Sunday, May 20, 2012
To increase safety belt use, law enforcement officers throughout Wisconsin will be patrolling city streets, rural roads, and major highways—day and night—during the Click It or Ticket mobilization from May 21 to June 3.
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Editor's Note: The following Letter to the Editor was provided to Patch via Wisconsin Department of Transportation Secretary Mark Gottlieb. Dear Editor, Traffic deaths in Wisconsin so far this year have increased compared with the same time last year. Tragically, in all too many of these recent deadly crashes, the drivers and passengers may have survived if they had been buckled up. It is a proven fact that wearing a safety belt will effectively protect you from being ejected from a vehicle or thrown around violently inside during a crash and possibly hitting another vehicle occupant with massive force. Wearing a safety belt at all times is common sense, so it’s hard to understand why approximately one out of five motorists in our state …
Suspect allegedly stole his aunt's necklace when she took him to a doctor's appointment and stopped for gas.
A 24-year-old Greenfield man is facing charges after he was caught pawning jewelry owned by his aunt and her mother. Daniel F. Tuchalski was charged in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on Friday with one count of theft. If convicted, he faces up to nine months in prison and $10,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: A Greenfield police officer on patrol Tuesday went to Robert Haack Diamonds to look for suspicious transactions where he discovered Tuchalski had come in May 10 and pawned two necklaces and a ring. He told store staff the items belong to his grandmother who had passed away. The officer then took pictures of the items to Tuchalski’s aunt’s home in the 5000 block of West Colonial Court where she said the items belong to…
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Robert Haack Diamond Importers
7530 W Layton Ave, Greenfield, WI
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Suspect becomes upset with a Greenfield man after he finds a broken plastic chair in his girlfriend's parking stall.
A 29-year-old Milwaukee man is facing charges after he threw a broken plastic chair at a Greenfield man’s window when he became upset with the chair being set in his girlfriend’s parking stall. Samuel L. Stokes was charged in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on Friday with one count of disorderly conduct. If convicted, he faces up to 90 days in jail and $1,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: On Tuesday, Stokes was at a residence in the 4800 block of South 72nd Street when he found a broken plastic chair sitting in his girlfriend’s parking stall. He then confronted another man about the chair, who was inside his own residence. Stokes stood outside yelling profanities and threatening the man before he eventually picked up the …
Local police are installing automated camera systems that can read and react to problem plates in an instant, keeping patrol officers safer and making them manifestly more efficient.
Suppose you are a police patrol officer. As you cruise the streets – even the highway – you keep your eyes safely on the road, both hands firmly on the wheel. At the same time, you scan every approaching car, every car in front of you, every car parked along the side of the road. You know in an instant when any one of those cars, even in heavy traffic, even in very fast traffic, has so much as an expired registration. You know in an instant when one of those cars has been reported stolen, or that it was seen as the getaway car in an armed robbery. Are you some kind of super-cop? Nope. No human has that capability. But local police officers, including those in Greenfield and Wauwatosa, soon will have it, thanks to technology that up to now …
The Greenfield fire and police departments were part of a tribute for Robert Wojczulis of Oak Creek, a Milwaukee County firefighter at Mitchell International Airport.
A giant American flag draped over Layton Avenue at Fire Station 1 set the backdrop for a ceremonial 'last ride' for a Milwaukee County firefighter Friday morning. Robert Wojczulis, 53, died of pancreatic cancer May 13. The Oak Creek resident had been a firefighter at Mitchell International Airport the last nine years. Before that, he was a City of Milwaukee police officer for nine years and was a 30-year military veteran. Fire and police apparatus from several departments, including Milwaukee, Greenfield, Franklin and Oak Creek were part of a funeral procession that left from Max A. Sass & Sons funeral home, 4747 S. 60th St., east down Layton Avenue toward Wojczulis's final resting place at Holy Sepulcher Cemetary in Cudahy.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Twenty members of the Greenfield Fire Department are participating in training that simulates at least 100 fire scenarios.
Around 2 p.m. Wednesday, several members of the Greenfield Fire Department command staff jointly tackled a huge blaze in a strip mall. Just a few minutes later, the fire started up again. And then again. And again. Don’t worry Greenfield, the command staff knows exactly what it’s doing. Twenty of 50 department members, including all company officers, acting officers and chiefs, have been participating in the Blue Card Command Certification Program, a training and certification curriculum that teaches incident commanders and officers how to standardize local incident operations across their organization. The program begins with 50-70 hours of online learning followed by 24 hours of in-class simulation training spread over three days at Fire…
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4333 S 92nd St, Greenfield, WI
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The suspect told police he stole the victim's wedding and engagement rings then sold them so he could buy heroin.
A 24-year-old Eagle man is facing charges after he stole a wedding and engagement ring from a Greenfield woman. Brandon Krostag was charged in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on Tuesday with one count of theft of more than $2,500. If convicted, he faces up to 3 ½ years in prison and $10,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: On May 9, a woman living in the 4100 block of South 64th Street contacted Greenfield police after she noticed her wedding and engagement rings valued at $3,000 were missing from the home. She suspected Krostag in the theft because he had been living in the home with her and has a severe drug problem. Krostag admitted to the theft and told police officers he sold the rings for $180 so he could buy heroin. He’…
During challenging economic times, the Greenfield Police Department has found solutions in Community Service Officers.
Crime cracking aside, one of the biggest challenges facing Greenfield Police Chief Brad Wentlandt on a regular basis is ensuring the department's budget and staffing needs are balanced. He must take into account the economic realities that the city and department faces, without compromising a certain level of service residents expect and need. Taking both into account, Wentlandt introduced the Community Service Officers program to the department during the 2012 budget process. A CSO is a part-time paid position but the officers are neither sworn in nor armed. They must be 18 years of age with a valid driver’s license and enrolled in some college program, preferably related to law enforcement. CSOs are generally scheduled during the daytime…
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The man tested a .15 on the intoximeter machine at the county jail, where he was booked on a misdemeanor charge.
A 42-year-old Greenfield man was arrested for allegedly driving with a blood-alcohol content of nearly twice the legal limit Monday, with a 4-year-old child in the car. According to a news release issued by Milwaukee County, a Milwaukee County Sheriff’s deputy on assignment at the lakefront at 5:25 p.m. was notified by a citizen who spotted the man, who appeared to be intoxicated, about to drive out of Northpoint parking lot. The deputy stopped the vehicle and asked the driver to perform field sobriety tests. The man tested a .15 on the intoximeter machine at the county jail, where he was booked on a misdemeanor charge of first offense operating while intoxicated with a minor. The man was held at the County Correctional Facility-South on $…
Subjects took “coning,” the so-called prank of purchasing an ice cream cone in a fast food drive-thru and grabbing the cone from the restaurant employee by the ice cream instead of the cone, to a new level.
An employee at McDonald’s, 5040 S. 76th Street, reported a tan van with several subjects drove through the restaurant’s drive-thru backwards and “coned” the employee at 10:40 p.m. May 12, according to the Greenfield Police Department incident log. “Coning”, a prank made famous by actor/comedian Tom Green, is the act of purchasing an ice cream cone in a fast food drive-thru and grabbing the cone from the restaurant employee by the ice cream instead of the cone. The act of driving backwards through the drive-thru is apparently another twist to the popular prank. Back in August 2011, employees at McDonald’s, 4550 S. 108th Street, experienced a number of incidents involving customers purchasing ice cream cones and then throwing them at …
David Cotey
9:10 am on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Joseph, I agree. I watched a YouTube video of coning, and it's pretty dumb. more ›