Crime & Safety

Police Report: Scary Coyote Decoys; 5 Arrested Following Fight

Waukesha Police Department calls from April 29 and April 30

The intent was to scare away the geese but, instead, children were scared by fake dogs that were tied to the tree at Minooka Park.

Police were called to the park at 1:56 p.m. Friday about the fake dog, which were in reality coyote decoys to keep the geese away from the park.

“Apparently they work good,” the Waukesha Police Department call log states.

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In other Waukesha Police Department calls:

  • A person contacted police at 1:16 p.m. Friday at Frame Park to report she could not find her 3-year-old sister. Police located the girl near the caller’s vehicle and reunited the pair.
  • A person was warned for drinking open intoxicants at 2:13 p.m. Friday in the 900 block of North Barstow Street.
  • Two girls who found a notebook with suicidal messages turned the notebook over t to police at 5:54 p.m. Friday. The girls found the notebook on a playground in the 100 block of East Garfield Avenue.
  • A man, who had been threatening to have a woman arrested for a $14,000 loan he claimed the woman owed, hung up the phone on police after using inappropriate language at 7:40 p.m. Friday. The woman told police she thought the man’s phone calls were suspicious as she had not taken out a loan.
  • A person was arrested after a disturbance was reported at 10:17 p.m. Friday in the 1100 block of Linden Street.
  • Five people were arrested after a fight involving eight people was reported at 2:16 a.m. Saturday in the 300 block of Williams Street. Police requested an ambulance for a 25-year-old man who had a laceration above his eye.
  • A person was arrested after a domestic disturbance was reported at 3:11 a.m. Saturday in the 100 block of Cecilia Court.

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