Crime & Safety

Sex Sting, ATM Skimming and Details From the Azana Spa Shooting

This week's regional crime roundup also includes a sexual assault case, restaurant break-in, and a sawed-off shotgun used in a gas station robbery.

Details continue to come out from the Azana Spa shooting, robberies and break-ins, a sex assault charge and school employee caught in a sex sting are some of the serious crime and police stories in southeastern Wisconsin reported by Patch this week.

All Availalble Squads Following the release of detailed reports from police who responded to the Azana Spa shooting, Patch editors put together stories and videos outlining the harrowing details for officers and the people trapped in the spa at the time of the shooting. There is also a to officers on the scene.

Restaurant Break-in Total in Oak Creek and stole money from the registers.

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Sex Assault A Milwaukee man is charged with sexually assaulting his wife and girlfriend, before one of them got away and called police from a Greendale home. 

Sex Sting Snags School Employee A Whitnall School District contractor was picked up in a child sex sting. The food services director—who is no longer working with the district—was caught with the Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation agents showed up instead of the teen the agent had portrayed online.

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Shotgun Robbery A sawed-off shotgun was the weapon of choice, police said, in a Waukesha gas station robbery.

ATM Skimmer People using an ATM machine in Waukesha found their card information and PINs didn't stay private. Someone with connections to a global theft ring had put skimmers on a machine in the city, causing trouble for customers.


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