Crosstown and Community Cooperation Catches a Thief, Police Say
Woman's checks are stolen before she knows she has them, but thanks to an alert banker and a neighbor who puts right above friendship, she keeps her money, and a suspect faces all the charges he deserves.
A banker, a neighbor and two police departments put it together to catch a thief and help out a Wauwatosa woman, police reports say. She was driving home Monday afternoon when she got a call from her new bank, the Associated Bank branch at North 59th Street and West North Avenue in Milwaukee, where she had just recently opened a checking account. "Have you received your first box of checks yet?" the banker wanted to know. "No, I haven't," she said. "Why?" "Well, there's someone here trying to cash one of them for $1,000." The woman was taken aback, of course, and told her banker that by no means had she written a check to anyone – couldn't have. The bank staff stalled the man and called Milwaukee police, who arrived to question him. He …
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