Monday, February 21, 2011

SMALL TOWN CRIME WAVE 2.21.11

February 16th City of Oshkosh
A 23-year-old man was cited for retail theft after he was caught trying to leave the store with a package of needles he had not pair for. The man admitted to police that had grabbed the needles off the shelf before going into the restroom and using them to pierce his own lip.

February 16th Village of Bellevue
A 61-year-old Wal-Mart cashier was fired after she was caught on camera stealing $20 from a register and eating bags of M&Ms while working.

February 14th Town of Grand Rapids, WI
Police received a report from an Abby Lane resident that someone damaged a snowman they had made in their yard.

February 12th City of Waupun
A woman said someone has been throwing a tire in the middle of the railroad tracks. She has moved it twice now, but someone keeps moving it back.

February 11th Village of Winneconne
A 57-year-old Winneconne woman called police to report finding a harassing letter from an unidentified neighbor in her mailbox. The letter, signed by a "very disgusted and angry neighbor", criticized the woman for walking her three Shih Tzus unleashed and not cleaning up after them. In the letter, the neighbor threatened to take video images of the woman and turn them in to authorities. Police responded by telling the woman...to clean up after her dogs.

February 10th City of Brookfield
Police were called to a clothing store where an intoxicated man reportedly struck a manager in the face with a plastic bag containing a hat.

February 13th City of Brookfield
A 46-year-old man was cited for misuse of an emergency number for calling 911 to report that a restaurant refused to deliver pizza to his house.

January 28th City of Oshkosh
Police investigated a retail theft on South Koeller Street where an 18-year-old woman was caught stealing clothing. The woman told officers she had no money and needed the clothes for her baby. From an examination of the stolen merchandise, she apparently has a very large baby since most the stolen clothes were the same size as those worn by the mother.

February 8th City of Greenfield
A 22-year-old man was cited for possession of heroin after he passed out using the drug in the bathroom...of the brain injury unit at Mount Carmel Nursing Home.

February 13th City of Beaver Dam
A woman reported that someone walked into her home on East Circle Drive the night before and took an aspirin from her pill box.

January 26th City of Oshkosh
A caller notified police of seeing a car leave the road and crash into a ditch on West Ninth Avenue. When police arrived on the scene, the driver told them, "I'm drunk. I was driving reckless at least 14,000 miles per hour and I'm in Appleton."

February 16th City of Portage
A 36-year-old man was arrested for violating an absolute sobriety condition of a misdemeanor criminal bond after police received a report that he was drunk and throwing snowballs.

February 14th Town of Saratoga, WI
A woman called police to report someone entered her home… and stole her fish tank.

February 13th City of Waupun
A woman on Reids Drive called to request police assistance. She told them her parents and her oldest brother were visiting her home and they won’t leave.

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