Police Report: Parking Lot Flasher; Letters from Prison; Nigerian Fraud

The following information was supplied by the Waukesha Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

Indecent Exposure Shocks Woman, Young Daughter

A woman and her 5-year-old daughter saw way more than they wanted to during a shopping trip at 1:05 p.m. Wednesday.

A man fondled and exposed himself to the woman and her daughter, before leaving the parking lot. The man was described as being in his 20s with black hair in a shaggy bowl cut.

Police were reviewing video footage and were tracking the suspect’s license plate number.

Letters from Prison

An elderly woman was worried that an inmate in Racine had contacted her about art and the inmate was going to be released from jail.

The woman contacted police at 12:47 p.m. Wednesday to report suspicious letters from the jail inmate. He read an article in the newspaper about her art, she said, and he contacted her about his wanting to explore an art path. The woman was concerned because the man was a registered sex offender who was going to be released from jail on Friday.

Police reviewed the letter, which was written in May, and noted the man was responding to the article about the woman and seemed to relate to the woman’s story of being abused as the man claimed he was.

Fraud from Nigeria

A woman living in the 300 block of Sentinel may be out between $20,000 and $30,000 in a fraud case.

A therapist working with the woman contacted police at 10:48 a.m. Wednesday to report the woman possibly was a fraud victim involving a suspect in Nigeria.

In other Waukesha Police Department calls:

• A car hit a stop sign at 6:05 a.m. Monday at Arcadian and Harding avenues.
• A car hit a pole at 8:27 a.m. Monday in the 2400 block of East Moreland Boulevard.
• A vehicle hit a landscape bush at 8:28 a.m. Monday at North University Drive and Chancery Lane.
• A theft was reported at 9:28 a.m. Monday in the 1900 block of South Grand Avenue.
• A juvenile was cited for truancy at 11:26 a.m. Monday at Waukesha South High School.
• A woman had the contents from her purse stolen at 11:27 a.m. Monday in the 600 block of West College Avenue.
• Four handguns that were donated to Goodwill, 1400 Nike Drive, were turned over to police at 12:16 p.m. Monday.
• A juvenile in the 200 block of Tenny Avenue reported his father was holding him hostage at 12:19 p.m. Monday. Police responded and learned the juvenile was upset that his father had taken away his video games, which was his “whole world.”
• A person was arrested after it was reported credit cards were stolen at 12:47 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of Wilson Avenue.
• An arrest was made after a narcotics violation was reported at 9:54 p.m. Monday.
• A woman reported her neighbor had posted harassing comments about her on Facebook and then removed the comments at 11:42 p.m. Monday in the 1500 block of David Lane. Police gave the woman information about a temporary restraining order and left a message for the man to stop contacting the woman.
• ­A person was arrested on suspicion of intoxicated driving at 12:23 a.m. Tuesday during a traffic stop at White Rock Avenue and East Main Street.
• A person put a candy bar in a gas tank at 7:24 a.m. Tuesday in the 1800 block of Dolphin Drive.
• A plow hit a railroad box at 8:50 a.m. Tuesday at Progress and South West avenues.
• A vehicle caught on fire at 11:55 a.m. Tuesday at Colton Street and Beechwood avenue.
• A Kindle, personal items and medication were stolen during a burglary at 12:12 p.m. Tuesday in the 800 block of Eales Avenue.
• A woman in the 200 block of South James Street reported at 12:17 p.m. Tuesday that she went to do her taxes and someone else had already filed taxes using her social security number.
• A person arrested on a warrant at 4:27 p.m. Tuesday in the 400 block of West Sunset Drive.
• A person was arrested after it was reported she was in an apartment where she didn’t belong at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 800 block of North East Avenue.
• A woman who had blood on her face and hands was taken to the hospital after it was reported she was battered at 6:50 p.m. Tuesday in the 100 block of Cambridge Avenue. A man was arrested.
• A person was cited for loud noise at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday in the 1400 block of South West Avenue.
• A vehicle hit a concrete barricade at 6:44 a.m. Wednesday at Progress and South West avenues.
• A person reportedly “bumped” a boy with a truck at 7:24 a.m. Wednesday at Waukesha North High School. No injuries were reported.
• A vehicle hit a tree at 7:51 a.m. Wednesday at Jills Drive and East Roberta Avenue.
• A hit-and-run accident was reported at 11:57 a.m. Wednesday in the 300 block of East Broadway.
• A person was arrested after a theft by employee incident was reported at 12:07 p.m. Wednesday in the 1800 block of Meadow Lane.
• A juvenile was arrested at 12:14 p.m. Wednesday at Waukesha South High School.
• A person wanted to turn himself in at 1:25 p.m. Wednesday in the 400 block of North Barstow Street for “not paying my bills and not taking my medication.” Police advised him that he couldn’t go to jail for the infractions and they told him to contact his case worker.
• A juvenile trouble incident was reported at 2:01 p.m. Wednesday at Waukesha West High School.
• A person reported suspicion footprints in the snow in her backyard at 4:14 p.m. Wednesday in the 500 block of Century Oak Drive.
• A theft of prescription medication was reported at 4:31 p.m. Wednesday in the 1500 block of Mohawk Lane.
• A theft of a 2011 black Honda CRV was reported at 4:40 p.m. Wednesday in te 1600 block of East Moreland Boulevard.
• A young girl who was walking in the median at 4:57 p.m. Wednesday at East Broadway and Highway 164 was taken home by police.
• Cigarettes were stolen from a vehicle at 5:02 p.m. Wednesday in the 1400 block of Cottonwood Drive.
• About $30 in change was stolen from a vehicle at 5:39 p.m. Wednesday in the 1400 block of Cottonwood Drive.
• A woman reported that  a person in a black compact car yelled at her daughter “I am going to kill you” while her daughter was walking home from middle school at 6:03 p.m. Wednesday in the 1200 block of Phoenix Drive.
• A person was arrested on suspicion of intoxicated driving at 7:51 p.m. Wednesday at White Rock and Eales avenues.
• Two 18-year-olds at UW-Waukesha were “engaging in intimate behavior” in a parked car with steamy windows at 8:24 p.m. Wednesday. They were advised about loitering.
• A person in the 1100 block of Beechwood Avenue reported possible graffiti at 8:55 p.m. Wednesday. Police noted that someone had spray painted a birthday message in the snow.
• A person reported that the neighbors were driving on the person’s lawn and chaining their dogs to her fence at 9:57 p.m. Wednesday in the 800 block of Oakland Avenue.
• A person was arrested at 12:13 a.m. Thursday at Madison Street and South Moreland Boulevard after it was reported the person was running away from police.