Police Blotter: Aldi Employee Reports a Shrimp-Napping

Retail theft happens often in Greenfield with the usual incidents involving a large retail or grocery store chain and someone trying to walk out with clothing, electronics or some other common items.

But this kind of shoplifting doesn’t happen all that often.

On March 1 at 6 p.m., an employee at Aldi, 4615 W. Layton Ave., reported someone walked out with four cases of shrimp with a total value of $440.

That and the following incidents were reported in the Greenfield Police Department log for the week of Feb. 25 through March 3:

• Two men stole a cart full of tools from Kmart, 4601 S. 27th St., at 9:15 a.m. Feb. 25.
• An employee of Stan’s Fit For Your Feet, 7405 W. Layton Ave., reported graffiti – the initials DMC – spray painted on the east side of the building sometime before Feb. 26.
• A Milwaukee County Transit bus slid into a bus shelter in the 5700 block of West Layton Avenue at 10 p.m. Feb. 26, during last week’s snowstorm. No injuries were reported.
• The inner coil of an air conditioner were taken from a residence in the 11000 block of West Sarah Court around midnight Feb. 27.
• A woman in the 4400 block of South 46th Street reported her residence had been broken into and items stolen sometime before 5 p.m. Feb. 27.
• A deer was dispatched in the 11700 block of West Howard Avenue after it was struck by a vehicle and injured at 6:15 p.m. Feb. 28.
• A 43-year-old man was arrested for third offense drunk driving in the 4200 block of South 27th Street at 2:20 a.m. March 1. The man was also found to have a bench warrant with Racine County for operating after revocation.