SMALL TOWN CRIME WAVE 7.6.10

June 30th City of Oshkosh
Police received a call at 7:10am from a 41-year-old man on West 10th Avenue who wanted to report a theft. When police arrived at the residence, the extremely intoxicated man told officers that he left a pizza in the residence, but a woman inside would not let him into the house to retrieve it. The man allegedly chest bumped an officer three times and then squared off to fight the officer. The man was arrested and jailed before being released on bond. At 9:56am police were called again after the released man returned to the residence to resume his search for his pizza. He was arrested again, this time for criminal trespass and was transported back to jail.


July 1st City of Shawano
A woman called police to report someone had been putting pine cones in her yard.

July 3rd City of Wisconsin Rapids
A man reported seeing a man wearing an orange shirt go underneath the Grand Avenue bridge but not come back up. Officers discovered the "man" was actually...an orange construction barrel.

June 14th City of Chilton
Police received a report of harassment on East Washington Street. Responding officers found it was an ongoing issue of one friend stealing another friend's "beer shirt" and then not giving it back. The responding officer returned the shirt to the rightful owner.

June 16th City of Green Bay
Police were called to a Marquette Avenue residence where a couple hit each other with a metal pan over an argument stemming from a man having trouble placing a fan in a bedroom window.

June 30th City of Beaver Dam
A woman on East Third Street called police and reported there were baby rabbits in her yard. The caller said there was no sign of a mother rabbit around and wanted police to do something about it.

July 2nd City of Wisconsin Rapids
An officer responded to two anonymous reports of a chicken running loose on Lincoln Street. The responding officer was unable to locate the loose-running chicken.

June 24th Village of Bayside
Police responded to a call from a resident on North Bayside Drive where their black lab was being attacked by a coyote. The coyote was chased off before police arrived by an angry dachshund.