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Article: BROOKFIELD SQUARE Well, why not steal a few catnaps? Officers find their suspect fast asleep in Sears store
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 29, 1996
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More than 20 law enforcement officers descended on the Sears store
at Brookfield Square mall early Sunday to search for a burglar who
apparently broke in shortly before midnight.
They found him, 45 minutes later, asleep on a bed in the store's
second-floor furniture department, said Brookfield police Sgt. Joseph
Mozina.
Police also found a pile of electronic items telephones, cassette
recorders and portable stereos in the Sears Automotive Center lot
that they believe the suspect, a 39-year-old Milwaukee man, was
trying to steal. He also tried to break into two cars in the lot,
police said.
Judging from the large pile of items found in the parking area,
the man had made several ...