Friday, May 24, 2013
In possible inside job, three Harwood Avenue shops sharing the same building and a common back hallway are entered, only one by force, and nearby Niemann's Candies reports someone tried to pry its back door open.
Three Tosa Village businesses were burglarized the night of May 15, and an attempt was made to break into another. The first report was called in from Blue Lapin, 7600 Harwood Ave., at about 9:45 a.m., and in short order it was discovered that Urban Laundry and Oro di Oliva, in the same building and sharing a back hallway, had also been entered. About an hour later, officers were called to Niemann's Candies, 7475 Harwood, where it had been discovered that someone had tried to pry open the back door, without success. At Blue Lapin, an employee had unlocked the back door to the building and then found the hallway door into the shop closed but clearly having been jimmied. She immediately left the way she came, without touching the forced door…
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Blue Lapin
7600 Harwood Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Forcible entry and theft of cash
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Niemann's Home Made Chocolate Shop
7475 Harwood Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Attempted break-in
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Extra effort and resources will focus on both drunken driving and speeding as police seek to protect those out to enjoy the beginning of summer.
The High Visibility Enforcement OWI Task Force will be out this holiday weekend, with most metro area agencies deploying additional officers all weekend long for Memorial Day. Wauwatosa will be no exception. In fact, as usual the Tosa Police Department takes a leading role in Task Force deployments. "There will be a slew of different enforcements out there," promises Tosa PD Capt. Tim Sharpee, who is the Task Force coordinator for the whole region. Besides bumped-up drunken driving enforcement, Tosa plans High Visibility speed monitoring as well, Sharpee said. "With it being Memorial Day, we know people are going to be traveling," Sharpee said. "It's supposed to be nice weather, so people will be using the parks, they will biking and …
Monday, May 20, 2013
Curious crashes and odd exchanges mark arrests of several first-offense OWI suspects.
At 3:09 a.m. May 9, a man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, first offense, after he crashed into two metal poles following an odd altercation with his wife. Two citizen callers alerted police, one of whom, in the 2100 block of Swan Boulevard, said there was a woman running down the street yelling "Call the police!" The other caller, moments later, reported a crashing sound at Swan and North Avenue. Separate officers located the wife and her husband at about the same time, and reported that both appeared highly intoxicated. The driver was uncooperative and so beligerent he was restrained and handcuffed immediately and put in the back of a squad car, where he commenced kicking and screaming. He refused to make a statement or to …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Blaring music and failure to pay tickets and maintain proper registration make a quick trip to the convenience store a beacon for police attention.
A man with two drunken driving convictions on his record probably could have gotten away with a quick errand in the neighborhood had he not gone out of his way to draw so much attention to himself. At 2:50 a.m. – an hour when few are on the road but many who are have been drinking – on May 8, a patrol officer at Wauwatosa Avenue and West Center Street heard extremely loud music pounding from a car at the BP gas station on the corner. The officer pulled in and saw that nobody was in the car. He ran the plates and found they were suspended for unpaid parking tickets and expired since January, yet there was an improper 2014 registration sticker on the back plate. The officer pulled out and parked north of the gas station to watch, and soon a …
Thursday, May 16, 2013
With owner's permission to drive (but no license), juvenile steps on it to try to elude police, ending up wrecking his friend's mother's car and landing in Detention Center.
A Milwaukee boy fled from a Wauwatosa police officer, led him and a cavalcade of other officers on a 2.6-mile high-speed chase, and then, just as police were giving up the pursuit, crashed into a fence and ran. He must have had been deep in some pretty serious business to do that, right? Nope. He just wasn't old enough to drive and was afraid of the consequences. At 1:59 p.m. Saturday, a Tosa patrol officer monitoring traffic in the 1800 block of North 60th Street saw a car approaching from the north and accelerating rapidly beyond the speed limit. He clocked it at 45 mph in the 25-mph zone as it passed him, and he pulled out to make the stop, with lights flashing. The officer said the driver slowed to about 30 mph and it appeared he was …
Woman finds electronics and other property stolen in break-in, then her live-in ex-husband discovers that his handgun is gone from under his mattress.
A .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol with a loaded magazine and 50 extra rounds was among property taken in a home burglary, the second time in a week and third in 2½ months in which a weapon or weapons was taken in a Wauwatosa home break-in. This time, though, just the one gun was stolen – five and then 10, respectively, were lost in the prior crimes – and this pistol was relatively well hidden, compared to the earlier incidents when large numbers of firearms were left out in the open. At 11:03 a.m., a resident of the 2600 block of North 65th Street called police after discovering the home she shares with her ex-husband had been broken into. She said she had gone to a doctor's appointment at 9 a.m. and returned at 11, unlocked her front …
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Probationer has a bundle of strange booty in his bindle that doesn't belong to him, but despite elegant police investigative work, he draws only a municipal citation.
What started as nothing more than an unattended bag left on a couch in Mayfair Mall turned into quite an investigative coup for the Wauwatosa police, leading them to believe they had a basis for four serious criminal charges. In the end, an assistant district attorney quashed that plan, and a habitual thief walked with a municipal citation. At 4:22 p.m. May 3, police were called to the upper level of Mayfair near Spencer's Gifts when a black duffel bag was found unattended on a sofa. Officers opened the bag and quickly found a driver's license receipt with a name. The Mayfair security chief was on hand, and he paged that name to return for his bag. But in the meantime, Tosa police officers were digging further in the duffel, and the next …
Don't go barging into your own home if you know someone else has. Husband and wife stop short when they see things amiss, and police are able to gather some evidence.
They made one innocent mistake in home security, but a Wauwatosa couple did all the right things to assist police when they found their house had been broken into. At 11:50 a.m. May 6, after leaving home around 9, the wife and husband came home from work for lunch and found a small window, one of three, had been knocked out of their front door. They also noted that although the door was closed, the deadbolt had been unlocked. They stopped right there, did not touch a thing, and called police to their home in the 700 block of North 119th Street. Officers found the whole decorative window from the door had been knocked out, frame and all, and was lying intact inside the door. They surmised a burglar had then reached in and was able to turn …
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700 N 119th St, Wauwatosa, WI
Daytime burglary in this block
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Once again, firearms collections left unsecured are stolen in a Wauwatosa burglary. This time, there is a witness who almost reaches police in time to stop the perpetrators.
A frightened woman hid behind a bush earlier this month as she watched two men carry more than $5,000 worth of rifles and shotguns out of her neighbor's home in broad daylight, the second such burglary in Wauwatosa this year. The woman then crept inside to call police, but even as she described the situation to dispatchers, the burglars drove off and escaped. At least 10 long weapons — rifles, shotguns and a pellet gun — are unaccounted for following this latest theft. According to reports, police were called at 9:45 a.m. May 3 to the 4400 block of North 108th Street on the report of two men carrying guns out of a house and fleeing west on Congress in a boxy gray or silver vehicle. Officers arrived to find the service door to the attached …
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-88.046999
4400 N 108th St, Wauwatosa, WI
Rifles and shotguns stolen in burglary in this block
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Friday, May 10, 2013
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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Walgreens
2275a N Mayfair Rd, Milwaukee, WI
Mother abandons sick 4-year-old when she's short on prescription
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Exrepublican
8:22 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
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