Jessica Setzer
MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- 20-year-old Jessica Setzer is charged with one count of felony theft -- for allegedly stealing a three-month-old Chihuahua from a home on Milwaukee's south side.
Police were called to a home near 15th and Becher on Wednesday, January 14th to investigate the theft of a dog. The owner told an officer around 10 a.m., he "let his four Chihuahua puppies outside into his fenced-in yard to let them use the bathroom. The complaint says the owner "saw a white female...walking back and forth near his property." The owner told police he later saw the woman "reach over the fence and pick up a three-month-old milk-chocolate-brown female Chihuahua with a blue collar." The owner told police he ran from his home -- and the woman "began running away with the dog."
The complaint indicates police used video surveillance from a grocery store to identify and later track down Setzer.
When officers confronted Setzer, the complaint says she admitted to taking "the Chihuahua puppy but that she did not reach over the fence and take the dog; rather the dog followed her out of the yard."
If convicted, Setzer faces up to six years in prison and $10,000 in fines.
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