Crime Stoppers: Suspects accused of attacking employee with chair before stealing iPhones - WDJT

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- It's a transgression Milwaukee constabulary accidental they're seeing much and more: radical going into Cricket stores and stealing iPhones. 

And to halt it, they request your help.

Take a look astatine the photos. They're immoderate of the lone pieces of grounds Milwaukee detectives person successful bid to lick an equipped robbery. 

"What we would request from the nationalist is for anybody to instrumentality a look astatine the surveillance photos to spot if they admit thing chiseled astir the suspects to assistance springiness america a hint oregon astatine slightest a starting constituent of who to look astatine successful this case."

On Oct. 23, 2022, Milwaukee constabulary accidental 2 men walked into the Cricket store connected 76th and Mill Road. 

MPD Detective Brendan Dolan says astatine first, everything seemed normal. 

"They unreal that they're going to bargain a cellphone. The charade goes connected for astir a fractional hour. Then, eventually, 1 of the suspects grabs a metallic seat and starts to onslaught the employee...it was similar a metallic Marquette chair, thing you would spot connected level seats astatine a hoops crippled and they prime it up and they commencement beating him similar it's WWE. And they were backing him into the back...and yet helium makes the determination similar I've got to get myself safe. So, helium goes into the bath and effort and prop the stool successful a mode that prevents them from opening the door," said Detective Dolan. 

Then, Dolan says, they grabbed 9 iPhones and ran. There were nary cameras wrong the store and with nary forensic grounds near behind, officers are stumped connected what they accidental is simply a increasing transgression successful Milwaukee.

"Just the level of unit that was utilized successful the mediate of the time to effort and summation these cellphones and that these cellphones airs a immense problem," Dolan said. "What a batch of radical don't recognize is erstwhile these cellphones are stolen, often times they are taken to Chicago oregon to parts of Milwaukee wherever they are sold to a idiosyncratic who is called a 'fence.' A idiosyncratic who buys stolen goods...The cellphone robberies person been truly big, and we thin to spot a spike astir vacation times and whenever a caller mentation of the telephone comes retired successful the wide public. These are highly sought aft items."

If you cognize thing astir this case, telephone Milwaukee Crime Stoppers. 

The fig is 414-224-TIPS. You tin besides usage the P3 Tips app. Remember, your telephone oregon extremity submission is ever anonymous, and if it leads to an arrest, you get a currency reward.