Friday, March 29, 2013
Wanted for burglary and carrying a pocketful of pot, 23-year-old ran from an officer, but just added obstruction to the list when Tosa patrol officer proved he had more endurance.
A young Milwaukee man who led a Tosa police officer on a long and wearing nighttime footrace – and lost – because he didn't want to be arrested on a burglary warrant now faces additional charges on top of that. Vincent Lee Sims, 23, was charged March 18 in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with obstructing an officer and possession of marijuana. Both are misdemeanors, the obstruction charge carrying a maximum penalty of nine months in jail and the marijuana charge up to six months. At 2:14 a.m. March 16, Sims was walking in the middle of North 60th Street, in the 2500 block, with a 19-year-old Wauwatosa woman. A Wauwatosa patrol officer stopped them for a field interrogation for safety reasons, and after identifying Sims learned that he was …
Thursday, March 7, 2013
While working at a men's hair salon in downtown Milwaukee, Lauren Anderson over three months defrauded the owner three different ways, investigators say.
A Wauwatosa woman is charged with stealing almost $24,000 from the Milwaukee men's hair salon where she worked, according to a criminal complaint. Lauren Rose Anderson, 23, was charged Feb. 26 in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with theft by fraud in an amount more than $10,000, a Class G felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and fines of up to $25,000. According to the complaint: Milwaukee police were called by a forensic accountant hired by Groom for Men, 330 E. St. Paul Ave., after discrepanicies in the books were found. The private accountant and a police detective confirmed that between Nov. 10, 2010, and Jan. 31, 2011, while Anderson was working for the business as office manager, she embezzled funds in the following ways: A …
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Patrol officer fears driver is about to ram her while she's stopped helping another motorist on Mayfair Drive, but at last moment suspect veers into median.
A Trevor, Wis., woman was arrested and has now been charged with her fourth drunken driving offense after she almost ran over a Wauwatosa police officer who had stopped at roadside to help a motorist whose car was disabled. Tiffany F. Garcia, 25, of Trevor had previous OWI convictions in 2008, '09 and '12, and was charged again Friday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with her fourth count in less than five years, making it a felony punishable by up to six years in prison. According to the criminal complaint: On the night of Nov. 17, a Wauwatosa patrol officer had pulled over behind a disabled car on North Mayfair Road at Walnut Road to help the driver. Her emergency lights were flashing. She noticed a set of headlights approaching from …
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-88.04785
N Mayfair Rd & W Walnut Rd, Wauwatosa, WI
Officer nearly struck by drunken driving suspect
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
All together 11 armed robberies and one attempt could add up to several lifetimes worth of prison sentences.
The man arrested on suspicion of robbing and carjacking three young men at gunpoint on Feb. 2 in Wauwatosa has been charged with that crime and 16 more, all felonies, most of them also armed robberies. Kenneath Turner-Harris, 22, committed the string of robberies and some burglaries from at least early November through his capture on Feb. 3, according to a criminal complaint. That came after the car he was driving in a Milwaukee robbery was identified as the one he'd stolen from a Wauwatosa man. All told, Turner-Harris is accused of 11 armed robberies, 1 attempted armed robbery, two burglaries, two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon and one count of fleeing an officer. Each count of armed robbery is punishable by up to 40 years …
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Famous Cigar
7030 W North Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Robbery of three young men Feb. 2 later leads to arrest when stolen car is used in another robbery
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Minor tells police she and the defendant were kissing in his car, but when he tried to fondle her, she resisted, and he then forced her into sex acts.
A 18-year-old Wauwatosa man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old Wauwatosa girl after she told police he forced her into sex acts in his car, according to a criminal complaint. Ryan Robert Wirtz was charged Friday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with second-degree sexual assault of a child younger than 16, a Class C felony punishable by up to 40 years in prison. According to the complaint: The girl told a Wauwatosa police officer on Dec. 4 that two nights before, Wirtz picked her up in his car at her home and the two drove around for awhile drinking vodka. Wirtz stopped the car in the 800 block of Honey Creek Parkway, she said, and they began to kiss. She told officers she did so willingly. But then, she said, Wirtz …
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-88.012099
800 N Honey Creek Pkwy, Wauwatosa, WI
Girl, 15, tells police man sexually assaulted her in his car here
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Baited and robbed, an Oak Creek man says, he clutched the escaping car and tried to get his goods, but the driver just kept going faster until he had to bail.
