🌱 How Delafield burglaries helped expose a high-tech interstate crime ring

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In today's newsletter:

• How Delafield burglaries helped expose a high-tech interstate crime ring

Also on today's calendar: A Good Yarn Knitting Group and 3 more events.

Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 70 and low of 51 degrees.
• Thursday: Rather cloudy and warm, temps: high: 76, low: 58.
• Friday: Cloudy, a shower and t-storm, with a high of 70 and low of 44 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Cell Towers and License Plate Scanners: How Modern Law Enforcement Tracks Interstate Crime (findlaw.com) — Recent burglaries in Delafield were part of a wider interstate crime spree that investigators cracked using cell-tower data and license plate cameras. Waukesha County deputies used these tools to track suspects between Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Florida, eventually stopping a vehicle and recovering burglary tools and phones tied to multiple break-ins. The case highlights both effective policing and ongoing privacy concerns.
   

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📸 Around Delafield

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Delafield

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday May 2

• Friends of the Delafield Library book sale
  Delafield Public Library, 500 Genesee Street, Delafield
  9:00 am

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Other local events

Tuesday May 5

• A Good Yarn Knitting Group
  Delafield Public Library , 500 Genesee Street , Delafield
  6:00 pm

Thursday May 7

• Cow Bingo @ Chick-fil-A Delafield
  Chick-fil-A , 2980 Golf Ct , Delafield
  9:00 am

Thursday May 14

• Ladies Night Out
  Downtown Delafield Wi , 610 Milwaukee St , Delafield
  5:00 pm

Saturday May 16

• Friends of the Delafield Library book sale
  Delafield Public Library , 500 Genesee Street , Delafield
  9:00 am
• Pokémon and Board Game Club at the Delafield Library
  Delafield Public Library , 500 Genesee Street , Delafield
  11:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday April 22

• Track & Field: B/8
  Oconomowoc High School , Stadium ~ Football/Track , Oconomowoc
  4:00 pm
• Track & Field: G/8
  Oconomowoc High School , Stadium ~ Football/Track , Oconomowoc
  4:00 pm
• NHI/SLI Track Meets
  Oconomowoc High School , Stadium ~ Football/Track , Oconomowoc
  4:30 pm
• Lacrosse: G/JV
  Mukwonago High School , Football Practice Braves North West , Mukwonago
  6:00 pm
• Lacrosse: G/V
  Mukwonago High School , Football Practice Braves North West , Mukwonago
  7:30 pm

Thursday April 23

• Chair Yoga — Yoga for Life
  210 Cottonwood Ave , Hartland
  3:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Hartland

• Oconomowoc's Hawthorne Ridge Park playground to be rebuilt (gmtoday.com)
• Your View and the Badger State Buzz (April 20-26) (upnorthnewswi.com)
• Carol Marie Krajcik (gmtoday.com)

Oconomowoc

• Nighttime railroad work to occur in Watertown area (gazettextra.com)
• Two arrested following fraud investigation in Columbus (wmtv15news.com)
• Man Killed in Rare Lightning Strike at Wisconsin Gas Station (q985online.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: By inches because they have no feet. (Thank you Gypsy S. for sending it in!)
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