Category: Crime and safety

Police found $13,000 in fake cash during his arrest.

A 26-year-old Madison man reportedly had thousands of dollars in counterfeit cash on him Tuesday when he was arrested for allegedly spending it on the University of Wisconsin campus. According to the UW Police Dept., Ishmael Riley spent the funny money at least three times on the campus. Police did not indicate if they have found evidence of him trying to pass it off-campus.

A Madison resident was arrested Tuesday after committing three counts of fraud, using counterfeit money during each incident. Over $13,000 in counterfeit money was later located in the suspect’s possession, said University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department Director of Communications Marc Lovicott.

The UW-Madison Police Department is actively investigating these incidents.

Suspect is in custody, there is no continued threat to community, Mayor Rhodes-Conway says.

A Madison police officer was injured by gunshots during an attempted arrest early Sunday morning, according to the City of Madison Police Department. It is the first incident in over 20 years that a MPD officer has been shot in the line of duty.

Wisconsin’s home football game against Michigan Saturday saw an increase in game ejections, ambulance calls and arrests across the season. A high of 50 people were ejected from the game, but only 33 were University of Wisconsin-Madison students.

“Only a fairly small number of students who experience an assault request a formal investigation,” said UW’s Title IX Coordinator Laurn Hasselbacher, JD. “In the vast majority of cases, the Title IX office does not press for students to file formal complaints in order to respect personal choice and autonomy.”

The officers are stationed between Charter and Mills streets.

UWPD began a weeklong enforcement campaign Tuesday along University Avenue, one of the busiest streets on campus. Community officer Jake Lepper said the problem is focused in the block between the Charter and Mills Street intersections, where there is a lot of construction.

Illegally entering the street is dangerous for both motorists and pedestrians, but some students see it as the only option due to construction on the corner of University Avenue and Charter Street that currently blocks students from using a portion of sidewalk.

“I’m extremely dismayed to see UWPD taking such an aggressive approach to a design problem,” said Tyler Katzenberger, the ASM press office director. “Their increased presence is especially harmful for Black and Indigenous students who are more likely to be stopped, fined, and possibly even assaulted.”

UWPD began a weeklong enforcement campaign Tuesday along University Avenue, one of the busiest streets on campus. Community officer Jake Lepper said the problem is focused in the block between the Charter and Mills Street intersections, where there is a lot of construction.

University of Wisconsin-Madison students caught illegally crossing the street could get warnings or fines.

A sexual assault reportedly happened Sunday in a southeast residence hall on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to a crime warning sent to students.

The university has not released the exact location of the sexual assault reported on campus; however, a crime warning sent to students today said it took place in a southeast residence hall.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.