Arrest Made In Oak Creek Pick 'n Save Bathroom Incident: Report

OAK CREEK, WI — Police in Oak Creek say they made an arrest after an incident involving a woman who was in the Pick 'n Save bathroom.

According to Oak Creek Police call logs, officers were sent to the Pick 'n Save on S. 27th Street at just after noon on Jan. 24 on a report of a woman locked in a bathroom.

Call logs stated that one store employee called police, saying the woman locked herself in the bathroom and began screaming and pounding on the walls. Another employee told police they thought the woman was overdosing in the bathroom.

According to police, officers who arrived reported learning that the woman had been in the bathroom for more than an hour and was unable to stand or walk out on her own.

Police said the woman, 26 years old and from Milwaukee, left a syringe cap on the bathroom counter, and a backpack that contained unused syringes, a tourniquet, two cooking tins and a glass smoking device with charred residue.

Police call logs stated that the woman was arrested and cited for possession of drug paraphernalia. She was transported to the Ascension Hospital in Franklin to be checked.