Category: Crime and safety

The first robbery happened around 5:30 p.m. Friday at a McDonald’s restaurant on the 1100 block of Regent Street.

UWPD says 25 percent of its sworn staff are female. While it is higher than the national average of 12.5 percent, Chief Kristen Roman said that is “not a good enough number.”

The robberies, which happened last Friday evening, prompted university officials to send out an alert asking the public to avoid the area. The suspect has since been identified as a 42-year-old man.

Scott C. Tolliver was arrested on charges of armed robbery, felony bail jumping.

The suspect, Riley Jensen, is from Green Bay, Wis. Jensen was booked into Dane County Jail and is currently awaiting charges.

Jensen has no affiliated with UW, according to UWPD.

The Madison Police Department continues investigating a pair of armed robberies around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Friday night. As the police search for answers, students on campus share what the weekend was like following the two incidents.

A Middleton police officer’s training — and being in the right place at the right time — are being credited with saving the life of a UW-Madison exchange student.

Livestreaming was not allowed at the hearing and both sides requested it be prevented during the trial.

A trial is set for a 55-year-old man charged with allegedly killing a University of Wisconsin- Madison student in 2008, according to updated court records Tuesday.

Crews were sent to the George L. Mosse Humanities Building just before 5 p.m. Officials said the person had attempted to leave the elevator with a pushcart on the sixth floor, but the doors closed suddenly on the cart and descended to the second floor.

Rumors have spread across campus that these incidents are part of a sex trafficking scheme using Apple AirTags, but the campus police denies these statements.

’At this point, we have not located any AirTags on victims,’ UWPD Director of Communications says.

A jury Tuesday found a UW-Madison student not guilty of causing criminal property damage during the mayhem of vandalism at the annual Mifflin Street Block Party in April.

Liberty Defense partners with UWPD to offer cutting edge security technology on campus.

On early Sunday morning, UWPD officers responded to a report of a sexual assault and identified the suspect as Maxwell D. Sanders, 19, of Omaha, Neb. He is not affiliated with the university.

According to UWPD’s crime warning, the burglaries took place between Jan. 18 and Jan. 27 at 30 N. Mills St. — the Physical Plant building — and 21 N. Park St. — the UW Administration building.

Police said the suspect, a 19-year-old male from Omaha, Nebraska had been invited to the residence hall by a friend. While there, the suspect allegedly “inappropriately touched” another resident before trying to enter another residence hall room.

The trial for a former Badgers football player who’s charged with killing two women in early 2020 has been delayed until late summer. Marcus Randle-El is charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and two weapons-related charges, according to online court records.

Apple AirTags are a convenient way to keep track of personal property, but UW Police say they can also be a safety risk. According to police, the tags can be used for stalking.

According to police officers on scene, Chamberlin Hall, Sewell Social Sciences, Van Vleck, Ingraham Hall and Bascom Hall were all evacuated but are now cleared and reopened.

A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of third-degree sexual assault on campus last week has a harassment history dating back not just the last few months in Wisconsin, but also stretching into last year in Rhode Island.

Court records show a person with the same name, age and address as Perkins has previously been charged in two other sexual incidents in Dane County in the last four months.

The suspect, Robin Perkins, has since been released from jail and the UW Police Department indicated he likely returned to the Eagle Heights community.

UWPD Chief Kristen Roman said the unique tool is the result of collaboration between the community and stakeholders.

UWPD Communications Director Marc Lovicott said the department received a phone call from a victim early Tuesday morning informing them that an assault had occurred.

The most well-known Camp Randall tradition isn’t singing “Build Me Up Buttercup”, or jumping around — it’s Bucky Jail, the colloquial name for Camp Randall’s Police Center.

Twelve people were arrested at Wisconsin’s Senior Day game Saturday against Nebraska.

Of the 45 ejected, 28 were UW students, and of the 12 arrested, eight were UW students, police said in a statement.

Alex Lehmkuhl says the incident happened just after 2 a.m. Nov. 1 in downtown Madison near the corner of Main and Bedford Streets.

UW Police are searching for a man they say stole a wallet from a golf bag at University Ridge Golf Course.

A PhD student, who asked to remain anonymous, told Madison365 in an interview Wednesday that he was walking near the Nicholas Recreation Center on October 16 when a man swatted his phone out of his hand from behind, shattering the phone screen on the ground. At first, he assumed it was accidental, but said when he turned, a man called him an ethnic slur and seemed ready to fight. He was able to pick up his phone and leave the scene, and called police from his apartment.

A Madison man now faces multiple charges, including disorderly conduct, following what UW-Madison Police called a hate crime incident on campus last month.

A Madison man faces hate crime allegations following a mid-October confrontation near the Nicholas Recreation Center, on the UW-Madison campus.

This hate crime, one of several racially-charged incidents against Asian campus community members within the last year, reflects a surge of on-campus incidents since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

At about 6:45 p.m. on Oct. 16, a UW student of Asian descent was walking home from the Nicholas Recreation Center when a man approached him. A UWPD report said that 34-year-old Gary Stephens of Madison slapped the victim’s phone from his hand without being provoked, smashing it on the ground. Stephens uttered a racial slur to the student, according to the report.

It was an eventful Homecoming on UW Madison’s campus for both students and campus police.According to the UW-Madison Police Department, officers issued a total of 11 citations. Nine of them were for underage alcohol use.

0 people were arrested, including eight UW students during the Badgers’ win over Iowa. UW-Madison Police said 11 citations were issued, including nine for underage alcohol use.

At roughly five minutes to one, a white sedan with a broken right headlight sped through the intersection of East Campus Mall and University Ave., pursued by a police vehicle. The driver was continually honking as he drove through the intersection in the bus lane. The car then turned onto Lake St., only to come back down University driving against traffic minutes later.