Police Flummoxed by Caller's Lax Attitude Toward Armed Robbery

Brookfield police remain puzzled by the behavior of a man who claimed he’d been the victim of a serious crime but won’t call them back to give a full account of the incident.

At 4:17 p.m. July 8, the man called the police non-emergency number, rather than 911, and left a message saying he had just been the victim of an attempted gunpoint robbery outside the Walgreens store at 16650 W. Greenfield Ave.

He said a man had pulled up to him in a car in the parking lot, pointed a gun at him and demanded his money. He refused, he said, and the would-be robber left. He gave no description of the robber or his car.

Police said he seemed serious and they had no reason to believe he was making a false report. And they, of course, take any report of an armed robber on the loose seriously.

But the complainant still has not answered or returned repeated calls from the Brookfield police to the number he left, as of latest report this week.

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