Police Report: Couple Returns to Find Home Burglarized

A couple that lives in the 700 block of North 61^st Street reported that some time during the day Friday someone had broken into their home and stolen a 50-inch television, a wireless adapter, a cable and an Apple laptop computer, all worth $3,932.

The homeowners said they had locked the house and had been out all day, and when they came home around 9:50 p.m. they found the front door and a side door standing open.

Police found that the home had been broken into through a locked bedroom window that had been shattered with a rock after the screen was cut. The burglars had opened the doors from the inside to carry out the stolen goods and make their escape.

In other incidents from the report:

Sunday

At 2:48 p.m., a 46-year-old Milwaukee woman was arrested for retail theft at , 6700 W. State St., after she was recognized as a previous offender and watched. She proceeded to hide four porterhouse steaks in her purse. When a store security officer approached and identified himself, she dumped the steaks on the floor and walked out. However, the employee followed her out and detained her until police arrived.

At 9 a.m., a woman who lives in the 7700 block of Geralayne Drive reported that some time overnight someone had entered her unlocked car in her driveway and stolen cash, a Sentry gift card, a Nintendo DS3D video game controller and her $1,000 pair of Chanel prescription sunglasses.

Saturday

Four residents, two in the 2600 block of North 68^th Street and two more in the same block of North 67^th Street, reported that some time Friday or early Saturday morning someone had broken into their locked garages by forcing open the side doors. One was missing her snow blower and another his lawnmower; the other two residents did not find anything missing.

At 2:22 a.m., a 20-year-old Milwaukee woman was arrested for aggravated battery with a knife after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend, a 23-year-old Wauwatosa man, in the head. Police were called to his home in the 9500 block of West Sarasota Place on a report of a possible stabbing, then were radioed that the stabbing might have occurred during a robbery.
At the home, which belongs to the man’s mother, police found him sitting on the curb, bleeding badly, and the woman standing next to him. At first, the man said that he had been robbed and stabbed at the corner of North 87^th Street and West Capitol Drive and had walked home and called his girlfriend for help. But police found no evidence of a crime as he described it; however, they did find plenty of evidence – pools of blood – in the basement of his house. Their story soon unraveled into a tale of a boyfriend-girlfriend argument that turned violent. The injured man was sent to the hospital where he received stitches. He vowed not to cooperate in prosecution of his girlfriend.

Friday

For the second night in a row and third time in a week, the same resident of the 2200 block of North 60^th Street called police to report someone urinating at the bus stop at 60^th and West North Avenue. Police arrested a 22-year-old Milwaukee man for disorderly conduct and on an outstanding warrant for an earlier underage drinking violation in Wauwatosa. A 50-year-old Milwaukee man had been arrested Thursday night at the bus stop after the woman reported him for public urination, and the previous Saturday it was a 24-year-old Milwaukee man.

 At 2:51 p.m., a resident of apartments, 10900 W. Blue Mound Rd., called police to say that he had found a handgun sitting on top of the rear tire of a vehicle in the parking garage. Police found the Heckler and Koch .40-cal semi-automatic fully loaded and cocked with 12 rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber. Police contacted the owner of the vehicle, who said the gun was not his, but he went to the garage with police to inspect his SUV. He advised police that the vehicle next to his belonged to man that he suspected could be the likely owner of the gun, based on his “careless” behavior. Sure enough, when police located him and asked him if he owned such a gun, he said he did and went to fetch it. But he found the case empty and could not remember where he had put it. Police said the man’s apartment was “littered with beer bottles.”