Man arrested for robbing ice cream man
Milwaukee police have arrested a 19-year-old man who’s accused of using a .40-caliber handgun to rob an ice cream man of money and ice cream on the city’s south side.
The 31-year-old man was selling ice cream bars from a cart in the neighborhood of S. 20th St. and W. Scott St. on June 21, according to an affidavit accompanying a search warrant. He had just completed a sale when a man came out of a house on Scott St. and approached him, demanding money.
The man displayed a black handgun, which he placed against the ice cream seller’s ribs. The man stole a $5 bill from the ice cream man’s hand and stole his wallet, which contained $150.
The man then told the ice cream seller to leave and chased after him with his gun pointed at him. The man also fired the gun once in the air.
The ice cream seller told police the man returned to the ice cream cart and stole ice cream bars. Two other men and a woman also stole items from the cart, police said. The woman returned to the same address that the suspect had previously exited.
A witness was able to identify the suspect. He was arrested two weeks later at the Pick n’ Save at 7401 W. Good Hope Road after witnesses and an off-duty officer had seen him drop a firearm outside the store. When he was arrested, police found a black semiautomatic firearm on him.
The man was being held in the Milwaukee Police Department Municipal Jail in lieu of $10,000 bail on allegations of possession of a firearm and robbery with the use of force. He has not been charged, but is scheduled for a preliminary court appearance Monday.
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