The Brief
- Authorities are searching for Joseph Levenhagen, a “career criminal” linked to numerous home burglaries across southeast Wisconsin and Mississippi.
- A Waukesha County judge issued an arrest warrant for Levenhagen on March 2.
- Investigators believe Levenhagen is currently on Milwaukee’s south side.
NEW BERLIN, Wis. – Police say he is a serial burglar who keeps getting away. FOX6 News now shares the new development in a case that has wound its way through southeast Wisconsin and beyond.
Serial burglar case
What we know:
Surveillance video from DeSoto County, Mississippi captured in January shows a man detectives say is a “person of interest” in multiple home burglaries there. They identified the man as 43-year-old Joseph Levenhagen of Milwaukee.
Investigators said Levenhagen is the same guy who broke into Keith Paukner’s home in New Berlin in 2025.
“It was all my wife’s jewelry was gone and my jewelry on top of my dresser,” Paukner said.
Arrest warrant issued
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