Tosa, Greenfield Police Spend Chaotic Night Corraling Armed Robbery Suspects
But high-risk effort bears little fruit when the "crime" turns out to be questionable, drug-related interaction.
Large forces of Greenfield and Wauwatosa police officers, and even some from Milwaukee, spent hours in a high-risk situation last Wednesday night apprehending two armed robbery suspects – and in the end, they were able to do no more than issue a few municipal citations. Wild and woolly events kept some officers busy from before 10 p.m. Wednesday until almost dawn Thursday. They involved a tense traffic stop with a high expectation of gunplay, a foot chase and mass search with a police tracking dog, and a suspect who plunged into an icy river in his near escape. Improbably, all that didn't amount to much. For police, it began at 9:49 p.m. when a Greenfield patrol officer noticed a car driving on two flat tires on West Coldspring Road. He …
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