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West Allis, WI - Three men are in custody after they allegedly robbed an Aldi’s grocery store in Greenfield and led police to lock down West Allis Memorial Hospital.
Brad Wentlandt, deputy inspector of the Greenfield Police Department, stated in a press release that a black man armed with a sawed-off shotgun robbed a clerk at Aldi’s, 4225 S. 108th St. in Greenfield at 6:30 p.m.
The man took money from the cash register and fled west on Coldspring Road.
A few minutes later, a retired Hales Corners police officer who witnessed the robbery, called and said he was following the suspect vehicle north on 108th Street. Greenfield officers responded to the area and pursued the vehicle until they got to 92nd Street and Lincoln Avenue in West Allis where one of three suspects inside the car fled armed with the shotgun.
The two men who were in the vehicle were arrested, but one suspect was still on foot near West Allis Memorial Hospital. Officers lost sight of the man and the hospital was put on lock down for security reasons.
Officers from both West Allis and Greenfield set up a perimeter and began a search. Moments later, the man was spotted trying to break into a building on the hospital campus. He was found hiding under a vehicle in the parking lot and was taken into custody.
The sawed of shotgun was located with the help of a Greenfield Police Department canine unit. The gun was hidden in a window well of a residence in the 2200 block of South 91st Street.
The suspects, all of Milwaukee, are ages 48, 26, and 23-years old.
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