Opinion ID: 6341114
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Heading: The Robbery of Neil’s Liquor

Text: On November 4, 2018, a man—subsequently identiﬁed as Edwards—robbed Neil’s Liquor in Middleton, Wisconsin. Six security cameras captured Edwards and the robbery. Edwards parked a black Mitsubishi Outlander on a street behind Neil’s Liquor, crossed a wooden footbridge connected to the store’s parking lot, and entered the liquor store. Moments later, Edwards robbed Neil’s Liquor at gunpoint then escaped out the back door. Edwards left the scene on foot, leaving the parked Outlander behind. Two hours later, a white SUV parked in Neil’s Liquor’s lot. A man (presumably Edwards), a woman, and a dog exited the SUV and walked onto the wooden footbridge. The pair then split up, with the man driving oﬀ in the Outlander and the woman and dog returning to the white SUV. Detective Schultz of the Middleton Police Department learned the Outlander was registered to Edwards’s ex-girlfriend, who told Detective Schultz that she sold Edwards the Outlander in 2016. Based on the security camera footage of the robbery, Detective Schultz’s observations, and the No. 20-3297 3 statements from Neil’s Liquor’s cashier and Edwards’s exgirlfriend, Detective Schultz prepared a warrant application to place a GPS tracking device on the Outlander. The supporting aﬃdavit included Edwards’s criminal history, which Detective Schultz described as “lengthy … including but not limited to arrests for” six robberies between 1998 and 2005. Edwards in fact had ﬁfteen arrests and ﬁve convictions. A judge issued the warrant, and on November 7, 2018, law enforcement oﬃcers placed the GPS tracking device on Edwards’s Outlander.