Category: Crime and safety

A preliminary hearing was pushed back for a man accused of poisoning a UW lab worker.

The UW-Madison Police Department will not renew its contract with Flock Safety and is in the process of removing the company’s controversial cameras from campus.

Dave Krueger with UW PD Lake Rescue and Safety says their service will be available between 11 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. this week and weekend and can be reached by phone, through 911 or on VHF radio channel 16.

The UW-Madison Police Department has decided not to renew its annual contract with Flock Safety, which ended June 26.

That’s how much five public safety agencies — Madison police and fire, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office, UW-Madison Police and the county’s 911 Center — spent for overtime related to babysitting the annual spring bacchanal, which this year took place on April 25.

A $50,000 cash bond was set Wednesday afternoon for a 43-year-old man charged in an attempted sexual assault at UW Hospital last month, online court records show.

Forty-four years after University of Wisconsin-Madison student Donna Mraz was murdered, UW-Madison Police say the case remains active and continues to generate new leads.

The UW-Madison Police Department said [Coney] went into multiple restrooms at UW Health University Hospital while armed with a knife. That’s where he tried to sexually assault a hospital employee, according to investigators.

A 43-year-old man has been charged after UW-Madison police said he attempted to sexually assault a hospital employee at University Hospital earlier this month.

Earlier this week the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department witnessed someone driving 93 mph on Campus Drive – where the speed limit is 35 mph.

This comes after an officer took it upon themself to keep track of different speeds witnessed on the road, that has been a known problem in the past.

“For us it’s all about safety, it’s not about finding an opportunity to give somebody a citation” said UW Police Department Executive Director of Communications, Marc Lovicott.

Rescue officials are responding to a boat rescue on Lake Mendota on Tuesday.

Dane County Dispatch explained that people were on top of a flipped boat out on Lake Mendota near the Warner Park Beach.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department and Middleton Fire were responding to the scene.

The UW-Madison Police Department said that officers have removed several firearms “from situations that posed a potential risk to [their] campus and the surrounding community.”

The announcement came Tuesday afternoon, detailing cases involving individuals not affiliated with the university. These incidents included a range of violations, from going armed while intoxicated to prohibited possession.

The UW-Madison Police Department is renewing call for information in the 1982 death of UW-Madison student Donna Mraz.

In the early morning hours of July 2, 1982  just days before the July 4 holiday Mraz was walking home from her shift at The Bittersweet restaurant on State Street. While on a sidewalk behind Camp Randall Stadium, she was stabbed repeatedly by an unknown offender with an unknown motivation.

A University of Wisconsin lab worker upset about his colleague’s behavior and promotion allegedly confessed to poisoning the co-worker’s water bottle.

Makoto Kuroda, 41, was charged with recklessly endangering safety and tampering with a household product “with the intent to kill, injure or otherwise endanger the health” of another person, according to a criminal complaint filed in Dane County last week.

A scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison had simmered for years with such resentment and jealousy over a colleague that he poisoned the man’s water with chemicals this month, local authorities said.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher admitted to poisoning his colleague, saying he was angered by the co-worker’s attitude after a promotion and his disdain for following lab rules, according to a complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court.

Four people were charged in the shooting of a 17-year-old on Lathrop St., leading to their death in 2021.

The teen was killed in a drive-by near the UW-Madison campus.

Police found 18 spent shell casings and the victim had a single gunshot wound.

A Dane County court commissioner set a $5,000 bond Tuesday for a UW-Madison lab employee accused of trying to poison his coworker.

Makoto Kuroda made his initial appearance in Dane County Court, where Court Commissioner Brian Asmus set a $5,000 bond for him.

The UW-Madison student who was arrested for recording other students in a residence hall bathroom will be facing adjusted charges.

Braden Berndt, 19, was arrested in February and charged with three felony counts of capturing an intimate representation and three misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct.

UW-Madison Police Department officers cited three people after a high-powered laser was pointed at buildings, roads and a police officer on Wednesday.

The department explained a high-powered laser can be significantly stronger than a typical laser used during a presentation, which poses major safety risks to drivers and law enforcement.

UWPD said the laser briefly affected the officer’s vision.

UWPD urged people to never aim a laser at others.

The University of Wisconsin notified students in an email Wednesday afternoon that there had been incidents of fondling in an unknown academic building.

The incidents were reported to UW through a report from a Campus Security Authority — which the university defines as either a member of UW Police Department, individuals responsible for campus security, certain members of administration or housing and other departments on campus that handle criminal reports.

The city of Madison does not operate any Flock cameras; under the city’s “surveillance devices” ordinance, any proposed contract would have to be approved by both the mayor and city council. Both the University of Wisconsin Police Department and Wisconsin State Capitol Police, which have primary jurisdiction on campus and near the Capitol, respectively, have contracts with Flock. The Capitol Police’s four cameras are located around the Capitol Square.

Marc Lovicott, spokesperson for UW police, declined to share the locations of the department’s eight cameras. He says the department automatically shares Flock data with other Wisconsin law enforcement agencies, but will only share data with other state and federal agencies upon request and on a “case-by-case basis.”

Police at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Police Department say a new system of license plate reader cameras is helping investigators identify vehicles connected to crimes on and around campus faster.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is asking the public to help identify suspects in three separate theft cases that happened on campus.

The UW student arrested last week for recording others in a dorm bathroom has now been accused of taking up to 50 videos of others in Sellery Residence Hall, according to Channel 3000 News.

A man who was accused of throwing rocks at Jewish UW-Madison students pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct and was referred to a first offender program.

The UW-Madison student who was arrested after recording other students in a residence hall bathroom is charged with three counts of capturing an intimate representation without consent and three counts of disorderly conduct.

Braden Berndt, 19, was arrested after being caught dropping a blue iPhone between two bathroom stalls with the lens face up multiple times to other students, according to the criminal complaint.