BRADY STREET BANDIT SOUGHT

The photo above was thought to be, but is not, the "Brady Street Bandit," who has held up four businesses on the street over the course of the past week or so. The picture had been posted in many places of business on the street. [See update below for further information.]
About the Brady Street Bandit:
He's a short crackhead, according to those who have seen him in the past. He seems familiar with the Brady Street neighborhood, particularly the eastern end where he has pulled most of his jobs.
He does not get much money from the stores he robs, and the cash almost certainly goes immediately to drugs. He claims to have a gun, and should be considered armed and dangerous, but there is a likelihood that if he had a gun, he would have sold it for drugs by now.
The photograph you see is of our robber at work at the M&I Marshall and Ilsley Bank on N. Water Street, which he held up Friday, thus ratcheting his offense level to a federal crime.
If this were London, the police probably would already have got their man, since the British capital makes extensive use of public cameras and facial recognition technology.
Police Chief Annette Hegerty is considering installing pole cameras in Milwaukee, using drug asset forfeiture funds.
The folks on Brady Street probably wouldn't mind having a camera or two.

[UPDATE: 10 March 2006 -- The fellow in the photograph has been identified as Emmett P. Bankhead, (what a great name for a drug addict bank robber!) He is shown on his way to pick up cash to buy some drugs. Police arrested him in connection with three bank robberies including the March 2 hold-up at the M&I Bank (pictured above). Bankhead also admitted to the robbery of the Wells Fargo Bank at 735 W. Wisconsin Ave. and the Associated Bank at 200 E. Wisconsin Ave. However, police do not now believe, as they did earlier in the week, that he was the Brady Street bandit. That suspect may be in custody at this time, according to Jim Searles of the Brady Street Pharmacy. We'll tell you more if the police ever call us back.]
--Michael Horne

NEW WARDEN FOR OXFORD

Attention all inmates at the Federal Correction Institution in Oxford, Wisconsin! Meet your new warden, Ricardo Martinez, a twenty-year veteran of the Bureau of Prisons who took over the medium security facility and its approximately 1336 inmates this week.
Martinez was previously the warden at the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, South Dakota where his inmates included such celebrated Wisconsinites as former Ald. Paul Henningsen and Sen. Gary George.
-- Michael Horne