Crime & Safety

‘This Is A First’: Teen Passes Out In Cops’ Milwaukee Airbnb

Moral of the story? Don't drink too much, according to the visiting deputies.

MILWAUKEE, WI — An inebriated teenager got more than he bargained for last week after he mistakenly wandered into the wrong Milwaukee house and decided to go to bed.

In fact, the 19-year-old woke up in handcuffs — not because he had an unforgettable night, but because the house he picked was an Airbnb occupied by three Montana sheriff's deputies.

"This silly guy found the one Airbnb in all of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, loaded with cops," one of the deputies said in a TikTok video of the encounter posted to Instagram.

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The man who recorded the video was identified by CNN as Charles Pesola, a deputy from Flathead County, Montana. He and two other deputies were staying at the Airbnb while attending a training session in Wisconsin.

The three men went to bed Thursday night and were awakened by noises, but they assumed it was one of the others. It wasn’t until morning that they found the intoxicated 19-year-old sleeping soundly upstairs, Milwaukee-based Fox 6 reported.

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"Dude broke into the house in the middle of the night," one of the deputies said while turning the camera toward the teenager.

"No, this is a first for that. I've woken up in random places, though," the young man tells the officers in the video.

The three deputies called local police for safety purposes, who came and detained the teen. They did not press charges, according to CNN. The teen was also cooperative.

The moral of the story? “Don’t drink too much," Pesola told CNN.

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