06/04/2026
It's nearly the weekend, friends, and it will likely be another busy one for the Patrol Division and Parks Unit, so let's offer them a little of encouragement in the form of a shoutout for a job well done last week in recovering several illicit fi****ms at three Milwaukee County parks and arresting the people in possession of them.
At Sherman Park, a Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office detective in an unmarked squad observed an armed juvenile. Responding deputies conducted a traffic stop and recovered the firearm. Minutes later, while that incident was still being investigated, our Parks Unit was alerted to citizen reports of armed juveniles at Lincoln Park. The same alert detective moved to Lincoln Park and, with the help of our Drone Unit, located and safely detained two armed juveniles who had fi****ms equipped with switches, which, for the uninitiated, illegally modify and convert semi-automatic handguns to fully automatic machine guns. Finally, Parks Unit deputies, in Cupertino Park to follow up on citizen reports about rowdy after-hours gatherings, recovered an illicit AR-15 rifle from a 20-year-old man.