Thursday, March 28, 2013
A 78-year-old woman says her .38 revolver went missing when it went through a Brookfield car wash.
A 78-year-old Brookfield woman says her gun disappeared from her car while it went through a car wash, reported Patch Media partner WISN 12. The woman claims that the .38 revolver was in the console when she took her car to Full Service Car Wash, located at 19050 W. Bluemound Rd., on March 20. An employee drove the car through the wash. When she received her car back she immediately noticed the gun missing and informed management. She also said the gun was fully loaded. Police investigated the location and questioned employees. Surveillance video was checked and nothing suspicious was seen. Police also say there was no indication of movement in the console. The woman says she got a gun because she's often alone with her grandchildren …
Monday, November 5, 2012
Suspect accused of taking part in a drive-by shooting in Milwaukee failed to show up for the start of his trial Monday, prompting a judge to rescind his bail and issue a warrant for his arrest.
An arrest warrant was issued Monday for a Brookfield man who failed to appear in court Monday for his planned trial on charges alleging he drove a vehicle involved in a Milwaukee drive-by shooting. Rahul K. Singh, 20, didn't show up Monday to Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge J.D. Watts' courtroom for the start of his trial. A criminal complaint alleges Singh was party to the crime of felony discharging a firearm into a building. Ryan Baltz, 22, of Wauwatosa, was sentenced in October to 18 months in prison for his role in shooting up a Milwaukee home hours after getting ejected from a party there. Singh, accused of driving the vehicle from which Baltz fired shots had been free on $3,000 bond while awaiting trial. But the judge on …
Monday, October 15, 2012
Ryan Baltz, 22, of Wauwatosa, will serve prison time for his role in shooting up a home after getting kicked out of a party in May. The accused getaway driver, Rahul Singh, 20, of Brookfield, is awaiting trial on his charges.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Jim Price
-
Monday, October 15, 2012
A Wauwatosa man who shot up a Milwaukee house in May after he was kicked out a party, will spend the next 18 months in prison. Ryan L. Baltz, 22, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and 36 months extended supervision Tuesday by Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge J.D. Watts. Baltz could have been sentenced up to 12½ years in prison, but his charges were amended in August as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. The accused getaway driver in the shooting, Rahul Singh, 20, of Brookfield, is awaiting trial on his charge of endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon from a vehicle. His next court appearance is Oct. 26. On May 13, Milwaukee police officers were called to a home in the 4800 block of North 70th Street by a woman living …
Thursday, October 11, 2012
When a woman tries to sneak away from a Brookfield man to spend time with another man, the two men confront each other and one displays a handgun, charges allege.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Joe Petrie
-
Thursday, October 11, 2012
A confrontation between two men over a woman leads to charges against both men — and not the woman. A Brookfield man secretly followed a woman who lives with him, catching her meeting up with a Hartland man who displayed a handgun when the Brookfield man intervened, according to a criminal complaint. William E. Ahrens, 51, of Brookfield was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Tuesday with misdemeanor disorderly conduct, and Thomas M. Reifschlager, 57, of Hartland, was charged with misdemeanor carrying a concealed weapon. If convicted, Ahrens faces up to 90 days in jail and $1,000 in fines, while Reifschlager faces up to nine months in jail and $10,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: On Aug. 31, a woman living with …
43.093504
-88.340407
400 Hartwood Ln, Hartland, WI
/articles/man-allegedly-pulls-gun-on-brookfield-man-over-a-woman
/locations/7992163
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Charges allege the man pointed a gun at his fiancee and himself during an argument Sunday that became physical.
A Brookfield man allegedly pointed a gun at his fiancée and his own head during an altercation Sunday. Patrick J. Crawford, 25, was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Tuesday with second degree reckless endangerment of safety, battery domestic abuse, disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property. If convicted, he faces nearly 12 years in prison and $46,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: On Monday, the victim went to the Brookfield Police Department and told officers she had gotten into an argument with her soon-to-be ex-fiancée Sunday inside their home in the 19000 block of Lothmoor Drive. During the argument Crawford slammed her into the wooden floor, then climbed onto her chest on his knees, she said. He …
43.067726
-88.148305
19000 Lothmoor Drive Upper, Brookfield, WI
/articles/man-charged-with-pointing-gun-at-fiancee
/locations/7678406
Monday, July 25, 2011
Wisconsin joins 48 other states by allowing concealed carry of weapons come November, a law some believe is just the first move closer to granting Second Amendment rights.
Effective in November, Wisconsin will become the 49th state to allow the concealed carry of handguns. The issue of concealed carry has a number of policy arguments on both sides, as well as statistics that have been used both for and against allowing concealed carry. However, despite the policy arguments, the new law only begins to bring Wisconsin in line with citizens' rights under the Second Amendment to the Constitution. For starters, everyone recognizes that firearms are both dangerous and sometimes necessary. The balance has been difficult to establish throughout our history. On the one hand, people carrying firearms can very easily misuse them against others, with severe and irreparable consequences. On the other hand, everyone in …
Jaime Lannister
7:34 pm on Thursday, March 28, 2013
She's probably senile and it will be found in the parking lot at her grandchildrens elementary school or something... I think I've seen her before, that's Oprah Winfrey's mom again isn't it... more ›