The Kenosha County Sheriff's Office is investigating an apparent break-in at a Silver Lake bar. Deputies responded to Benders Bar and Grill, 409 E. Northwater Street, on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026, and secured the outside of the business with crime scene tape.
Photographs from the scene showed broken glass spread across the concrete walkway, along with a hammer and a red baseball cap inside the taped area. A deputy wearing blue evidence gloves was also photographed at the building. Whether anything was taken from the bar, how entry was made, and whether the hammer was used in the break-in were not yet known.
Deputies were also looking into a theft the same morning at a gas station and convenience store at 515 S. Cogswell Drive. Radio traffic described a man taking liquor from the shelves and leaving in a gray vehicle, and another man with facial tattoos who entered the store and used the restroom before leaving. The liquor theft suspect was described as about 5 feet 6 inches tall with a medium build, wearing a red sweatshirt and black jogger pants.
Radio traffic also raised the possibility that a suspect had suffered serious cuts to an arm and heavy blood loss, and a deputy asked dispatchers to check area hospitals for a man matching the description seeking treatment. The injury was thought to date to about 5:30 a.m., though how it happened was not confirmed.
The search later took deputies to Bassett Road, where what looked like blood was reported on the outside of a vehicle and a brown Chevrolet Equinox was towed to a law enforcement facility as evidence. Transmissions later in the morning reported two people detained and Miranda warnings given, but it was not clear whether those detentions were tied directly to the bar break-in. The Sheriff's Office has not publicly confirmed that the bar break-in, the gas station theft and the other reports are all connected.
