Not to disparage the good, hard-working, people who make a living by making affordable products to people without excessive amounts of expendable income, but some crimes are just better when they involve less than costly items — especially cheap beer.
Police recently followed a trail of drained Milwaukee’s Best cans to the arrest of a local lady.
One officer was working a call where the side window of a house had been busted out. Once inside the home, the intruder stole a 12-pack of “The Beast,” as some refer to the inexpensive beer, from the fridge. Several empty cans were left in the trash can.
The resident said he’d broken up with his girlfriend a while back and thought she could be the perpetrator. Once the officer heard the woman’s name, his memory drifted back — way back — to about two hours before and put away his DNA kit. No need to call in the forensic crime analysts on this case.
He had been patrolling downtown when he saw a woman sitting on a park bench “drinking an unknown substance from an aluminum can.”
She got up and threw away the can as the officer walked up; but in the trash, he could see it was a can of “The Beast.” Drinking alcohol on public property is illegal and the woman was arrested. As a precaution, the officer also searched her effects, including her purse, for any other contraband.
She only had two cans left at the time. It was about 2 p.m. on a Thursday.