Police Report: Stolen Liquor, Drunk Driving

A man suspected of stealing liquor from CVS Pharmacy is now facing criminal charges, due to three prior retail theft offenses in the last five years.

A CVS employee reported the theft to Whitefish Bay police at 6:16 p.m. April 22 after seeing the man – later identified as Bobby Wilson, 49, of Glendale – place two liquor bottles down his shirt and walk out of the store. The liquor was valued at $41.98, according to a criminal complaint. 

Whitefish Bay police caught the man, but his two female friends got away. One of the females came in to the police station to claim her vehicle the next day – at which point she was cited for retail theft, according to a Whitefish Bay police report. 

If convicted, Wilson faces a maximum nine months in prison and $10,000 in fines. His prison sentence could also be increased a maximum of two years, due to the previous misdemeanor offenses.

In other Whitefish Bay police news:

• A man was cited for retail theft after walking out of Sendik's with $10 in batteries and $11 in conditioner at 4:03 p.m. April 25.

• A woman's blood alcohol content was more than double the legal limit when she was pulled over for drunken driving in the 900 block of E. Circle Drive at 1:09 a.m. April 24. The officer noticed her vehicle cross the center line in the 5000 block of Lake Drive, and police later concluded her BAC was 0.18. She was cited for operating while intoxicated, deviating from a designated lane and failure to provide insurance.

• A man was arrested for drunken driving last week after failing to stop at a flashing red light at Hampton Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard at 2:10 a.m. on May 1. He refused to submit to a chemical test of his breath.

• Two unlocked vehicles were entered in the 5500 block of Bay Ridge Avenue sometime between 11 p.m. April 29 and 6:30 a.m. April 30. Change was taken from the vehicles.

• No illegal narcotics were found in a K9 search of Whitefish Bay High School on April 26. The search was conducted by Whitefish Bay police with assistance from police departments in Brown Deer, Glendale and Cedarburg.