but no serious crimes and no OWIs reported.
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Saturday, April 2, 2011
Police incident reports made available since Monday showed no serious crimes of violence or involving the use of weapons – except, perhaps, a snow shovel in one case, and fists in a physical outburst by an 11-year-old girl in another. There were also no reports of drunken driving arrests. Retail theft, especially at Mayfair Mall, continues to be a chronic source of police calls, and there were a couple of instances of smash-and-grab thefts from vehicles, one targeting a Best Buy “Geek Squad” Beetle. Thursday At 9:07 p.m., the Carmelite Home for Boys, 1214 Kavanaugh Pl., reported that a 16-year-old had run away. The boy had been informed that he would be taken to juvenile detention this weekend. He had run off and been AWOL numerous times, …
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
A roundup of the latest Wauwatosa police reports.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Based on available police reports placed on file since Wednesday, things have been a bit quieter than ususal on the Wauwatosa crime beat in the past week. Two incidents of violent crime included a strong-arm robbery in which a 14-year-old Milwaukee boy was beaten up and robbed of $10 by three other Milwaukee boys, two of them 15 and one 14. The victim was well acquainted with his assailants and all three were arrested. The incident occurred at 1 p.m. Thursday outside in the 2400 block of N. Wauwatosa Avenue. In the other case, friends who had been drinking and watching basketball got into a fight at 1:48 a.m. Sunday at a residence in the 4200 block of North 95th Street, leading to charges of battery and disorderly conduct against a 35-year…
Monday, March 28, 2011
Federal investigation turns up sexual images of young children on computer, hard drives.
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Monday, March 28, 2011
A Wauwatosa man faces federal charges of possession and distribution of child pornography after agents searched his home and found images of young children engaged in sex acts, authorities said. Alex Grade, 23, was indicted after FBI agents conducted the search in early March as part of an investigation that had been ongoing since September. According to an indictment filed March 22, agents recovered a computer and two external hard drives that contained graphic images of young boys and girls, many thought to be as young as 5 years old, engaged in sex acts with adults and with one another. In one case, an image involved an adult engaged in a sex act with an infant. Grade was not in any of the images, according to the indictment. While …
Damage mounts to more than $2,000 as tagger trashes boys bathrooms again and again.
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Monday, March 28, 2011
An isolated case of scribbling on school walls is not normally enough to warrant an investigation, but staff at Wauwatosa East High School called police after daily acts of vandalism over two weeks had socked the school with more than $2,000 in cleanup costs. According to a police report filed March 21 – the same day officers were summoned – school officials had had enough when they returned that day to find a boys bathroom once again defaced with a wide-tipped blue permanent marking pen, apparently by the same perpetrator. School staff said the miscreant was "taunting" them with the message, "I'm back," written repeatedly on bathroom stalls and walls. East Principal Nick Hughes said Monday the offender had not yet been caught and the …
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12:08 pm on Sunday, April 8, 2012
Huh? Beautifully written story about a burglary? Really? I mean, sure, I guess it's well written, hits all the marks a journalist should but beautifully written considering the subject matter - that' messed up more ›