Three people have been charged with robbery and recklessly endangering safety after they duped an Oak Creek man into handing over $300 for a phone and then drove off while he clung to their accelerating car, a criminal complaint says. The victim said he had rendezvoused in Wauwatosa with a woman selling the phone on Craigslist, and when she and two men with her started away with the phone and his money, he reached into the car trying to grab the phone, then found himself going for a ride on the wrong side of the door. He let go and rolled away when he realized they were just going to keep going faster, he said. Wauwatosa police spotted the car not long afterward and arrested the three suspects. Charged last week in Milwaukee County Circuit…
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-88.046876
Qdoba Mexican Grill
418 N Mayfair Rd, Wauwatosa, WI
Three charged with robbery and endangerment after driving off with victim clinging to car
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Friday, February 8, 2013
Driver charged with a felony after plowing into another car at 80 miles per hour on Mayfair Road, causing 2-week-old girl to be ejected in car seat with life-threatening injuries.
A 2-week-old girl suffered severe injuries after she was ejected from her mother's car when it was hit by a driver going an estimated 80 miles per hour on North Mayfair Road. The driver caused a four-car accident with five injuries and has been charged with felony reckless driving causing great bodily harm. Susan Kline, 64, of Glendale faces up to three years and six months in prison if convicted in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. According to the criminal complaint, Kline was speeding because she was angry over being unable to find a "wig club" meeting she wanted to attend. Police were called to the scene at North Mayfair and West Capitol Drive and found four cars badly damaged and multiple accident victims. A witness told officers he had…
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-88.047717
N Mayfair Rd & W Capitol Dr, Wauwatosa, WI
Infant nearly killed in horrifying accident caused by speeding driver
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Friday, February 1, 2013
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 …
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Photos released in strange case of East Troy man who police say hatched a bizarre scheme to murder an old friend, but the defendant's get-up was part of the giveaway.
An East Troy man who was bound over for trial on a charge of attempting to kill a Wauwatosa man had developed a long-planned plot, police said. But officers did not find the diguise he chose very convincing, and in fact felt that it helped quite a bit in putting a stop to the plot. Police have released with-and-without photos of the defendant, and viewers may judge for themselves. The first police officer to encounter the defendant instantly noticed that he did not conform to the norm – he was wearing sunglasses after dark. Daniel Plevak, 54, did not challenge the findings of the criminal complaint against him, which accuses him of setting out to murder an old friend who he had come to believe was a child sex offender. Police found no …
Friday, January 25, 2013
Apparently, the word is getting around – if the police are chasing you, just jump into a capacious waste container. But that doesn't really seem to be working out....
For the second time in two weeks, Wauwatosa police had to drag a criminal suspect out of a resident's garbage cart. This time, a 17-year-old Milwaukee boy has been arrested and charged with stealing a Wauwatosa resident's car, not getting far, and dumpster diving in an attempt to evade a legion of police officers and a K9 sniffing him out of his odoriforous hiding place. Javontae Jakell Taliaferro was charged Thursday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with operating a motor vehicle without the owner's consent and jumping bail on open cases of robbery, battery and resisting arrest. The auto theft charge carries a maximum penalty of six years in prison; the bail jumping charge up to three years and six months, exclusive of the other pending …
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-87.99964
2600 N 70th St, Wauwatosa, WI
Car stolen from before resident's eyes in this block
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Toni Araiza
2:17 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
Really? This young woman's pouting for what reason? Maybe she's upset because this is not her best pose, or maybe because she's being inconvenienced? Well, think again young lady. Your asinine carelessness and irresponsibility almost cost another one of our officers their livelihood and their absence at family functions. Before we know it she'll receive bail and she'll be out and about picking up… more ›