Two UW-Madison students doing pull-ups off a construction crane late Thursday night were cited for trespassing, Madison police reported.
Madison police say officers were called to the 500 block of W. Washington Avenue just after 11 p.m. Thursday for a complaint of two people climbing and hanging on the crane near the intersection of Bassett Street.
A Dane County court denied a request to lower the bond for one of two men accused of killing a Madison couple in the UW Madison Arboretum.Khari Sanford, 20, is accused of two counts of first degree intentional homicide.
In an attempt to the hide from the officers, the suspects apparently took a page from action movies and started climbing higher to get away from police. Just like in the movies though, it didn’t work, and officers said the students came down once they saw firefighters had arrived on scene.
While some student activists saw progress, advocacy for addressing campus policing issues continues to unfold.
California couple die of covid, leaving five kids behind. Their newborn is 3…Novak Djokovic’s tears, Daniil Medvedev booed during sets and history…Police arrested 45 and ejected 32 during a University of Wisconsin (UW) football game against Eastern Michigan University on Saturday, WISC-TV reported.
Officers got to the scene and took the man — 32-year-old Danion M ODell of Madison — into custody within a minute of being dispatched.
The UW-Madison Police Department reported 22 first aid calls and 19 paramedic calls over the course of UW’s 34-7 win over Eastern Michigan Saturday.
No one was injured in the incident.
The UW Madison Police Department has released their report of incidents during Saturday’s Badger game against Eastern Michigan, showing a sharp increase since last week’s season opener.
At about 9 a.m. Friday, UW police received a report of a man with a gun in the parking lot of the Waisman Center, 1500 Highland Ave., and another caller reported the man had fired a shot into the ground, UW police spokesperson Marc Lovicott said in a statement.
Officers arrested two men — 26-year-old David Cartagena of Madison and 25-year-old Chikezie Obiora of Milwaukee — on tentative charges of burglary, resisting and obstructing, and disorderly conduct.
With students returning to campus for the 2021-22 school year, scammers are out in full force. UW Police Department says it’s seeing a “massive uptick” in the number of scams targeting students and community members. According to a report from the UW Police Department, the FBI tracked over $3.5 billion in losses due to scams in 2019.
According to a news release from the UW-Madison Police Department, at approximately 5:30 a.m. Thursday morning two suspects entered an unlocked apartment in the University Apartments indenting to steal property.
Marc Lovicott, the UWPD Director of Communications, says this game day is extra special because fans are finally back. “This is like a double first year because we didn’t have a first-year last year and I feel like there’s this pent-up excitement,” Lovicott said.
According to a release, 10 citations were issued for underage alcohol consumption, while one citation was issued for possession of alcohol on UW Lands. One citation was also issued for obstructing an officer.
Eleven students were arrested and paramedics were called 21 times during Saturday’s season opener for the University of Wisconsin’s football team, UW-Madison police said.
While an oven and lab room suffered significant damage, nobody was injured.
The fire forced people to evacuate the building, MFD reported.
The Madison Fire Department reports no injuries after a fire flared out of a laboratory oven in the Wisconsin Energy Institute Tuesday.
Asprinkler kept an oven fire under control at the UW-Madison Wisconsin Energy Institute on Tuesday until fire crews arrived to put it out, authorities reported.
Loyal Crawford faces charges of criminal disorderly conduct and disorderly conduct while armed, according to the UW Police Department.
The Madison Police Department says that when officers arrived, they found David Beloungy inside the house, along with stolen belongings. The 27-year-old Beloungy was also in possession of tools that officers say indicated he intended to commit a burglary.
A UW-Madison Police Department spokesperson stated Tuesday that a physical altercation happened between two people, one of which was Crawford, on Saturday, Aug. 21 in a residence hall. UWPD said Crawford allegedly had a knife during the fight.
In a letter sent by the university, Chief Kristen Roman told students the various reports of crimes off-campus near where students live are “understandably” concerning. In one instance, a 17-year-old boy was shot and killed over two weeks ago in a drive-by shooting on Lathrop Street, near Camp Randall.
Madison Police Department officers arrested a 27-year-old man Tuesday after he was suspected of burglarizing a sorority house on the University of Wisconsin- Madison campus.
The UW-Madison police department says freshman Loyal Crawford, who was dismissed from the Badgers football team on Tuesday, was involved in a fight and cited for disorderly conduct.
About 15 minutes before a 17-year-old Madison high schooler was killed in a drive-by shooting at a student rental on the Near West Side Aug. 14, Madison police got a call about a loud backyard party at the property near Camp Randall.
UW-Madison students who experienced a sexual assault had one place to go in Dane County for a forensic exam, or what’s traditionally known as a rape kit: the emergency room at UnityPoint Health-Meriter Hospital.
