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Wauwatosa Police Department

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Baby Formula a Hot Retail Theft Item

Shoplifters all around Milwaukee - and the country - are pushing the limits to get their hands on expensive canisters that are often being resold by other business owners.

Thefts of baby formula have been occurring, well, as long as baby formula has been sold in stores. But a rash of recent thefts in the Milwaukee area and even across the country, appear to have escalated in terms of the boldness and brazenness — or maybe desperation — of the offenders. The most recent large-scale bust happened in April when police say Ebony Sims, 26, and Johnetta Webb, 23, both from Milwaukee, loaded 69 cans of formula into plastic totes they had grabbed off the shelves at Walmart in Greenfield and waltzed out of the store. Two days later, the same couple tried again, this time planning a “push out” of about 60 cans before ditching the cans when alerted by an accomplice that police were outside waiting for them. “I think …

Keith Anderson

2:50 pm on Sunday, May 5, 2013

Those poor criminals. They (Democrats) need to give out more welfare. We obviously aren't giving them enough because after they pay the cable bill, the I phone bill, pay for their tattoos and high speed internet service and rims for their cars and drug habit, there just isn't enough money left over. No one should be forced to resort to stealing! Give them more Obama!!! We need to start paying …   more ›

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Ben Sebena Waives Preliminary Hearing on Charge of Killing Wife

Menomonee Falls man accused of gunning down his 30-year-old wife, Jennifer Sebena, while she was working as a Wauwatosa police officer.

Friday, December 28, 2012

Jennifer Sebena Remembered for Caring Nature, Loving Spirit

Slain Wauwatosa police officer had tremendous impact on the community as a youth group leader and as an up-and-coming law enforcement member.

Jennifer Sebena had a major impact on the lives of high school students at Elmbrook Church. She reached out to them, mentored them through ins-and-outs of high school and comforted them during tough times, like the deaths of classmates. But as the students are mourning the loss of a young woman who they would normally turn to, they are leaning on each other instead. “She always would be able to help us with anything that we had,” said Kristen Overstreet, 18, a senior at Arrowhead High School. “She could relate to anything that we said, which was really, really helpful. We knew that she is not just making it up or isn’t going judge us because she has been through a lot of it.” Sebena, 30, was shot and killed early Christmas Eve while on …

Monday, December 24, 2012

Tosa Police Officer Shot, Killed By Unknown Suspect

Jennifer Lynn Sebena, 30, was found dead early Christmas Eve morning.

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