Fake cleaners steal big-screen TVs - WHAT!?!?!

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Gene Bauer was watching the History Channel late Sunday when two men walked into the community room of the Jefferson Court apartment complex where he lives. They said they were there to shampoo the carpet at the senior housing facility.

Gene Bauer, a resident of the Jefferson Court apartment complex, stands in the community room Monday after two men posing as cleaners made off with the complex's new TV on Sunday night.

Buy a link hereHe asked if he just could see the end of the program. They said OK. When it was over, Bauer, 71, left.
When he returned about a half hour later, the men were gone and so was the complex's new 52-inch Toshiba Regza TV, installed in January for residents at the 222-unit apartment building at 415 E. Knapp St.

The theft came a week after officials at the Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center released information on the April 4 theft of a 52-inch Samsung LCD TV from the dining room by a thief posing as a maintenance worker. That case remains under investigation. Milwaukee Police Department Public Information Officer Bobby Lindsey said Monday there is no evidence the cases are related except that Sunday's culprits might be copy-cat thieves.

About 250 residents 62 and older live at Jefferson Court, which is operated by Franciscan Ministries Inc., a subsidiary of Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare. They gather in the community room for socializing, movies and to exercise, all with use of their big-screen TV.

Deb Karaszewski, senior property manager, said the television was purchased with the agency's federal Housing and Urban Development funds. She was uncertain about a potential replacement.

Surveillance cameras picked up the two thieves, who took 26 minutes to dismount and walk away with the TV.

The heist stunned maintenance manager Fred Sigrist. He said it's impossible to enter the building after dusk unless a resident opens a door. He installed the TV and was sure it was secure.

"I told the officer, 'This is impossible. I installed that thing. I cabled it. I bolted it,' " he said. "They knew what they needed to do. They brought the right tools to get that TV."

Resident James Martin Rainier, 76, said: "It's an absurd thing for people to prey upon the elderly and to take anything from anyone else. If you can't buy it yourself, you shouldn't have it."