Crime & Safety
Man Fled From Police After Stealing iPads, Video Games, Police Say
Antonio Hogan of Milwaukee has been charged with felony retail theft and fleeing police, also a felony, after he and two accomplices tried to walk out of Best Buy with a cartload of goods, according to police.
A 25-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of loading up a shopping cart with video games and iPads and then waiting in the parking lot for his friend, who pushed the cart out the door.
Antonio Lamar Hogan was charged in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on Monday with a pair of felonies: attempting to flee or elude a traffic officer and felony retail theft.
He faces a maximum 9 ½ years of imprisonment and $20,000 in fines, if convicted.
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According to court records, Hogan and an accomplice were spotted by Best Buy security loading video games and iPad tablets into a cart Nov. 7. The items were valued at $7,655.
When police pulled up to Hogan’s vehicle in the parking lot, while his accomplice was loading the merchandise into it, Hogan drove off while his accomplice fled on foot.
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Police followed Hogan, and a third accomplice who was in the vehicle, down Layton Avenue to Loomis Road. The vehicle Hogan was driving was later found abandoned on Loomis Avenue near 47th Street.
Hogan is due back in court March 28.
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