Suburban Crime Roundup: Driver Had .38 Blood-Alcohol Level

Here are some of Patch's top crime- and police-related stories from throughout the Milwaukee area in the last week. Click on a link to see the all the details.

Nearly 5 times legal limit: A Milwaukee woman was charged last week with her second OWI following a June incident in Wauwatosa. The State Crime Lab’s blood test showed her blood-alcohol level to be .38, almost five times the legal limit for intoxication.

Guilty plea in homicide case: A Greenfield man entered a guilty plea Monday in the stabbing death of the mother of the couple’s two children. The first-degree reckless homicide charge carries a maximum 40-year sentence.

Armed robbery at Walgreens: A man showed a handgun while robbing a Walgreens drug store in Waukesha last Sunday. He stole 20 oxycontin pills and fled.

Threats result in felony charges: A Shorewood woman stands accused of pointing a loaded gun at her former fiancée and threatening to kill them both in a domestic incident last week.

Death deemed suspicious: A 49-year-old woman was found dead at a hotel in Yorkville in Racine County last weekend, and investigators called the death suspicious. There was no obvious cause of death at the scene.

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The above items are from reports from local police departments and criminal complaints. In all incidents where an arrest occurred, a charge is merely an accusation and not evidence of guilt. The arrested person is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.