Police Report: Couple's Fight Turns Into Foot Race

An initial police report of a man running down Silver Spring Drive with a woman's keys turned out to have a longer back story than expected.

The 33-year-old Glendale woman told police her 36-year-old boyfriend, of Whitefish Bay, called her about 20 times at work with threatening messages on Aug. 27, so she decided to drive to his house in the 5500 block of North Kent Avenue that night to break up with him and get her house keys back. When he refused to let her into the house, she told police she kicked his door open, and after a scuffle, he ran northbound with her keys onto Silver Spring Drive at 11 p.m.

The man later told officers he threw her keys into a nearby Dumpster, but he refused to help officers locate the keys. As officers were about to seat him in the back of the squad, he offered to help locate the keys and officers found the keys in some bushes.

The woman was charged with disorderly conduct, and the man was charged with obstructing officers.

In other police news:

• A 23-year-old Shorewood man was arrested for drunken driving in the 4800 block of North Marlborough Drive at 1 a.m. Sept. 2. He refused to submit to a breath test, and was issued citations for operating while intoxicated and operating without registration.

• A GPS device and an iPod were reported stolen from a vehicle Sept. 2 in the 5700 block of North Santa Monica Boulevard. The resident believes the electronics were stolen Aug. 19.

• A 27-year-old Whitefish Bay man was discovered passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in the 5000 block of North Kent Avenue at 3 a.m. Wednesday. The man was taken into custody for drunken driving but refused a breathalyzer test.

• A driver passing through the 5900 block of North Santa Monica Boulevard reported five 14-year-old girls were standing in the roadway in front of oncoming vehicles then scattering at around 10 p.m. Sept. 3. The girls did the same thing when an officer arrived in an unmarked squad, and the officer warned the girls.