Friday, December 23, 2011
Three months after a BMW was stolen from a Caledonia lot, a State Patrol trooper caught a woman driving it in Brookfield, charges allege.
A woman is facing charges after she was caught driving a BMW in Brookfield that had been stolen from a Caledonia auto broker. Lawanda L. Silas Gill, 20, of Milwaukee, was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Tuesday with one count of operating a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent. If convicted, she faces up to 3 ½ years in prison and $10,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: On June 4, Silas Gill was pulled over on I-94 near 124th Street in Brookfield by a State Patrol trooper who noticed the license plate on the BMW wasn’t registered to the vehicle. Silas Gill told the trooper she had borrowed the car from her aunt, but was unable to give names or phone numbers to someone who could verify the story. After further …
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Brookfield police catch woman driving a stolen car — her former car that a payday lender had repossessed, a charge alleges.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Joe Petrie
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
A woman was driving a car through Brookfield that she stole from the Milwaukee Auto Auction after it had been repossessed by a payday loan store. Tanisha R. Spivey, 28, of Milwaukee, was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Tuesday with one count of operating a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent. If convicted, she faces up to 3 ½ years in prison and $10,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: A Brookfield officer pulled over a car driven by Spivey May 24 near 124th Street and North Avenue in Brookfield after the VIN of the car showed it was reported stolen by the Milwaukee Police Department. Spivey denied it had been stolen and told the officer she had used it as collateral to get a loan from a Pay Day Loan Store …
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Teenager's infractions quickly escalated from misdemeanors to felonies.
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- Jim Price
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
In the space of just a week, a 16-year-old Brookfield runaway's spree of crime in a Wauwatosa neighborhood took him from entering unlocked cars to burglary to auto theft, according to police reports. He was arrested Wednesday in Milwaukee, sleeping in a stolen minivan. Beginning Oct. 19, numerous reports of cars being entered and rifled began coming in from an area of just a few blocks in Tosa's northernmost neighborhood, west of Madison Park. In two instances on successive nights, Oct. 21 and 22, residents spotted the unknown youth rummaging through their cars and chased him off. Then, once over the weekend and again on Tuesday, residents reported that their garages had been forcibly broken into – in one case, it was an attached garage …
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Suspect went into car behind Town of Brookfield business to smoke drugs because it was left unlocked.
A Brookfield man is facing charges after he allegedly smoked hashish and fell asleep in a stolen car that had been left unlocked in a Town of Brookfield parking lot. Derek D. Knight, 20, was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Tuesday with one count of receiving stolen property and one count of disorderly conduct. According to the criminal complaint, at 12:10 p.m. Monday officers were called to a parking lot behind a business in the 17800 block of W. Blue Mound Road after someone reported a suspicious vehicle with a man sitting inside. While checking the license plates of the vehicle, officers also discovered the vehicle had been reported stolen from the Brookfield Highway Department parking lot. After making contact with Knight, the…
Tuco
10:46 am on Saturday, December 24, 2011
LOL! And she probably thought she would not be caught! more ›