Monday, January 7, 2013
An East Troy man stands accused of attempted murder of a Wauwatosa resident after a caller warns police that a truck has been circling his block — and officers find the driver has hatched a strange plot to kill an old friend.
OUTSIDE MILWAUKEE, WI -- A local man's obsession with protecting children and his delusion that an old friend was a child sex offender led him to plan to murder the man, according to police, as detailed in a criminal complaint. Daniel G. Plevak, 54, of East Troy, was charged Thursday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with attempted first-degree intentional homicide and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Although Plevak never actually confronted his intended victim, the complaint shows, Wauwatosa police believe he had the ways, the means and the clear intent to commit the crime of murder, that he was about to do so, and that their actions stopped its commission. According to the criminal complaint: About 5 p.m. on Dec. 30, a resident…
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9900 W Argonne Dr, Wauwatosa, WI
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Police say the 17-year-old admitted taking a fellow student's backpack and removing a school iPad, which was later sold.
A 17-year-old Wauwatosa West High School student accused of stealing a another student's backpack containing a school-owned iPad and textbooks has been criminally charged. Jeffery T. Robinson was charged Wednesday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of theft. If convicted, he could face up to nine months in jail and $10,000 in fines. According to police reports and the criminal court complaint: On Nov. 12, a student reported to the school office that his backpack had disappeared after he left it unattended near an exit during the last hour of classes. School officials reviewed security video and saw three students, including Robinson, gather around the backpack, which had wheels and a pullout handle. Robinson was seen pulling …
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Wauwatosa West High School
11400 W Center St, Wauwatosa, WI
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
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.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
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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Walgreens Store Wauwatosa
2656 N Wauwatosa Ave, Wauwatosa, WI
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Monday, December 10, 2012
A Wauwatosa man is arrested and accused of trying to break in to a truck in downtown Milwaukee after being thwarted by a woman looking for a prime parking space.
A search for a parking space for one woman ended poorly for a Wauwatosa man after she saw him trying to open the door of a truck downtown and thought he was going to be leaving a prime spot. Jerrell Leroy Washington, 48, was charged Saturday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of criminal damage to property. If convicted, he faces up to nine months in jail and $10,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: At 12:48 p.m. Dec. 6, a woman was driving around looking for a parking space in the 800 block of East Kilbourn Avenue when she saw Washington walk up to a truck and begin to pull on the back door as if he were trying to open it. The woman thought Washington owned the truck and was going to leave, so she stopped …
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800 E Kilbourn Ave, Milwaukee, WI
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
A Tosa man is accused of driving drunk to get a late-night bite at George Webb, and another driver runs a red light and falls afoul of drunken driving laws on way to work – their 2nd and 3rd OWI charges, respectively.
Two men, arrested an hour and a half apart the same night and both in the Wauwatosa Village area, have been charged with driving while drunk. One had been safely home but got hungry and couldn't resist getting in his car and slaloming toward an all-night diner, police reports said. He had already been convicted once of operating while intoxicated. The other, police said, ran a red light after drinking too much – on his way to work. He now faces his third OWI charge. According to police reports and criminal complaints: A 31-year-old Wauwatosa man is accused of driving drunk to an all-night diner, then crossing a center line in front of a Wauwatosa police officer. Eric A. Sampson was charged in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count…
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1200 N 68th St, Wauwatosa, WI
Second-offense drunk driving suspect pulled over
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1000 N 87th St, Wauwatosa, WI
Third-offense drunk driving suspect pulled over
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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.
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
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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Walgreens
2275a N Mayfair Rd, Milwaukee, WI
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Temporary agencies were targeted in a scam that netted at least $250,000 and perhaps more by creating phony companies with complicit employees, criminal complaint says.
After an investigation by Wauwatosa police that dates back to January 2010, and a lengthy, secret grand jury proceeding, four people, one a Milwaukee Public Schools employee, have been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud against six metro area temporary employment agencies. There are more suspects in those and related crimes, already totaling about $250,000 bilked from Manpower and other temp providers through payroll scams, according to police reports and a criminal complaint. The defendants are accused of having set up several phony businesses in Wauwatosa and defrauding the temp companies through short-term payments to enrolled employees who did no actual work. Charged with six counts each of felony conspiracy to commit theft by …
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
A Wauwatosa man is accused of telling his live-in girlfriend he knows she's planning to "get the piece of paper that got that girl killed in Brookfield," before squeezing her face and slapping her.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
A 37-year-old Wauwatosa man is accused of grabbing and squeezing his girlfriend’s face and then slapping her – and he also made threats in reference to the mass shooting at a Brookfield salon, warning the victim about any attempt she might make to get a restraining order against him, she told police. Ray L. Bradley was charged Friday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of battery/domestic abuse and two counts of disorderly conduct. If convicted, he faces up to 15 months in prison and $12,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: On Nov. 19, Bradley and his live-in girlfriend began to argue at their residence in the 2300 block of North 64th Street when he told the victim “you deserve to be in a body bag.” Bradley was…
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2300 N 64th St, Wauwatosa, WI
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
A Milwaukee man tries to cash a check stolen from a Wauwatosa woman, criminal complaint says; however, a teller notices the name of the account owner is spelled wrong.
A 21-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of trying to cash a forged check written from a Wauwatosa woman’s bank account after police say the check had the victim’s name misspelled. Lashannon Blackmer was charged Friday in Waukesha County Circuit Court with one count of uttering a forgery. If convicted, he faces up to three years in prison and $10,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: On Aug. 17, the victim contacted the Wauwatosa Police Department after she learned someone tried cashing a check from her bank account at an M&I Bank location in the 8300 block of West Silver Spring Road. The woman told officers he checkbook had been stolen two days before while she was shopping at Pick ‘n Save. An employee at the bank said Blackmer…
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8300 W Silver Spring Dr, Milwaukee, WI
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Woman paid boys to do a job and trusted them to finish, but left them alone with her home unlocked, court document says. They repaid her trust by burglarizing her, it concludes.
A criminal complaint cast new light on a burglary reported earlier in which two Milwaukee teenagers were arrested on suspicion of entering a north side home and stealing a television set. One of the youths has been charged, and police investigators now say the Wauwatosa homeowner had hired him and his friend to rake her leaves before they slipped inside and made off with her TV. Donte Cunningham, 17, was charged in Thursday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of burglary. If convicted, he faces up to 7½ years in prison and $25,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: On Oct. 29, a woman living in the 4100 block of North 96th Street hired Cunningham and a friend to rake leaves in her yard – something not noted in …
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4100 N 96th St, Wauwatosa, WI
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