UPDATE: POLICE ARREST SUSPECT IN VANDALISM TO BEHS FIELD
The Brookfield Police Department has announced on Thursday, September 27 that it has arrested a 17-year old man from Milwaukee in connection with damage at Brookfield East High School.
The police department will seek felony charges of criminal damage to property with the Waukesha County District attorney's Office. A spokesman for the Brookfield Police Department stated that the suspect is not a present or former student of the Elmbrook Schools and has no known ties to the Brookfield area.
Below are links to news coverage about the costly vandalism to the BEHS game field for Spartan Football. The crime occurred overnight Wednesday, August 22 into Thursday, August 23, 2007.
Police believe the man used a cable cutters to get onto the rain-saturated field with a truck-type vehicle, then did spin-outs and figure-8s from the south to north 10-yard lines, causing an estimated $10,000 damage to the playing surface.
IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION THAT COULD HELP IN THE PROSECUTION OF THIS CRIME, PLEASE CALL EITHER--
1. Waukesha County Crimestoppers (if you wish to remain anonymous) at:
888-441-5505
http://lcmunict.com/crime%20stoppers.html
2. Brookfield Police Department (if you feel comfortable providing your name and a number at which you can be reached for follow-up) at:
262-787-3702.
THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF ELMBROOK EXPRESSES ITS DEEP GRATITUDE TO:
- students, athletes, coaches, staff, teachers and administrators at Brookfield
East High School for carrying on and moving forward after this crime without
rancor or bitterness but with a positive, constructive attitude not only internally,
but also as shown to our own and other communities through the crush of many
media interviews;
- people in the community who have offered phone calls, emails or other forms
of Support to the people above;
- dedicated volunteers associated with the booster organization "Brookfield
East 2000 and Beyond" whose own "opening night" in the new Dennis Meyer
Concession Stand at East was delayed by the crime, and whose entire operation
needed to be tranferred to and operated out of the facilities at Brookfield Central's
field;
- the entire Brookfield Central High School Community, including its own
booster organization "BC-2 .. Building Community at Brookfield Central" for the
school's gracious and generous hosting of the 2007-08 home opening game of
Brookfield East on the BC field, with full use of all facilities on Saturday, August
25th. This was accomplished just one day after the game was scheduled to have
been played at East;
- those with the foresight and leadership to make possible the new, state-of-
the-art combined football and soccer field at Brookfield Central, which because of
its special field turf and drainage system was able to absorb and dissipate all of
the heavy rains of the past weeks so well that back-to-back Friday and Saturday
night games could be played upon it without any damage or undue wear;
- the Brookfield Police Department for its immediate, thorough and professional
response to the crime that occurred at Brookfield East High School, its extensive
gathering of evidence and information, and its continuing investigation.
See news coverage via the links below:
CNI Newspapers: BrookfieldNOW.com website (includes video)
http://www.brookfieldnow.com/watch/?watch=14&date=8/23/2007&id=28200
Waukesha Freeman website (includes photographs)
http://activepaper.olivesoftware.com/daily/Skins/Freeman/navigator.asp?skin=Freeman&BP=OK
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website (includes photographs)
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=651568
NewsRadio-620 WTMJ website (includes audio interview and helicopter aerial footage)
http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/9330321.html
Channel-4, WTMJ Television News website (includes video)
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/9340736.html
Channel-12, WISN Television News website (includes video)
http://www.wisn.com/newsarchive/13957348/detail.html
Channel-6, WITI Television News website (includes video)
http://www.myfoxmilwaukee.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4157483&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1
Channel-58, WDJT Television News website
http://www.cbs58.com/cbsdata.cgi?_dhweb=form&_lt23r=home&kv=headlinenews.headlinenew_id=10074
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS CRIME.
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