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4 • Milwaukee County Post • September 25, 2015 WEEK IN REVIEW STATE AND LOCAL STORIES OF INTEREST Suspects arrested in South Side armed robberies MILWAUKEE — Police say they arrested two suspects, and are seeking a third, who are believed to be responsible for two armed robberies on the South Side. District Two officers responded to the 500 block of West Historic Mitchell Street around 12:15 a.m. Tuesday for a report of an armed robbery. The victim, a 25-year-old Milwaukee man, told police that three men, armed with guns, approached him and demanded his belongings, taking his money and cellphone, then fled on foot. Around 12:55 a.m., District Six officers received a report of an armed robbery in the 2500 block of South Logan Avenue. The victim, a 30-year-old Milwaukee man, was robbed of his cell- phone and a telescope by three suspects, one of them armed with a gun, police reported. Officers who responded to the second armed robbery found the stolen telescope inside a nearby car in the 1000 block of E. Conway Street. Two suspects, ages 22 and 24 and who matched the description of the suspects in the robberies, were located and arrested a short time later in the neighborhood. The car, with the stolen telescope inside, belonged to one of the suspects. The stolen cell phone from the Logan Avenue robbery was found on the 22-year-old and the stolen cell phone from the Historic Mitchell Street robbery was found inside his car. The MPD is still searching for a third suspect. Both cases will be pre- sented to the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office in the coming days. Defendant pleads guilty to killing baby, man MILWAUKEE — Ruben Garcia, 21, Milwaukee, on Monday pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing his infant daughter and another man in January, media reported. He entered the guilty pleas to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the deaths of his daughter, Kairii Dailey, 5 months, and Paul Kucharczyk, 39. Prosecutors say Garcia flew into a rage when the baby's mother and his ex-girlfriend Alexia Daily, 19, refused to take him back. Garcia also was accused of stabbing Daly and her boyfriend Christopher Hamilton, 22. County committee opposes Opportunity Schools plan MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee County Board's Committee on Intergovernmental Relations last week passed a resolution calling for the repeal of a law that allows the county executive to appoint and supervise a commissioner who will oversee the turnover of under-resourced and underserved Milwaukee Public Schools to public charter or pri- vate voucher school operators. The resolution also calls for legal analysis of liability issues for Milwaukee County and a cost analysis of the law, which is known as the Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program. In addition, the resolution also creates a county policy that the commissioner not be a county employee. "This law will diminish the power of Milwaukee voters and residents to self-govern their public schools," said Supervisor Khalif Rainey in a statement. "What experience does the county executive have in governing educa- tion? Why should the county executive subvert the will of the people by taking away power from the democratically elected School Board? This takeover of MPS needs to be repealed." Supervisor John F. Weishan Jr., said in a statement that municipalities outside the city of Milwaukee should not be expected to support failing public schools with their property tax dollars. Weishan and Rainey authored the coun- ty resolution. County Supervisor Deanna Alexander said she was the only person to vocally support creat- ing opportunities for children attending low-performing schools. "Out of 426 school districts in the state of Wisconsin, the Opportunity Schools plan looks at the one performing at the very bot- tom, and looks at the 154 schools that district operates, focusing on just a handful of the lowest of the low, sub-par schools where the chil- dren are currently graduated grade to grade without even knowing how to read," Alexander said in a statement. The resolution creates a formal position of county opposition to the Opportunity Schools Partnership Program, Alexander said. The committee voted 4-1, with supervisors Gerry Broderick, David Cullen, Jason Hass, Peggy Romo West voting for the resolution, Alexander against it, and Mariana Dimitrijevic and Tony Staskunas absent. "People complain about systemic problems of poverty and jobless- ness and incarceration and ask what we will do to fix that. I'll tell you where we start: We make an all-hands-on-deck effort to keep those kids from falling through the cracks, and I'm not going to abandon the kids by support- ing this misguided resolution," Alexander said. Teens accused of two robberies in Riverwest MILWAUKEE — Three suspects wanted in two strong-armed robberies that happened just minutes apart in Riverwest were arrested, the Milwaukee Police Department said. District Five officers said they responded to the 800 block of East Chambers Street at about 10:10 p.m. Sept. 15 where a 29-year-old Milwaukee woman told officers she was walking when a male and female suspect approached her and took her phone after a struggle. At 10:20 p.m. Sept. 15, a male suspect grabbed a phone out of a 20-year-old woman's hand in the 2700 block of North Bremen Street, then fled with a group of juve- niles, police said. Officers on patrol in the area found three suspects, who matched the descriptions given by the victims, at about 11:45 p.m. Sept. 15 in the 1900 block of North First Street, police said. Two 14-year-old boys and a 15-year-old girl, all from Milwaukee, were report- ed as being taken into custody. Officers said they found the stolen phone from the first incident discarded in the 2600 block of North Bremen Street. Milwaukee man allegedly stole tools from store WAUKESHA — A Milwaukee man allegedly used a woman's car to steal tools from a Menomonee Falls store and then had the woman return one of them to a different store for credit. Kenneth Genous, 27, was charged Monday in Waukesha County Circuit Court with felony retail theft and faces 3 1/2 years in prison if convicted. He is due in court Oct. 19. A criminal complaint said Genous and two other men entered the Home Depot store in Menomonee Falls on June 16 and stole almost $1,900 worth of power tools. Store secu- rity got a license plate number from their vehicle, which listed to a Milwaukee woman and her father; Genous is a friend of that woman, the complaint said. It added that the woman and Genous showed up at a Milwaukee Home Depot store later that same morning, returning one of the tools and receiving store credit for $284, as seen on surveillance video from that store. Survey: Weight management a major health concern MILWAUKEE — While one-third of Wisconsin residents say their weight is their top health concern as they age, keeping the extra pounds off is more a point of emphasis for younger residents, according to Aurora's Quarterly Health of Wisconsin Report. The survey found 45 percent of residents between the ages of 18 and 34 are concerned with their weight as they age compared to just 21 percent of those 55 and older. "As people age, it becomes increasingly important that they take good care of their overall health," said Dr. Andy Anderson, chief medical officer with Aurora Health Care. West Allis police: Suspected drug manufacture stopped in vacant duplex unit WEST ALLIS — Police continued an investigation into suspected manufacture of syn- thetic drugs in a vacant unit of a duplex in the 1800 block of South 68th Street. West Allis officers responding to a call of suspicious activity at 12:09 a.m. Monday said they found several people in the unit and detected a smell of chemicals. Officers removed the indi- viduals from the home and the West Allis Fire Department and the Milwaukee Fire Department's Hazardous Materials Response Unit responded to the scene, West Allis police said. The Police Department also requested assistance from the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigations and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency for the removal and proper disposal of the possible chemicals. No persons were injured and there is no known danger to the general public, police said. Deputy Chief Robert Fletcher said the type of drugs expected to be manufactured had not been identified. Weishan Jr. Alexander Rainey

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