WAUKESHA - Banning a suspected drug offender from downtown Waukesha was a mistake, the Waukesha County District Attorney's office and the Waukesha Police Department acknowledged Wednesday.

At the request of police, the DA's office asked Court Commissioner Gerald Janis on Tuesday to ban Ary Jones, 53, of Waukesha, from downtown Waukesha under the police department's new "map-out" program. Janis agreed to the request as a condition of Jones' $750 bail.

It was the first case of someone being banned from downtown Waukesha under the policy, in which criminals and suspected criminals can be banned from an area of downtown Waukesha in an effort to reduce crime downtown.

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