Police Report: Update on Crime in Wauwatosa

Sunday

At 11:53 a.m., a 17-year-old Wauwatosa girl was arrested for disorderly conduct after police stopped to investigate her and two men who were arguing loudly in the middle of the street in the 7500 block of Hennesey Avenue. It turned out to be a boyfriend-girlfriend spat, but the girl refused to cooperate with police officers, fought them and had to be taken to the ground twice.

At 11:54 a.m., police were sent to investigate a vehicle break-in in the parking lot of , 2635 N. Mayfair Rd. A Waukesha man had reported the front passenger window of his car smashed and that someone had tried, unsuccessfully, to steal his radio, doing about $450 damage.

At 5:56 p.m., two Oak Creek women, 27 and 31 years old, were arrested for theft at at Mayfair Mall after they were seen concealing a large number of items and then caught outside the store with $872.45 worth of merchandise.

At 2:43 p.m., a 32-year-old Wauwatosa man who had been for carrying a concealed weapon was arrested again on the same charge and for bail jumping after his father called police to report that he thought his son had a gun and might be dangerous. He had a knife on him and a loaded .25-cal. handgun, a loaded .44-cal. magnum revolver and a shotgun in a bag in the basement of a home in the 2600 block of North 111^th Street, violating the conditions of his release on the earlier charge. He told police he thought he could keep the guns because they were his and didn't know a knife was considered a dangerous weapon.

At 7:57 a.m., police responded to a report of a stolen car from a resident of the 2100 block of North 65^th Street. The owner said his tan 1996 Toyota Camry had disappeared from the alley behind his home some time since 2 a.m. and that it had been unlocked but he had accounted for all keys. Police found no evidence at the scene.

Saturday

At 10:36 p.m., police were dispatched to , 11140 W. Blue Mound Rd., on a report of a burglar alarm. Officers found that someone had smashed the glass front door. Video footage showed a man repeatedly throwing a rock at the window at 10:11 p.m., apparently without setting off alarms. He left briefly, then returned at 10:26 and kicked in the glass and entered the store. He stole eight cartons of cigarettes, 120 lottery tickets and 23 quarters from the cash drawer. The same store had been burglarized in the same way on June 9, only that time the tool was a hammer and the target was liquor.

At 3:35 p.m., a contractor working at a home in the 2200 block of Wauwatosa Avenue reported that someone had stolen a concrete saw and blade worth $1,000 from the work site. He said he had set the saw down on steps near the sidewalk and was working about 25 feet away when a man walking down the street picked up the saw and ran with it, then jumped into a waiting SUV in the parking lot of M&I Bank, 7600 W. North Ave. He jumped into his truck and gave chase, but lost sight of the fleeing vehicle around 70^th and Wright streets.

At 9:37 a.m., a resident of the 3100 block of North 103^rd Street reported that the previous morning he had noticed he was missing his GPS unit from his car, which he had left unlocked the night before. He did not report the vehicle entry and theft until he later noticed he also was missing two specialty lineman’s tools worth $2,400.

Friday

At 12:57 p.m., two Milwaukee men, 42 and 51 years old, were arrested for retail theft after they were tracked down fleeing from Pick ‘n Save, 6950 W. State St., where they had tried to steal 28 bottles of liquor and three 12-packs of beer, all worth $733.79. An employee had noticed one of the men wearing a distinctive purple hat and recognized him as a suspect in earlier liquor thefts. That man distracted a clerk while the other wheeled a loaded cart out the door. But the deed was seen, and when the men were confronted loading the loot into the trunk of a car, they fled on foot and were caught in a neighborhood to the east. Two men sitting in the car denied they were part of the scheme. They had been blocked from leaving by an armored delivery truck.

Thursday

At 10:27 p.m., four Milwaukee men in their mid-30s were arrested for disorderly conduct after they got into a fight following a summer youth basketball game in which their children were playing at Wisconsin Lutheran College Recreation Center, 8725 W. Wisconsin Ave.

At 3:37 p.m., a 14-year-old Milwaukee boy was arrested for possession of narcotics and marijuana and four more boys were detained and questioned on suspicion of having entered a car parked in the 7300 block of Honey Creek Parkway and stealing an iPhone. The boys had recently fled from the scene of an earlier fight in the parking structure under Noodles and Co., 7700 W. State St., and one of them was identified as the assailant in that incident and arrested for battery, as reported earlier. The missing phone was not recovered.