Someone broke into a Henry R. Marohl Inc. truck on the first day crew members were at Milwaukee’s Johnsons Park for a project to curb neighborhood crime.

Milwaukee County hired the Wauwatosa-based earthmover to level berms, the tallest of which is 14 feet, around the park because the berms block views from the street and promote crime.

Jim Heinemann, a Marohl laborer and truck driver, and Jeff Thompson, the company’s operator and foreman, visited Johnsons Park on Tuesday and were about 50 feet from their truck installing silt fencing around the berm, said John Loberg, estimator for the contractor.

“That’s when it happened,” he said. “The truck was locked, but it didn’t make any difference.”

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