A 17-year-old Madison high school student was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting outside a large party late Saturday night at a residence near Camp Randall stadium, police said.
The UW-Madison Police Department has created an online tool to analyze how well its policing practices serve the campus community — students of color, in particular — and also identify where the department falls short.
David Kahl, the man charged with killing a University of Wisconsin-Madison student in 2008, has entered a not guilty plea.
David A. Kahl is accused of first-degree intentional homicide in the death of 21-year-old Brittany Zimmermann, who investigators say was stabbed and strangled. The 21-year-old from Marshfield was studying Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the time.
A single vehicle was involved, and officers found it off the road, on its roof. According to a report, the car seemed to have flipped multiple times. Officers say the driver was headed east when they lost control at a curve in the road.
One person died, and the teenage driver and other teenage passengers were taken to the hospital after a vehicle rolled Friday night.
One of the four passengers was ejected and pronounced dead at the scene. The driver and three other passengers, all of whom were in their teens, were transported to a local hospital and later released.
UW-Madison Police Department officers were called around 9:45 p.m. for a crash on Lake Mendota Drive near Frautschi Point, police said in a statement. The vehicle appeared to have flipped several times and had come to a rest on its roof, police said.
Quoted: Ryan Poe-Gavlinski is clinical director of the Victims of Crimes Act Restraining Order Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She said creating a lifetime protective order would put survivors of assault “in the driver’s seat.”
“If someone has committed sexual assault and that’s been determined, either at the (civil) restraining order level or through a criminal court, there’s no reason that that perpetrator needs to have contact with that victim going forward,” Poe-Gavlinksi said.
A man charged more than a year ago with the 2008 killing of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann was ordered Thursday to stand trial after a judge ruled prosecutors had presented enough evidence to show probable cause he is responsible.
A Dane County judge says there is enough evidence to move forward in the case of the man accused in the 2008 murder of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann.
The man accused in the 2008 killing of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann was found competent to face charges Thursday.
A former NFL player and University of Wisconsin football star is accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a young girl.
The 44-year-old was arraigned on Monday in State District Court in Duluth after a warrant was issued for his arrest on June 8. Burke, who lives in Rice Lake, Wisconsin waived extradition to Minnesota after being arrested in Douglas County.
First reported by Duluth News Tribune, 44-year-old Tom Burke was arraigned Monday on one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Kevin S. Cassidy, 20, of Marshfield, and Judson T. Rikkers, 19, of Madison, were each charged with misdemeanor criminal damage to property. A criminal complaint alleges Rikkers stomped on the vehicle’s windshield and broke it, and Cassidy is alleged to have climbed onto the car and damaged the windshield wipers and hood.
According to a Madison Police Department incident report, the victim of the attack was hospitalized after the incident, which happened June 2.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison football player accused of killing two women had his trial date set on Monday in a Rock County circuit court. According to court documents, Marcus Randle El will appear on trial at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 7, 2022.
“I have given everything I have to this community during the pandemic,” Hartman wrote on Twitter. “My family deserved better.”
A representative of the Dane County District Attorney’s Office originally said Mills would appear in court on charges last week, but the view of his actions changed.”All of his cases were declined (for prosecution),” representative Alexandra Fischer says.
When Laura L. Dunn was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, two of her crew teammates sexually assaulted her after she’d gotten drunk at a fraternity party, she said. Dunn didn’t know where to find support, how to get a rape kit done, or how to report it to the university.
Investigators note the statue of the University of Wisconsin mascot, which stood in front of the shopping center’s management offices, weighs several hundred pounds, so they suspect more than one person was involved.
Kouki brands the police representations as “accusations” only but declines to offer specifics on each of the alleged encounters.
The UW Police Department is raising awareness for childhood cancer and officers are doing it, by shaving their heads.
Not all heroes wear capes — some shave their heads instead.That’s what these folks did today in support of the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. Five UW police officers as well as some student athletes shaved their heads to raise awareness and much-needed funds for pediatric cancer.
UW said an engineering review found potential structural concerns in the northwest part of the building, requiring immediate attention. UW specified that an expansion joint located on the 6th floor of the building had failed, making it unsafe.
Madison police have arrested a UW-Madison graduate student accused of multiple sexual assaults, including one that allegedly took place on campus last weekend, authorities reported.
A suspect in recent trespassing and thefts on the UW-Madison campus is a registered sex offender who was released from a Wisconsin jail days before the alleged campus crimes.
AMadison man was convicted Tuesday of the rape of a woman who was walking last year near the UW-Madison campus when she was attacked by a stranger.
University officials sent out a WiscAlert via Twitter saying the gas leak was located near Observatory Drive between North Charter Street and Babcock Drive.
Police have not located the unknown male suspect.
