The Milwaukee Post

Social justice advocate Báez given Zeidler Service Award MILWAUKEE — Luis "Tony" Báez, a social justice, civil rights and education advocate who has served the Milwaukee community for more than four decades, received the 2015 Frank P. Zeidler Public Service Award during a special ceremony Tuesday at City Hall. A national and internationally known advocate and speaker, Báez retired earlier this year from Centro Hispano Milwaukee, where he served for eight years as executive director. He also served as provost and chief academic officer of the Milwaukee Area Technical College, and during his 12 years at MATC, he also served as assistant to the president, associate dean of Pre- College Programs, dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and director of Research, Planning and Development. 4 • Milwaukee County Post • September 4, 2015 WEEK IN REVIEW STATE AND LOCAL STORIES OF INTEREST Hales Corners man charged with injuring officer WAUKESHA — A Hales Corners man is facing charges after a Waukesha police offi- cer was reportedly injured while taking him into custody early Saturday. outside a down- town Waukesha bar Daniel J. Robinson, 24, was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court on Monday with disorderly conduct and resisting an officer causing a soft tissue injury. He faces six years and three months in prison if convicted on both counts. According to the criminal complaint, Robinson lay in the roadway outside the Salty Toad, where an officer found him after he had been ejected from the bar for being drunk and knocking over stools. The officer noted Robinson seemed extremely intoxicated. The defendant began spit- ting on a nearby vehicle before the officer attempted to cuff him, the complaint states. Robinson allegedly resisted these efforts so strongly that the officer heard something pop in his left ankle that caused immediate pain. Robinson was eventually placed into a squad car, but kept his legs outside so the door could not be closed, the complaint states. He was taken away by police and the respond- ing officer drove to Waukesha Memorial Hospital to have his ankle evaluated. No diagnosis was available in the complaint. Robinson has a hearing scheduled for Sept. 21. Salvation Army wraps up summer meals program WAUWATOSA — The Salvation Army's Feed The Kids summer meals program served 83,776 lunches this summer. "Thank you to volunteers and supporters for donating time and resources to this year's summer meal program," said Major Dan Jennings, Salvation Army divisional commander for Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. Feed The Kids is a summer meal program designed to meet the needs of children in Milwaukee's poorest neighborhoods. Salvation Army vans take lunch meals to neigh- borhoods, parks and street corners to serve to area children Monday through Friday for 10 weeks. For 150 years, the Salvation Army has been providing meals to children. In 2014, the Salvation Army provided 127,671 lunches through the Feed the Kids summer meals pro- gram. MPD: District Two officers arrest felon in South Side sexual assault and sexual assault attempt MILWAUKEE — Police District Two officers arrested a felon wanted in connection with a sexual assault and an attempted sexual assault, both on the city's South Side, police said. Officers said they responded to the 1000 block of South 19th Street at about 2:40 a.m. Aug. 27 for a report of a sexual assault and a robbery. The victim, a 28-year-old Milwaukee woman, told officers a suspect had just sexually assaulted her in a nearby alley and robbed her of her purse at knifepoint. The victim gave officers a description of the car the suspect was driving and at about 3:15 a.m. officers reported finding it in the 1500 block of South 15th Street. The suspect, a 27-year-old Milwaukee man, was taken into cus- tody, police said. While the officers were at the scene with the suspect, a 23-year-old Milwaukee woman approached the officers and said the suspect attempted to sexually assault her a few min- utes earlier and stole money from her, according to police. The suspect is a convicted felon with an arrest record dating back to 2005. Burglary suspect pushing stolen snow blower on summer day stands out, police say MILWAUKEE — Police said they arrested a burglary suspect on the Northwest Side after the suspect was seen pushing a stolen snow blower across a parking lot on an 80-plus-degree day. District Seven officers responded to the 5500 block of West Brooklyn Place at about 5:15 p.m. Monday after a caller told officers she saw a man breaking into a neighbor's garage. While headed to the scene, another caller told police they saw a suspicious man, who matched the description of the garage burglary suspect, pushing a snow blower near North 60th and West Burleigh streets. Officers stopped a 32-year-old Milwaukee man and took him into custody. The suspect, who is a convicted felon, later confessed to stealing the snow blower from the garage and confessed to four other area burglaries in the previous two weeks, police said. Milwaukee man allegedly impersonated officer WAUKESHA — A Milwaukee man allegedly caused a disturbance inside a local Walgreens and wrongly identified himself as a police officer. Michael P. Leas, 49, was charged with disorderly conduct and impersonating a peace officer, both misdemeanors. He faces up to one year in prison if convicted. According to the criminal complaint, Leas was inside the store, 230 Madison St., yelling at staff and calling them inept. After he calmed down and was paying for his items, Leas allegedly displayed a busi- ness card with a police badge on it and said "I'm a cop and here's my identification." After he was taken into custody, the complaint states, Leas recorded a 0.14 on a pre- liminary breath test and eventually admitted to police he was not an officer and that it was "the booze talking." 16-year-old girl shot Monday on North Teutonia MILWAUKEE — A 16-year-old girl was shot at about 8:35 p.m. Monday during a dis- pute in the 6000 block of North Teutonia Avenue, police reported. She was taken to a local hospital for a non-life-threatening injury, police said. The Police Department said it is trying to determine what led to the shooting while trying to identify the unknown suspect, who is a female. Milwaukee man convicted in out-of-county 16-mile chase WEST BEND — An 18-year-old Milwaukee man pleaded guilty to a charge of attempt- ing to flee or elude an officer and no contest to criminal damage to a highway or a vehi- cle Monday after he allegedly led West Bend Police on a 16-mile chase in a stolen car that at times exceeded 100 mph. Three other charges against Christopher Lott were dropped but will be considered at the time of sentencing in Washington County Circuit Court. According to the criminal complaint, at about 1:37 a.m. July 10, a West Bend police officer tried to pull a car over for speeding in the city, which led to a chase south on Highway P at speeds of more than 100 mph. An officer from the Germantown Police Department used a tire deflation device that caused the car's front passenger tire to come off the rim, which slowed it to a speed of 25 to 30 mph. When it reached the Lannon Road exit, a deputy from the Washington County Sheriff's Department "was in position to deploy additional tire defla- tion devices, however, as the vehicle approached, it lost control and nearly struck him." Lott and two juveniles who were in the car were taken into custody. The car, a 1998 Ford Taurus, was reported stolen from Milwaukee on July 9. Sentencing was set for 2 p.m. Nov. 6. Lott Báez

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