Waukesha police report: June 2, 2016 issue

Scott Ash
Published on: 5/27/2016

1A city employee found a marijuana pipe on the side of the road around 9:13 a.m. May 20 near West Moreland Boulevard and Airport Road. Police recovered the pipe and destroyed it.

2A woman told police a man hit her near West Laflin and South Grand avenues around 1:09 p.m. May 20. The woman declined medical treatment and said the man took her purse, wallet and phone. A police report did not indicate whether officers found the suspect.

3An anonymous caller reported a man was possibly trying to break into a car around 1:41 p.m. May 20 in the municipal parking lot at 720 Clinton Street. The caller told police the man was using a coat hanger or a piece of wire to try to get into the car and wasn't sure if the vehicle belonged to the man.

4A caller told police they thought they saw kids using drugs while they were sitting up in some trees around 4:33 p.m. May 20 at Horeb Spring Park, 400 Spring St.

5An apparently intoxicated woman barged into a home in the 400 block of Barney Street around 7:06 p.m. May 20 looking for someone named 'Danny Santos.' According to a police report, the homeowners did not know the person the woman was talking about and shortly after walking into the home the woman and a man she was with — who had urinated outside — left. Police later discovered the Santos family had moved away from the area years ago.

6An anonymous caller told police they spotted a group of children, possibly teenagers, on the roof of Lowell Elementary School, 140 N. Grandview Blvd., around 1:03 a.m. May 21. The caller said they saw three males on the backside of the roof near the school's playground.

7A man reportedly drove through a garage at a home in the 500 block of Fairview Avenue and nearly damaged a resident's car there around 10:49 a.m. May 21. According to an incident report, the driver then plowed through a fence line and ended up at a home in the 800 block of Motor Avenue. The report did not indicate whether police found the driver.

8A woman told police a man who claimed to be a detective ordered her to get into his car around 1:32 p.m. May 21 at an apartment complex in the 1000 block of Delafield Street. The woman said in a police report that after she refused the man followed her to her apartment and knocked on her door.

9A woman walked onto a bus with an open intoxicant around 5:28 p.m. May 21 at a stop near West Main Street and North East Avenue. According to a police report, she got upset with the driver and needed to be restrained by officers when they arrived.

10Two men got in a fight at the Salty Toad, 921 Friedman Drive, around 12:06 a.m. May 22 that spilled into the alley outside the bar. Police met one man there who was bleeding from his nose after being punched, but he refused medical treatment. The man could not identify the person who punched him and told officers he did not want to make a formal complaint.

11An apparently intoxicated man damaged the railing at an apartment and bent the hinges on a tenant's door possibly while looking for a nearby bar early in the morning May 22 in the 300 block of West Main Street. A police report said the tenant, a woman, thought the man might have mistaken her apartment for the nearby Mainstream Bar and Grill.

12Police found a mentally ill woman doubled over near the entrance to the Westbrook Shopping Center, 2120 E. Moreland Blvd., around 12:09 p.m. May 22. The woman told officers she was fine but was off her medication. She was rushed to the hospital, a police report said.

13Officers had to break up a fight between 15 people around 12:14 p.m. May 22 at Country Springs, 2810 Golf Road. According to an incident report, some guests at the hotel got into a disagreement with management over their behavior in the water park and were asked to leave.

14A homeless women refused to leave Waukesha Memorial Hospital, 725 American Way, after she was discharged around 1:13 a.m. May 23. Hospital security staff asked police to help them escort the woman who was then provided with information about homeless shelters in the area.

15A Waukesha woman was rushed to the hospital by her boyfriend around 7:42 a.m. May 23 after she overdosed on drugs. According to a police report, the woman said she overdosed so she could sleep, not in an attempted suicide. The woman's family told police she has a history of drug abuse.

16A teacher at at Les Paul Middle School Central Campus, 325 Carroll St., reported one of his students, a 14-year-old boy, for truancy around 8:58 a.m. May 23. The student was apparently laying down in front of the Waukesha Public Library, which is across the street from the school. Police spoke to the boy and he returned to class.

17An intoxicated man was hanging on a pole around 12:53 p.m. May 23 in the 700 block of Maple Avenue. Officers found the man there and escorted him home without incident.

18A woman was reportedly robbed at knife point around 3:10 p.m. May 23 while her vehicle was stopped at a stop sign near Horeb Spring Park, 400 Spring St. The woman told police a man approached her car there and asked for directions then pulled out a knife and demanded money from her. She did not see which way the man went after robbing her, a police report said.

19A manager at Buffalo Wild Wings, 1180 W. Sunset Drive, told police he had to call a taxi to take an intoxicated patron home around 5:24 p.m. May 23. The man apparently passed out inside the restaurant and the manger was concerned the man would try to drive home when he woke up. The man told police when they arrived that he had no problem taking a cab.

20A resident at an apartment in the 200 block of South West Avenue told police a neighbor had threatened her and her husband around 8:31 p.m. May 23 after he supposedly discovered the couple had stolen beer that belonged to him out of a shared fridge. Police advised the woman on her options moving forward.

21An argument May 24 over rap music ended with one man in the hospital. Police responded to an apartment complex in the 700 block of East St. Paul Avenue around 2 p.m. that day after a resident there said another tenant punched him after the first man asked his neighbor to turn the volume down the rap music he was playing. The victim was taken to the hospital for treatment, a police report said. The report did not indicate whether the other man would be criminally charged, and he was not home when police arrived.