Crime & Safety

Crime Corner: Return of Stolen Tools Leads to Arrest

Reports from Fox Point and Bayside police departments.

A man who toted off a contractor's tool-filled "job box," saying he thought it was garbage, was arrested for theft when he was contacted by police and returned with the box to Cardinal Stritch University, Fox Point police said. 

Police were called to the university Jan. 12, when a contractor reported his tools and tool box missing from the loading dock area. Police met with the head of Stritch security, who said the only person who entered the loading area, besides the victim, was an ACE Carbonic Gas Corp. employee who delivered gas canisters.

The ACE employee later returned to the school with the box and told police he had believed it was garbage, and removed it. He said he planned to use it for his own personal use. The man said he did not look inside the box, and it felt empty when he carried it to his truck. 

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In other Fox Point and Bayside police news:

  • Two cars collided at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Calumet Road Jan. 18. As one car approached the intersection, the driver of the other car saw the first and tried to brake. A travel mug had rolled under the brake pedal, so the driver could not stop. Fox Point police say both vehicles were gone from scene before officers arrived.
  • A vehicle landed in a ditch in the 700 block of West Laramie Lane Jan. 19.
  • Another vehicle found its way into a ditch Jan. 22, in the 9400 block of North Port Washington Road.
  • Throughout last week, Bayside police responded to six traffic accidents that later were turned over to the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department. The accidents occurred either on I-43, or at I-43 and Brown Deer Road or at I-43 and Port Washington Road. 

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