Category: Crime and safety

UWPD still looking for potential third suspect for 21 graffiti incidents.

UW-Madison Police say they have finally caught two young men who confessed to 21 separate graffiti taggings made across campus over the last six months.

A 37-year-old Footville man is being called a ‘serial burglar’ after being linked to more than 20 burglaries, including the theft of musical instruments over Thanksgiving weekend at the University of Wisconsin.

With warmer weather drawing a growing number of people to outdoor gathering spots, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has adopted a new order to ensure public safety through physical distancing and related public health measures as campus prepares to reopen.

The University of Wisconsin has erected temporary fencing to close off the Memorial Union Terrace and adjacent lakefront areas, including the piers, as hundreds of people have gathered in recent days in defiance of a county-wide order prohibiting large groups.

New order to halt spread, ensure social distancing on campus.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has adopted a new order ahead of the campus’ reopening that enforces physical distancing and other public health measures.

UW-Madison has issued a new order that will limit access to popular places on campus. It’s part of an effort to keep people safe during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Man described as white, in 30s, with heavy build.

New rules narrow definition of harassment, include schools in legal process.

As expected, Mifflin Street in Madison was empty after the annual block party there was canceled due to COVID-19 concerns.

The virtual #StayHome Party 2020 will take place April 25 from 8 a.m.- 6 p.m.

MPD will issue citations to non-residents, report UW students to Dean of Students.

“While MPD has historically taken a fairly tolerant view of the Mifflin Street Block Party, this year is different,” MPD Chief Vic Wahl said referring to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Basically the whole campus comes down and has a good time.” Mifflin Street resident and UW-Madison Junior Chris Gilbertson said. “I think that the precautions that they’re taking are unfortunate, but it’s necessary.”

As ABC News report, a Wisconsin judge has determined there is enough evidence to proceed with charges against Khari Sanford and Ali’Jah Larrue, both 18, for the shooting deaths of Dr. Beth Potter and her husband Robert Carre, who were found with gunshot wounds to the head in an arboretum at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on March 31. Carre was pronounced dead at the scene, and Potter survived for about an hour at a hospital before she too died.

Khari Sanford and Ali’jah Larrue, both 18, are accused of murdering university doctor Beth Potter, 52, and her husband, Robin Carre, 57, who were both found shot in the back of the head.

Dane County prosecutors believe the deaths of a physician and her husband may have been the result of a conflict with their daughter’s boyfriend brought on by a disagreement over social distancing.

Potter, a doctor at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, had a higher risk of infection due to medications she was taking, the complaint said

Two Wisconsin teens were formally charged Wednesday for their alleged roles in killing a University of Wisconsin professor Dr. Beth Potter and her husband Robin Carre.

Beth Potter, a University of Wisconsin physician and associate professor Robin Carre, an independent education consultant, were found murdered in near the Wisconsin Arboretum. Their bodies were found lying in a ditch on March 31. According to the police, both were shot in their head and on their backs.

Police would not comment on Sanford’s relationship with Mimi. ’All we can say at the minute is that he had a connection to the family,’ University of Wisconsin Police spokesman Marc Lovicott told DailyMail.com.

Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the double homicide of a University of Wisconsin doctor and her husband.

University of Wisconsin-Madison police investigators were working Thursday to determine why a respected physician and her husband were targeted and killed.

The 18-year-old man arrested in the slayings of a University of Wisconsin physician and her husband is known to the family, police said Friday.

Police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Ali’jah J. Larrue, 18, was booked on two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the killings of Dr. Beth Potter and Robin Carre.

A second arrest was made by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department in the double homicide at the UW Arboretum.

Shepler and almost her entire family had been seeing Dr. Beth Potter for decades. She says she can’t wrap her head around what happened Tuesday morning.

Ali’jah Jawuan Larrue, 18, was arrested by the UW Madison Police Department at 11:19 p.m. and was booked at the Dane County Safety Building on Saturday morning at 2:21 a.m., according to the Dane County Sheriff’s Office.

Potter, 52, and Carre, 57, were found dead Tuesday in the University of Wisconsin arboretum, a research and popular recreational area several miles from the Madison campus that includes more than 1,200 acres (486 hectares) of forests and prairies.

Dane County Sheriff records show Khari Sanford, 18, was booked into jail early Friday morning by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department on a tentative first degree intentional homicide charge.

Dane County Sheriff’s records show 18-year old Khari Sanford was booked into the county jail Friday on the tentative charge of first degree intentional homicide.

It’s just a tragedy. I think we’re all trying to wrap our minds around it. There are no words,” Dr. Melissa Stiles, UW Health Family Medicine, tells NBC15 News via a phone interview.

The department did not identify the suspect and said it planned to release more information about the arrest later in the day.

A University of Wisconsin doctor and her husband were killed Tuesday in an apparent homicide, police said.

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Two people were discovered in a ditch at the University of Wisconsin, Madison’s arboretum early on Tuesday morning. Both have died.

“We’re working to figure out exactly what happened to them. We’re canvassing the neighborhood as we speak talking to people who live here seeing if they heard something or saw something,” said UWPD Spokesperson Marc Lovicott.

The officers detained the suspect shortly thereafter and he was again taken into custody, UWPD continued. No injuries were reported.

Officials say the 911 call came in at about 6:30 Tuesday morning, when the jogger found a man and woman in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum ditch.

Two officers with the Fitchburg Police Department were transporting a man to the hospital for treatment and evaluation when the man tried to disarm an officer, said UWPD spokesman, Marc Lovicott.

UW-Madison Police Department Communications Director Marc Lovicott said a jogger called police around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday to report finding two people in the ditch on the side of a path near Wingra Drive. The man was pronounced dead on scene, while the woman died after being transported to a hospital.

“Students will be able to pursue a Title IX suit in the event that a university fails to act appropriately,” DAIS executive director said.

A new multiple day law enforcement youth academy is coming to UW-Madison this summer. UW-Madison Police Department announced the program on Friday.