Friday, May 24, 2013
Odd calls last week required some relationship counseling and animal attention.
The Greenfield Police Department does a heck of a lot more than arrest people for stealing baby formula or shooting heroin. Officers often get their share of wacky and weird as well. For example, a man in the 3100 block of West Bottsford Avenue called police just after midnight May 19 seeking a reason as to why his live-in girlfriend had gone to Chicago with another man. The man was told to ask his girlfriend when she returned home. That same day, police had to warn a 10-year-old boy about growling at a neighbor’s dog after a woman reported the boy taunted her dog while she was out walking it in the 4000 block of South 65th Street. The dog acted up, dragged her to the ground and the woman injured her knee. And finally, a resident in the …
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Extra officers will be on every highway and street all weekend, says Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, and municipal police back that up.
The highways and byways of Milwaukee County will be crowded with traffic this long holiday weekend, and Sheriff David Clarke wants all drivers, those law-abiding and those not, to know law officers will be on the road with them – in numbers. With responsibilty for freeways, highways and parks, sheriff's deputies will be on heavy, highly visible patrol, Clarke said, along with local police and the State Patrol. "Memorial Day weekend represents the start of the summer driving season, when highway travel increases dramatically," Clarke said at a press conference Thursday. "Triple-A estimates 627,000 Wisconsinites will travel more than 50 miles from home by car between today and Monday." Clarke asked holiday travelers to remember some rules of…
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The two departments earned a total of three awards at a ceremony that highlights significant efforts in emergency medical service.
In late April, a guest of Greenfield Police Captain Dave Patrick went unresponsive in the basement of Patrick’s Greenfield home. The guest is alive thanks to the teamwork of the Greenfield police and fire departments. When he discovered his guest had become unresponsive and pulseless, Patrick immediately began CPR, and directed others at the home to continue CPR while he called for advanced cardiac life support help. He also called for a Greenfield police squad to bring an automated external defibrillator. Officers shocked the guest as soon as they arrived, minutes before Greenfield paramedics came to assume care of the patient. The patient was eventually transported to the hospital and survived. “The Greenfield Police and Fire Departments…
Monday, May 20, 2013
So it’s finally starting to warm up in Wisconsin, and suddenly there’s a nudity epidemic. This is our weekly weird crime roundup, OMG PD.
Patch is highlighting some of the more unusual crime news from throughout southeastern Wisconsin in our feature, "OMG PD." Can I get a booth by the window with the view of the naked guy? If two officers see a naked guy and then he disappears, was he ever naked? Ten million organized activities, and these kids play “Paranoia” naked. It’s never too late to operate a widespread shoplifting operation. Seems like everything is being recorded nowadays. Everything. _____________________ The above items are from local police reports and criminal complaints. In all incidents where an arrest occurred, a charge is merely an accusation and not evidence of guilt. The arrested person is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Brittany Barnstable, a Whitnell High School student, died as a result of her injuries Sunday.
Updated 10:17 a.m. Monday A 15-year-old Greenfield girl, who was riding her bicycle in New Berlin, has died as a result of injuries suffered when she was struck by an SUV on Saturday, according to Patch's media partners WISN 12. Brittany Barnstable, a Whitnall High School freshman, was riding her bike on the New Berlin Recreation Trail Saturday afternoon when she was hit by the SUV, sources confirm. Officials at Whitnall High School shared the news of the girl's death with the student body on Monday morning. They wore red shirts in her honor and after school they took a photo in her memory. Brittany played on the school's soccer team and was honored by her teammates and schoolmates before Monday's road match at South Milwaukee. The …
The 60-year-old Greenfield man stuffed a towel in his bathroom sink and left the water running, according to the Greenfield Police Department.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
The FBI compiles crime statistics annually and Patch has used that data to create a searchable database for Wisconsin information.
Every year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation uses data reported to it by nearly every law enforcement agency in the country to build a report on crime in the United States. Patch has taken the Wisconsin data and put it into a searchable database. Fill in the name of a community to see the number of reported property crimes in 2011, and click through to learn more about the types of offenses within each community.
The National Transportation Safety Board wants another lowering of the blood-alcohol standard for drunk driving. It stands at .08; the NTSB wants it at .05.
The National Transportation Safety Board wants the blood-alcohol threshold for drunk driving to be lowered to .05 from .08. Wisconsin followed the rest of the country from a .10 to .08 standard in 2003, under the threat of losing federal highway funds. The state had almost 29,000 DUI arrests in 2011, almost 10,000 fewer than in 2000 but still the sixth-highest per-capita amount in the country. And police regularly arrest people for driving with concentrations two and three times the current legal limit, and/or for multiple convictions. Will a lower limit make Wisconsin citizens safer in any way? Or is it simply an unnecessary government intrusion? Vote in our poll and comment below. Related polls:
Friday, May 17, 2013
But the witness who called in the incident also gave police a false name and was arrested for obstructing. And the victim refused to cooperate.
Police were told a man pointed a gun at two women and hit one of them repeatedly with it. But when police needed more information for their investigation, one woman gave police a false name and the other refused to cooperate. The man may have robbed an apartment in the 6400 block of West Norwich Avenue before 5:30 am. May 6, according to the Greenfield Police Department report. At least, that's what the caller told officers. The apartment renter told police a friend of hers, who had been staying with her, got a visitor at around 5:20 a.m. and her friend let the man, whom she described as her brother’s friend, into the apartment. After the apartment’s renter went back to bed, she told police she heard her friend scream repeatedly. The woman…
Thursday, May 16, 2013
The 60-year-old Greenfield man stuffed a towel in his bathroom sink and left the water running, according to the Greenfield Police Department.
A 60-year-old Greenfield man police was taken into custody by police and transported to the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex after they say he tried to flood his apartment. Police were called to the man’s apartment on West Cold Spring Road at 7:50 p.m. May 9, after the property manager told police the man stuffed a towel in his sink and left the water running, according to the Greenfield Police Department report. The report indicates Greenfield officers were aware of the man’s behavior; just one day earlier, an officer sent out a department memo stating the man’s doctor had contacted him and said the man was off his medication to treat schizophrenia, had become highly paranoid and could pose a threat to himself and others. The doctor…
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12:25 pm on Friday, May 24, 2013
Jason Patzfahl - "Maybe the sheriff and his deputies could concentrate on arresting drunks who stagger from bars to their cars" Unfortunately that's generally out of their jurisdiction. more ›