MILWAUKEE – Several residents of Milwaukee’s Lower East Side woke up Saturday morning to find their car windows smashed.
They’re the latest victims in what has become a series of recent break-ins in the area. Now, one local business is helping people pick up the pieces.
“This morning, I got a buzz at my apartment, and it was an officer,” said Madison Hicks. “He said, ‘Hey, this whole street of cars got its windows punched in – yours is one of them.’”
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It’s a problem that can’t easily be swept under the rug. Hicks has parked on the street for four years and never had her window broken; that is, until now.
FOX6 reached out to the Milwaukee Police Department for more information on the break-ins, but did not hear back by the deadline for this story.
Business steps up
Police told Hicks, she said, that more than 10 …