Crime & Safety

Police Report: Dancing in the Street, Waving an Ax

The latest reports from the Whitefish Bay Police Department.

There was no scheduled street dance on Silver Spring Drive last week, but that didn't stop the one-man dance party in the street Wednesday afternoon.

The driver of a Cadillac Escalade stopped his car in the middle of Silver Spring Drive, got out of the car, took a drink out of two liquor bottles, did a dance and then drove away, according to a witness.

Police were notified of the incident near Silver Spring Drive and Marlborough Drive at 3:38 p.m., but they were unable to locate the vehicle.

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In other police news:

  • Employees at called the police at about noon Wednesday, when a 43-year-old Milwaukee woman yelled at a teller for allowing her boyfriend to deposit a check made payable to her into his account. The incident occurred in Milwaukee, so she was advised to file complaint with the Milwaukee Police Department.
  • Two separate people reported a man was shaking an ax at passing vehicles in the area of East Birch Avenue and North Kent Avenue Thursday afternoon. The 39-year-old Whitefish Bay man suspected to be involved denied shaking an ax at vehicles but said there was an ax in the house. He stated he felt threatened by people from a mortgage company. Neither complainant wanted to follow through with a disorderly conduct complaint, so the man was let off with a warning.
  • A 20-year-old West Allis man was arrested for drunken driving after he was pulled over on the on-ramp from West Hampton Road to southbound Interstate 43 at 12:22 a.m. Friday. He was also cited for possession of marijuana, operating without a valid license and operating without insurance.
  • A 53-year-old Milwaukee man was pulled over on the ramp just over an hour later. He was cited for operating while intoxicated, operating with suspended registration and operating without insurance.
  • A 17-year-old Whitefish Bay boy had just dropped off a friend around 130 W. Fairmount Ave. when a drunken man jumped into the front passenger seat of his car at 12:18 a.m. Saturday. The boy told the police the man was looking for his granddaughter. The boy drove the man around and eventually dropped him off at

    When police checked in on the 51-year-old California man at the bar, he admitted leaving his 5-year-old granddaughter home alone. When police went to the house, the girl's mother, a 28-year-old Whitefish Bay woman, arrived and assumed care for her daughter, as well as her intoxicated father.

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