CRIME & SAFETY

BROOKFIED, Wis. - Brookfield police are looking for the public's help to identify and locate a man who they say stole a baby monitor and LEGO sets from Kohl's on 124th Street. The crime happened around 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 11. Officials say the suspect entered Kohl's and removed a theft detection device from a baby monitor. The suspect then collected that baby monitor and some LEGO block sets. He left without paying for the items.

WAUKESHA, Wis. - A Waukesha man who prosecutors said was armed with a rifle a block from Waukesha North High School in April 2023 has been sentenced to one year in prison. Court records show 19-year-old Asahel Ali reached a plea deal in the case on Wednesday. In addition to prison time, he was sentenced to two years of extended supervision. He was 17 years old at the time of the incident.

MILWAUKEE — Surveillance video shows the moment an off-duty Milwaukee police officer got into a shootout with someone on the city's south side. Investigators do not think bullets hit anyone during the shooting early Tuesday morning near 37th Street and Branting Lane, just south of American Family Field. According...

MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee man accused of shooting and killing a man and setting a car on fire with the body inside is set to make his initial court appearance this week. The accused is 20-year-old Daeshaun J. Graves. He faces the following criminal counts:. First-degree reckless homicide, use of...

A 14-year-old was shot and killed Thursday afternoon in Milwaukee, authorities say. The teenager received the fatal injuries at about 3:15 p.m. on the 1400 block of North 39th Street, the Milwaukee Police Department said in a media release. The victim was taken to a hospital, before dying. Police are continuing to investigate the...

Family members remember 19-year-old Samantha Recore as a sweet and caring young woman. Her mother called her sudden death "senseless."

MILWAUKEE - Two of four Milwaukee men accused in a pair of mail carrier robberies were sentenced on Monday, Aug. 12. Christian Lara-Maldonado was sentenced to seven years in prison and eight years of extended supervision on two counts of armed robbery. Jesse Hernandez was sentenced to six years in...

WEST ALLIS, Wis. - A fight between a couple leads to a duplex fire in West Allis. Now, a woman is in custody after police say she started a fire in her own home with her boyfriend inside. West Allis police say a 19-year-old woman was arrested for several crimes,...

MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee police arrested four people after a pursuit and crash on Monday, Aug. 12. Drugs and multiple guns were recovered. It started near 17th and Greenfield around 9:25 p.m. Officers initially tried to stop the vehicle for a registration violation, but the driver took off. The pursuit ended...

MILWAUKEE (CBS58) - A Milwaukee man is warning others to be vigilant of their surroundings after being shot at during an attempted carjacking. Evan Muschinske was going through the intersection of 92nd and Center early Saturday morning around 2:30 a.m. when Muschinske noticed five kids approaching his vehicle. Muschinske says he started to drive away quickly and that’s when he heard the gunshots.

A police chase ended in a crash and the arrest of two people, including a teenager that Milwaukee Police believe is responsible for a robbery at a hospital parking garage.

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The victim of an attack on Milwaukee's east side last month spoke to reporters for the first time on Wednesday. Thirty-five-year-old Matt Carlin had a fractured jaw after 21-year-old Cole Slotke ripped off his shirt and punched him in the face around 9:30 p.m. on July 27. The attack was recorded on surveillance video outside Carlin's home near E. Brady Street and N. Arlington Place.

MILWAUKEE - UPDATE: Police recovered the stolen food truck on Wednesday night, Aug. 14. Someone spotted the truck in an alley on Milwaukee's north side after seeing the story on FOX6 News and called police. The owner tells FOX6 that besides some missing aprons and visors, everything was intact. The...

MILWAUKEE — A suspect in D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death has posted bond, according to CCAP. Suspect Devin Johnson-Carson posted his $5,000 cash bond on Monday and is no longer being held in the Milwaukee County Jail. Johnson-Carson is one of four men charged with the murder of Mitchell,...

In Milwaukee, a tragic event has left a family devastated and demanding justice after a woman was shot and killed in her own yard. The incident occurred near 28th and Concordia on August 3, 2024, when Clarissla Bates, a resident who had been actively involved in addressing crime in her neighborhood, was shot at point-blank range. Despite her family identifying the suspect, no charges have been filed, leaving them questioning the actions of the authorities.

MILWAUKEE - It's been about 45 days since a tragic incident outside the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Milwaukee. What started as one man's erratic behavior escalated into a violent struggle and ended in the death of 43-year-old D'Vontaye Mitchell. In this episode of Open Record, FOX6 Investigator Bryan Polcyn invites FOX6 reporter Bria Jones on to talk about the disturbance, the hotel's response, the protests and civil outcry, and the criminal case against four men now charged with felony murder.

Body cameras have become standard equipment for most police departments and there are some parameters for how they are to be used. But those parameters vary widely. In Wisconsin, the Legislature passed a law that regulates the use of body cameras. It basically says every police department should have policies in place for the use of body cameras. There are rules on how long the video footage is to be retained, and there are restrictions about releasing footage that shows minors or victims of violent crime. But there don’t seem to be rules that stipulate that police body camera footage is public record. It is generally assumed that body cam video is covered by the state’s open records laws, and therefore are presumed public record, with limited exception. But in Brookfield, a young teen was arrested, accused of starting a fire on railroad tracks then running from police. The body camera footage would show he wasn’t guilty of starting the fire, and didn’t know the person telling him to stop was an officer, because the officer didn’t identify himself. The boy’s mother was denied the ability to see the officer’s body cam footage, with the city saying it doesn’t release footage involving juveniles. He ended up pleading guilty to something he didn’t do. Our lawmakers, whenever they get back to work in Madison, should tighten the wording of the laws regulating body cameras so that each police department in Wisconsin doesn’t have its own rules, and so an innocent teen doesn’t have to plead guilty even though recorded footage would have exonerated him.

A Shawano police officer was recognized Aug. 14 for his lifesaving efforts at Summerfest a couple of months ago in Milwaukee. Mequon Frechette was off duty on June 26 when he attended a Tyler Childers concert with his family. According to Shawano Police Chief Bradley Rabideau, someone three rows ahead of Frechette called out for someone to call 911 after a man fell and lost consciousness, and the officer sprang into action.

MILWAUKEE (CBS58) -- The Milwaukee Fire Department is investigating a late night that took place on August 15 near 86th and Capitol around 11:20 p.m. MFD was on scene within two minutes of being dispatched to find a fire on the 1st floor of a two-story duplex. The fire was...