Crime & Safety

Car Chases + Social Media Blackmail + Pizza Complaint: Waukesha Police

Police responded to a man throwing a brick through a window and a fight on Main Street, police logs from Saturday to Thursday show.

WAUKESHA, WI — Waukesha police responded to several calls, including two car chases, a fight and a domestic disturbance between Saturday and Thursday, logs from the Waukesha Police Department showed.

Two Car Chases

Police arrested a driver after a half-mile car chase on Wednesday, when they took off from a traffic stop on Meadowbrook Drive and Fieldhack Drive, police said. Police shut down traffic on Meadowbrook Drive between Golf Road Belmont Drive and stopped the car around 11:50 p.m.

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Officers gave commands to a driver and passenger inside, but they didn't respond at first, police logs showed. Police were about to bust the back window of the car when the passenger got out and walked towards them.

Police arrested another person who fled from a traffic stop and lost police briefly around Delafield Street and W. Moreland Boulevard on Saturday, police logs showed. After a car chase, police found the driver's car hastily parked without anyone inside near Northview Road in Pebble Valley around 2:09 a.m.

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While a K9 search time looked for the driver, officers found a cell phone and a stolen license plate left in the car, police said. The chase went on for nearly 2 miles before the driver was arrested.

Brick Thrown Through Window, Fight On Main Street

Police arrested a man after he was accused of throwing a brick through a woman's car window in the 1200 block of The Strand on Tuesday, police logs showed. A resident called police and said they recorded the man throwing the brick at the woman's car, before walking back inside a bar.

In a separate incident, the Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County took in an injured cat, and police arrested a person after a fight broke out in the 300 block of W. Main Street Tuesday, police logs showed. Someone called the police as an officer had someone on the ground, and the person kept resisting.

Man Blackmailed Through Kik, Uncut Pizza

A Waukesha man told police that he was being blackmailed through an app called Kik after sending a picture of his face to someone on Sunday, police logs showed. Someone on a separate phone number called the man and demanded $200, or they would "send Photoshopped pictures" of his face on a naked body "to all of his friends and family."

The manager of a pizza restaurant in the 400 block of W. Sunset Drive told police a customer was on her way to "kick all of their asses" because her pizza wasn't cut all the way through on Sunday, police logs showed. The woman yelled at a police officer and threatened employees at the Pizza Hut. She was told she could contact the general manager for a refund.

The woman stormed out in a "tirade of anger and foul language," police said.

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