Man Caught Trying to Burglarize Wis. Fire Department
Source Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
JACKSON, Wis. -- An ill-informed 23-year-old man broke into the Jackson Fire Department on Sunday evening in search of narcotic painkillers, but his attempted burglary went awry when an off-duty firefighter confronted him, Police Chief Jed Dolnick said Monday.
The department does not stock narcotic painkillers for its EMS ambulance, Dolnick said.
The man fled from the station on foot after the firefighter entered around 9 p.m. Sunday, Dolnick said.
Jackson police officers, Washington County sheriff's deputies, the Cedarburg Police Department's K9 unit and a state Department of Natural Resources warden searched a nearby residential neighborhood late Sunday for the suspect, but the man was not found.
An investigation led police to the suspect Monday morning, and the man admitted to breaking into the station for narcotics, Dolnick said.
The man is not in custody. Jackson police have asked the district attorney's office to consider criminal charges in the incident.
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